Dado

building indie apps + software development + trying to figure out distribution

[Dado @davorb89]

Software developer. New dad. Still have a 9-5.

For some reason I decided this was the ideal time to start building apps on the side.

First up: Milksy, a baby tracking app.

Users: 2
Paying users: 0
Users related to me by marriage: 1

I’m posting the whole thing here. Builds, numbers, distribution, failures, everything.

Follow along. Either I build something cool or we get a fairly detailed postmortem.

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@lenatron33 I have started getting ads for trips to Turkey 🇹🇷

Makes me doubt that my hairline is doing as good as I think it is

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@vipinxtwt @OpenAI

[Boyd @0xBOYD]

1.) Go to https://t.co/WWH6fBzTRi
2.) type “hello”
3.) type “play Minecraft”
4.) watch the agent’s reality implode
5.) ????
6.) PROFIT!

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@olafurpg burns too many tokens

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@larskarls @AlexanderKr är väl inte så mycket mer att säga än att de åker runt lite i cph, och så börjar den köra på cyckelvägen

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@jesoriase @molaerga @grok am i the only one who is too polite/non confrontative to do that 🥺👉👈

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@kamilbaranek_ you guys gain followers?

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@bentlegen I couldn't figure it out either. I tried grok bot and openclaw last night and did a little exploring.

so far: morning brief telling me if anything important popped up in email or calendar. i've also set it to analyse the previous month's bills and recurring subscriptions.

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@adam_bobowski i've got both gpt and claude. right now claude mogs gpt by quite a wide margin.

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@thdxr to be fair, it did generate a lot of buzz for grok bot. instead of everyone talking about dot, grok bot became the thing everyone focused on.

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@MarioSaputra I have 1TB and i'm in the same situation.

oh, brother, it's never enough...

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@Quibbles57 @leostera i'm also a customer. but lately i've been considering moving back to fastmail. i just don't see the point anymore, when openclaw can filter out the weird stuff for me.

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@leostera You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

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@tomhacks @yevgeniy_dev true. and there's not really any incentive to change it.

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@tomhacks @yevgeniy_dev it's happening all over social media. the algorithm just gives people what they won't, so follows are down everywhere. instagram's ceo even said that follows are now don't matter.

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@danielgothits i've had one die on me after barely any use. bought another one a month ago. same model, because there literally aren't any competitors at that price point.

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@tomhacks @yevgeniy_dev i can't bring myself to stoop so low

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Leica can't fix the electronics on my M6 TTL. they simply can't find the parts to replace the board, since they're not being manufactured anymore.

apple would probably be in a similar situation. unless they decided to pay obscene amounts of money to keep outdated factories going.

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@LeoBuilds_ Big corporations for contract reasons. Same reason people signed with ibm back in the day.

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@amix3k What system? Plz don’t say “agents”.

I definitely see a case in having it do maintenance etc. But how do you trust it in prod without checking what it did? There’s no way around human in the loop reviews. At least not with this particular technology.