Boyd BcodeCraft

Day-job dev → indie hacker (in progress)
Talking to devs before building anything this time
Web games • Interactive tools • #buildinpublic

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

I'm a web game dev starting my indie hacker journey.

My first SaaS died — built for 6 months, 0 customers.

This time: talk to people first, build later.

Following along? I'll share everything I learn.

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

"Vibe coding cleanup" is now a service category.

7+ companies. $150-250/hr.
To fix code that AI wrote for free.

The cleanup industry is the real AI business model.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@coscosmico Thanks! The hardest part wasn't the failure — it was resisting the urge to immediately start building the next thing without talking to anyone. Old habits die hard 😅

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

I'm a web game dev starting my indie hacker journey.

My first SaaS died — built for 6 months, 0 customers.

This time: talk to people first, build later.

Following along? I'll share everything I learn.

#buildinpublic #indiehackers

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Google announced AI Studio → Cloud Run today.
Turns out Anthropic has been quietly building the same thing.
Every AI company is becoming a hosting platform.

[AprilNEA @AprilNEA]

🧵 I just reverse-engineered the binaries inside Claude Code's Firecracker MicroVM and found something wild:

Anthropic is building their own PaaS platform called "Antspace" (Ants + Space).

It's a full deployment pipeline — hidden in plain sight inside the environment-runner binary. Here's what I found 👇

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@GoogleAIStudio "persistent builds" is just Google's way of saying "we finally added a save button" 💀

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Spent a week validating a dev tool idea. 4 devs confirmed the pain. 0 willing to pay.
All said "I'd build it myself."
Same week, Google ships "vibe design."
In 2026, the hard part isn't building. It's getting anyone to care.

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner.

Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate:
🎨 AI-Native Canvas
🧠 Smarter Design Agent
🎙️ Voice
⚡️ Instant Prototypes
📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md

Rolling out now. Details and product walkthrough video in 🧵

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@Phoneeeeeeee3e not gonna lie, Claude wrote the README. I just shipped it 🚀🤫

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Built a 3D solar system while my SaaS idea is stuck in customer discovery
Three.js + React Three Fiber + Next.js
Sometimes you just need to ship something that definitely works 🪐
Demo: https://t.co/8NGtOTyWXz
GitHub: https://t.co/dyj14r3WE1
#threejs #buildinpublic

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@superscribeio dotfiles reorganization is still valid productivity imo

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Hotjar can tell you where users clicked on your landing page. It cannot tell you where players died in your HTML5 game. Canvas = blank rectangle to every analytics tool.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@sotoalt_ You're probably right. AI handles creation well now. What it can't do is observe runtime — debugging state, tracking player behavior. That's what I'm exploring next.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Three.js has 4M+ weekly downloads. It still has no proper visual editor.
That's either a massive gap — or a lesson that devs don't pay for tools.
Been talking to Three.js devs this week to find out which one."

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@thefrontendcat You're right, tools exist. What I'm finding from talking to devs is the real gap isn't editors — it's observability. How do you debug state across systems or track where players get stuck in a canvas game?

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Claude Code on macOS: close the session, CPU still cooking. 🔥

Zombie processes. Still running. Still eating your cores.

One-liner fix:
alias killclaude='pkill -f claude'

Add to ~/.zshrc, source it, done.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Honestly didn't expect this to work this well.

Set up some AI agents to scan Reddit for
pain points while I sleep.

Woke up this morning with 5 actual complaints
from indie devs I can go validate today.

Zero code written. Just prompt engineering.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

1M context window = finally enough space to fit
my spaghetti codebase AND my regrets

[Claude @claudeai]

1 million context window: Now generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@claudeai 1M context window = finally enough space to fit
my spaghetti codebase AND my regrets

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@perplexity_ai As someone who just killed an AI SaaS —
this is simultaneously exciting and terrifying 😅

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@mshenshz 100%. The hard part isn't learning the lesson —
it's actually doing it when you're excited about
an idea and just want to start coding.

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

@arikimir1 An AI caption generator for social media.
Classic wrapper — no moat, anyone could rebuild
it with ChatGPT.

Built everything before asking if anyone would pay.
They wouldn't. 😅

Now doing the opposite — just talking to devs first.

What was yours?

[Boyd BcodeCraft @bcodecraft]

Cloudflare just dropped /crawl — crawl any website with a single API call.
The same company that sells Bot Protection.
→ More bots = more people buy protection
→ Easier crawling = more bots
→ Repeat ♻️
Genius. #webdev #cloudflare