Grant Ammons

Builder. Running a profitable SaaS ( as solo engineer + fleet of AI agents. Scaled eng at @kit. Headed SRE at @digitalocean. Homelabber.

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@launch_llama https://t.co/ujMHzpkdHx - polished open-source Slack client for the terminal

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@rauchg https://t.co/ujMHzpkdHx - open-source Slack client for the terminal

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

I am absolutely more productive using agents. I don't know the factor but it's large. However much of that productivity is spent tuning the agents and hardening the product. I'm guessing 30%-40%.

Some might consider that a waste; but I don't. The software I'm creating nowadays is vastly more robust than I'd ever been able to create manually.

I don't mean that the code is better. I mean the surrounding tests are vastly better. I have a higher degree of confidence than I ever had manually -- even when I used very disciplined TDD and Acceptance testing.

And then there's the ability to quickly reorganize the modules and the architecture while keeping those robust tests running. That is a tremendous boon.

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

The Kitty graphics protocol renders true-pixel images in your terminal. So slk shows actual Slack avatars and images: pixel data, not blocky ASCII approximations.

This was the moment slk stopped feeling like a half-toy.

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

Slack on my laptop uses 1.5Gb of ram. The TUI I built last week to replace it uses 100Mb. Slack does quite well in the terminal!

Built in seven days with four AI agents running in parallel git worktrees.

https://t.co/Yq0iWhRkhB

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@YashHustle_22 Kubernetes, in my homelab k3s cluster

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@aryanlabde released v0.8 of https://t.co/7vOv1rAoo5 - a slack TUI client I created

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@marckohlbrugge Nice! I too am self-hosting prom/grafana in my homelab k3s cluster for all observability on my side hustle https://t.co/EUkObHI1kE. It's very busy. - anywhere between 3k and 20k ops/s

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@brankopetric00 Start as simple as possible. Monolith / ECS is relatively simple. Maybe there's something even simpler you can do. What is your expected traffic? What's the infra footprint per user?

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@moonfarm_dev https://t.co/EUkObHI1kE - email list validation platform

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@OmarMcAdam 100% missing index. Did I win?

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@Bitwarden you've got a high-profile issue with your chrome extension. It's spamming console debug logs and making web developer's lives miserable. https://t.co/TL9MFNfG1I can we get that fixed ASAP? TY!

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

What do yall use for a chat platform with customers? looking for open source or free ideally. #indiehackers

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@michaelaubry If you're looking to save more, https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6 will validate 500 emails for free.

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@santilli @degentastic @beehiiv You should check out https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6 - I just recently launched it as a solopreneur and will definitely be innovating on it 🙂

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@digiarpit @shushant_l https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6 will validate 500 for free.

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@YatMaxi @iamarkdev You could also automate the checking via https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6's api!

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@wisdom_ldn Reddit! I started replying to relevant conversations in the /r/emailmarketing subreddit and mentioned https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6 🙂

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

🔥BOOM, first sale after months of weekend / early AM hacking on https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6. I am elated! 🚀

Now that I hit my goal of "make one dollar", time to move those goalposts!

#indiehackers #buildinpublic

[Grant Ammons @gammons]

@blvckledge https://t.co/H4XOmLgfu6!