Cesar | Creator & Builder

I build apps, test content ideas, and share what works. Based in the RGV.

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

@JohnWardHere It’s rented traffic… it’s all good until landlord evicts

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

Handle checks out

[george @idobadtakes]

Assuming you drive like 15 miles a day and get 25 mpg, you spend $50 / month on gas at $3/gallon and $100 / month on gas at $6/gallon. I get it’s not ideal but that doesn’t seem like a crippling increase

Idk maybe I’m out of touch

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

I don’t care how many hours it takes…
AI should solve the robocall problem we have in the U.S.

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

Caption controls on one side. Full preview on the other.

Devs, what would you change about your app if you had this much room to work with?

Just a concept for now.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

UPS has banned its drivers from turning left since 2004. The company says the rule saves 10 million gallons of fuel a year and let it pull 1,100 trucks off the road. The same logic is why this intersection needs zero lights.

The left turn is the villain of the entire road system.

A normal four-way intersection has 32 points where two cars can hit each other. Sixteen of them sit inside the box, and every one of those is a crossing conflict, the kind that produces a T-bone at 45 mph. Twelve of the sixteen involve someone turning left across oncoming traffic.

Delete the left turn and the count drops from 32 to 14. Crossing conflicts fall 87%.

That is what the loops in this design are doing. Nobody turns left. You turn right, drive a few hundred feet, U-turn through the median, and come back to the road you wanted. Three gentle merges replace one gamble against oncoming cars.

Michigan has been building these since the late 1960s, which is why engineers call it the Michigan Left. Minnesota put its first one in Willmar and went three years without a single fatal or serious injury crash. Across the states that adopted the design, injury and fatal crashes fell 54%.

The render skips the cost. Every crossing driver goes farther, and those U-turn loops eat land, which is why you find these on wide rural highways and almost never downtown. Minnesota's math is that it can build 10 to 20 of them for the price of one overpass.

Traffic lights exist to referee left turns. Take the left turn away and the referee has nothing to do.

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

The frustrating part about Facebook monetization is that more views do not always mean proportionally more money.
Two posts can reach a similar number of people and produce completely different results.

What has been the most unpredictable part of Facebook monetization for you

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

Facebook monetization has changed how I look at views.

Did it gain followers?
Did people come back?
Can any part of it be repeated?
One big day is not momentum unless you understand what caused it.

If you monetize on Facebook, which metric do you pay attention to most?

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

This is why I’m paying attention to Facebook right now.

Daily views have ranged from around 100k to nearly 1 million.

Getting attention is clearly possible. The real question is how much of that attention turns into revenue.

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

@creedFi @layers Creed, I’ve tested a few things around reducing sign-up friction. Most of my experience has been with web apps, but I’m transitioning into mobile apps now.

I’m curious to see how much of what worked on the web carries over.

[Cesar | Creator & Builder @builtbycesar]

Getting an app onto the App Store made me want to take building more seriously.

I’m also experimenting with YouTube and Facebook monetization, so I’ll share what I try, what works, what flops, and the actual results.

There’s a lot I want to build. Time to get moving.