caelum

22 building ai apps

[caelum @caelum0x42]

I’m pleased to announce that I’m joining @AnthropicAI
jk they just sent me this cap.
(If anyone from Anthropic is seeing this — you can actually hire me, or throw a Claude Code grant / open-source support my way. The merch already worked. Thanks.)

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Menivor is live on Product Hunt today.

Paste a link, get vertical reels with AI voiceover and word-by-word captions. 3 reels free, no card.

Would love blunt feedback from anyone making short-form video:
https://t.co/iM82C8XUGD

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Let the agent break a branch that expires, not production.

A preview is a sanitized copy of production, with its own URL, keys and database, and a time to live. You approve the merge. That is when production changes.

https://t.co/pgTEzjC7yM

[caelum @caelum0x42]

@caelum0x4 we need help

[Menivor @menivorhq]

can you guys help me us out about these we need help on distribution

[caelum @caelum0x42]

How we make launch videos for our products with almost no budget:

1. Playwright records the real product, no mockups
2. Headless Chrome draws every frame from code
3. Deepgram voices the script
4. Whisper times the captions word by word
5. FFmpeg cuts, mixes and normalizes the sound

Menivor makes this kind of reel from a product link: https://t.co/tY725N0ltR

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Scribase launch recap: good views on X, very few upvotes on Product Hunt.

Lesson learned. Attention on X doesn't turn into votes somewhere else on its own.

So I'm going to keep launching, again and again, until it sticks.

Founders who've done this: where did your launch actually land? Product Hunt, Hacker News, Reddit, Peerlist, DevHunt, Uneed, something else? Drop your best spot below.

[caelum @caelum0x42]

I highly recommend giving a shot https://t.co/v8XgloVRME

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Have you tried scribase ?

[caelum @caelum0x42]

New in Scribase Mail: SMTP.

Anything that can send through SMTP (Supabase auth, WordPress, your old app) can now use https://t.co/FpqQDAA1Py on 465/587 with an API key as the password.

Same account, same dashboard as the API.
https://t.co/nobgCRlDVi

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Building something that sends email (signups, receipts, magic links)?

Drop what you're building below.

Shipped my own email API this week: https://t.co/nobgCRlDVi

[caelum @caelum0x42]

What one Scribase account replaces:

- Supabase (Postgres + auth)
- Neon (branching)
- Clerk (login)
- Resend (email, new this week)

One dashboard, one bill.

https://t.co/v8XgloVRME

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Got hidden on GitHub the night before a launch. Every link in my launch copy went dead.

Launched anyway, from my own domain.

If your whole public footprint lives on one platform, fix that this week, not after it happens.

[caelum @caelum0x42]

4 ways I pick what to build next across several small products instead of one big one:
1. Read what people already search for, don't invent the need
2. Check if an open-source project already solves most of it
3. Ship the smallest real version, not a prototype
4. Only go deeper after someone besides me uses it weekly

Bidstage came from #1: companies already search government tender sites daily, across the EU, UK, US, Canada and the World Bank. https://t.co/p9WdKOXEQr

[caelum @caelum0x42]

This page. That reel.

Paste a product link into Menivor and get three vertical reels: hook, voice and captions done for you.

https://t.co/RzkE19zY8L

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Day 2 of GitHub hiding my account.

No human has contacted me. No reason in my inbox. No timeline. The appeal form says "don't submit duplicates", so all I can do is wait while every link to my work stays dead.

If you work at GitHub and can look at an appeal, I'd really appreciate it.

[caelum @caelum0x42]

Bidstage is live on Product Hunt today.

It reads your company's website and matches you to live, open government tenders across 70 countries, instead of you searching portal by portal.

Feedback welcome:
https://t.co/zQnU44WVKw

[Menivor @menivorhq]

Launch day lesson so far: shipping the product was the easy part.

Getting people to actually look at it is the real work.

If you've launched on Product Hunt before, what's the one thing you'd do differently?

[caelum @caelum0x42]

@caelum0x4 https://t.co/rN5VHkzlYG

[caelum @caelum0x42]

https://t.co/rN5VHkyO98

[Menivor @menivorhq]

Launch day check-in.

Scribase is out there, the coffee is strong, and I'm answering every reply today.

Ask me anything about building a backend you can spin up in one command.

[caelum @caelum0x42]

@caelum0x4 https://t.co/rN5VHkyO98