Alejandro Medina

Building and

[Nerdzoic @nerdzoic]

RESTOCK ALERT! Is this the best Batman figure ever? MAFEX Batman Hush #105 is officially IN STOCK! https://t.co/7w8mzzn7IF

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

@NapierHolland https://t.co/0hzCllY0DW 👀👀

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

@NapierHolland Not yet. I collect mostly Mafex, and Marvel Legends, but my current favorite is this cool 1000toys Hellboy

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

IndieHackers has become an echo chamber of bots talking with bots

https://t.co/j1i8YUADEu

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

Building the home for the biggest collectors community → https://t.co/ivMzEduvYF

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

Shipped a fix today that makes Weekly Challenges more reliable: liking a submission now works end to end, including the notification that tells the creator someone engaged with their entry.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

What's next: with the like + notify path solid, the groundwork is in place to build richer engagement on challenges like comment notifications, winner announcements, and surfacing trending submissions in real time.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

26 challenges already queued, one per week, auto-start Monday, auto-close Sunday.

Collectors vote on each other's photos every week, have conversations, and praise other collectors' shots. I love it.

https://t.co/ivMzEduvYF

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

A user asked for photo challenges on Legendsverse the other day, funny enough, the feature has been sitting in my head for weeks.

I shipped it 35 minutes ago.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

The part I actually like: submitting a photo auto-creates a Gallery + one Display per pic.

So every challenge entry also lives in your collection profile forever.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

If you want to send Marketing emails through your own SES cheaply and easily:

https://t.co/mcCcMFbGVW

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

I wanted to test BYOMailer end-to-end locally with real SES.

An env flag let me switch between a local mailer and SES, which covered rendering and basics (filters, variables, unsubscribe links), but not real SES events (opens, bounces, complaints) and not bulk sends at all.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

The best part is the AWS bill.

SQS first 1M req/mo free. SNS first 1M publishes free. SES simulator addresses (`[email protected]` etc) are free and don't dent your sender reputation.

a dev env that mirrors prod, for zero dollars.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

I wish there was an accountability marketing claude skill that would tell me what marketing work to put every day.

[Alejandro Medina @amedina_dev]

So many tokens, so little marketing