Marc Hanson

Engineering lifer → co-founder @ Super Mega Lab. 25+ yrs at Microsoft, Zynga, Netflix IP & places you've never heard of. Building in public from Ohio.

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Bootstrapped founder

Building in public

Looking to connect with:
→ Engineering team leads
→ Indie founders & builders
→ Devs rethinking their workflows in the age of AI
→ People obsessed with how teams share knowledge

Drop a follow, I'll follow back.
#BuildInPublic #IndieHackers

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@andrewmccalip This pisses me off so bad that I didn’t think to do it. Kudos!

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Agentic Bookmarks 0.8.19 is released in Microsoft VSCode extension marketplace and open-vsx for non-MSFT IDEs.

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When you are building your project / coding, do you ever use bookmarks in your IDE (VSCode, Cursor, etc.)? I do, but I found out that I might be in the extreme minority of users.

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@alexwtlf tidbiits -

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Building tidbiits has changed how I interact with long form content (articles, PDFs, video).

Example: 4 hours of @garrytan content broken down into something I can skim, explore, annotate, team share, or chat with (and still watch the parts I want to.)

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I wrote a mildly unhinged blog post 3 months ago griping that my team never watched the 90-minute videos I dropped in Slack.

I have since weaponized that gripe into a product. As one does.

Full journey ↓

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I'm trying to clean up this UI in the Synthesis Lab. The goal is showing connections between topics selected from my library but it feels really noisy right now.

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We are starting to reach out to users on our first product tidbiits. We've been using it since Feb (we created it for ourselves first and foremost and we use it on a daily basis internally.)

Here's a vid showing the global LOD zoom UX and saving off insights for later action.

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@urnotsam Blog post: https://t.co/sWBzxLNCUM

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"AI is a multiplier, not an equalizer." Incumbents got faster too. The moat got deeper.

@urnotsam breaks down what actually works for challengers right now.

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@mumblewumbles @Pirat_Nation Came for this reaction.

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Epic.

[Mike Rundle @flyosity]

--dangerously-skip-permissions

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@JsonBasedman 100% I had this exact conversation with Claude earlier this week and said I wanted a —slightly-less-dangerously-skip-permissions option.

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Blog: https://t.co/ZTXDIWw7Zh

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Context compaction will eat your instructions halfway through a run and Claude will start skipping steps because it literally forgot its own rules.

One of my partners, Sam, wrote a fantastic blog about how we dealt with that and more (and shipped 265 of 266 tickets mostly autonomously last week.)

Full Blog:👇

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@paulg I was just commenting to my partners how the startup school material repeatedly mentions resilience as critical.

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@idosal1 As someone who has worked on a number of successful RTS games and a big fan of AI agents... this is great.

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You know that feeling when the progress is really cranking?

So good.

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I was working on my product and had the realization that the last time anyone argued about curly braces or tabs vs. spaces predates agentic coding adoption. I wonder if builders of the future will never know the bloody carnage of a tabs vs spaces argument.

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@garrytan This is a fascinating journey to watch. It's like the last year or two of my experience fast-forwarded into a couple weeks.

The tools are so good. They are getting better weekly.

What a time to be alive.