Dav

Moved from Spain 🇮🇨 to Tokyo 🇯🇵 to follow my dreams
Now going indie to build my own
9-5: BE Engineer @ JP Fintech
5-9: Working on

[Dav @davafons]

Today is my Day 0 of #buildinpublic and I have 1 year to make it or break it 🔥

3 years ago I landed in Tokyo with nothing but a backpack and my employment contract. No connections. Completely alone.

But after countless oncall nights at work and studying Japanese every single day... I finally applied for Permanent Residency!!!! 🇯🇵

It takes 1 year for the results to arrive. But getting it would mean true freedom, no longer tied to an employer. And the chance to finally chase my lifelong dream: traveling through all 47 prefectures of Japan while working on my own apps.

So until then, I need to prove to myself that I can turn my projects into something real that people will want to use (and pay for).

Incidentally, this week @jackfriks and @marclou launched @shipordie_ , and it really felt like the universe telling me to stop overthinking and start shipping already. So now's the moment.

The projects I'm building are aimed at Japanese audiences, so I'll be sharing what happens when marketing to a completely different culture from what you usually see on English Twitter.

I'll also share cool cafes, coworking spaces, and bits of my life here ☕️ (if you visit, hit me up for a coffee!)

This journey starts now. Whatever happens, I'm ready for it 🙂

Time to build, crew!!!

[Dav @davafons]

The vibe was incredible though. I even met a Japanese guy that had the t-shirt and flag from my hometown football club lol, what are the chances 🇮🇨

[Dav @davafons]

Paying the price of watching the World Cup finals last night 💀

[Dav @davafons]

Escaped from the Europoor to become Japanpoorer 🙃

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Japanese Yen collapses to its weakest level versus the US Dollar since 1986.

[Dav @davafons]

@ninja_padrino Man I love that place too! Ebisu is spoiled for choice with pizza spots.

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele on the other side of the station is another great one, I go there all the time.

[Dav @davafons]

@AlexCommitter I feel like it's been more persistent about adding itself to the commit descriptions lately

[Dav @davafons]

This mf really put himself above me in the contributor list

[Dav @davafons]

This mf really put himself above me in the contributor list

[Dav @davafons]

@yusukelp Thank you!! I will start posting more updates here soon

[Dav @davafons]

I shipped my first project a few weeks ago.

But I must be a masochist because I'm putting myself back into risk of DYING again 😶

Last project, marketing was an afterthought and it showed.

Not this time. I'm building something in a community where I've been contributing to for more than 4 years and where the domain experience I have will be a key factor. And I have 1000 ideas on how to market it later.

See you in 30 days 👀

[SHIP OR DIE @shipordie_]

Top builders by commits in the last 24 hours:

🥇 @davafons — 51 commits
🥈 @gvkhna — 31 commits
🥉 @kylekane — 30 commits
4. @fidel_ecco — 30 commits
5. @tris_does_stuff — 28 commits
6. @tarasshyn — 25 commits
7. @gkotte1 — 20 commits
8. @serhii_klym — 20 commits
9. @ranga_builds — 17 commits
10. @nishantrarora — 17 commits

Next board drops tomorrow at 2 PM UTC.

[Dav @davafons]

So it was a bug and it got resolved after a few hours.

But it made me realize how bad customer support for Claude is.

After 15min searching I found a support page with an online chat. And 10 minutes of fighting with the AI chatbot later they finally passed my request to a human.

But the response never came. They just told me "you will receive an email when a human reviews this inquiry" and that email hasn't arrived yet.

You would expect something better when you're paying $100

[Dav @davafons]

wtf I hit the usage limit, wait until the reset, and on the next message it says that I hit the usage limit again 🫤

[Dav @davafons]

When my manager gives me only a 2% salary raise during my performance review

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

🚨 New SoftBank Deck

I'm calling it now. This is another one of the all-time greats

[Dav @davafons]

Two typhoons and we just had another earthquake a few mins ago (there has been like once a day this week)

What's going to happen tomorrow 💀

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Two typhoons will hit Japan at the same spot and at the same time, on Saturday evening. If you are traveling in Japan this weekend it might be best to cancel any plans and sit these two out. Either they will deflect one another, merge, or one will deflect and one keep going.

[Dav @davafons]

wtf I hit the usage limit, wait until the reset, and on the next message it says that I hit the usage limit again 🫤

[Dav @davafons]

Every builder needs to watch this show.

A story about people risking everything to follow their instinct, their passion, while searching for the truth of the world and their own identity.

Perseverance even when the whole world is against you.

I know everybody here would relate. Such a goated show.

[Dav @davafons]

gf and I like to go on night walks especially now that summer nights in Tokyo are chill and breezy.

She tried an app that gives you a random location within X km and you have to find your way using just the compass and it was really fun!!

The destination ended up being a small childs park lol so nothing special. But we passed many streets we had never before and a university campus with their own shrine inside. So it was a small adventure in itself.

I can see something like this w/ more social features becoming an interesting app 🤔

[Dav @davafons]

@woocassh Global sim providers sometimes route your traffic through Hong Kong sadly 🫠

[Dav @davafons]

@danieldwalton Thank you!! SEO is a really slow path tho 😅

[Dav @davafons]

Small SEO victory! Recently also I got wariwari up to 10 DR

I was feeling really lost because it takes FOREVER for backlinks and traffic to index and give you feedback if you are doing things correctly or not, but it's starting to catch up

We keep going 👀

[SHIP OR DIE @shipordie_]

New trophy unlocked 🏆

@davafons earned Search Signal: Reach 100 Google Search impressions.
Trophy #5 in their pirate chest.

[Yusuke @yusukelp]

https://t.co/wVSmFooua6

[Dav @davafons]

@bas_fijneman Looks incredible, looking forward to test it 👀