Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar

Coded for 30y, indie building with AI

* Starter kit to ship profitable SaaS on 1 server for AI builders @stacknaut
* - chrome extension for agents

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

15th mth into bootstrapping. @thebluesocial is my 3rd product having worked on it for 12 mths. Still trying to find PMF

I have started building a new tool MyOG .social while I'm considering if @thebluesocial should focus solely on Bluesky or cross-post

#buildinpublic

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Made a little tool to fork Bluesky modlist https://theblue .social/fork-bluesky-moderation-list

Useful where you see a good modlist that you want to block with, but there are a few good accounts in there you want to keep.

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@loftwah What 😱

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@init_bobjames Go for it! I don't want to support giants, but unfortunately, it's really just better here.

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Namecheap .com renewal vs Cloudflare's $10.45.

That's it. Took less than 30 minutes to migrate. I'm out.

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@flyosity @treeo I hope there's a way to restore/pause the streak? Sometimes my enthusiasm takes a bit hit after I break a streak after 100/200/300+ days

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

I think the question is whether the new pie continues to be big enough.

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

I’m still navigating this new world as the owner of a consultancy that has specialized in React Native for over ten years.

I’ll be transparent with you all, 33,000 of my closest friends, and feedback is welcome:

1. In the coming years, will companies still want our years of RN/Expo expertise? Can we stay the course, simply using the new tools to be more effective and productive?

2. Should we expand to native mobile too? (We have plenty of native mobile experience; this wouldn’t be a big step.)

3. Should we expand outside of mobile? Many of our team comes from back end, web, and other areas. (Probably not, but … ?)

4. Or are software consultancies going the way of the blacksmith? Or programmers in general? (I don’t think so, but I don’t dismiss possibilities when considering the future like this.)

I have my own ideas on this, and am charting a course with the rest of leadership at Infinite Red, but I’d love to hear from you all too.

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Looking back, I think I did quite a few things because I didn't know I couldn't/shouldn't.

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@cjaythecreator @gregisenberg 2 decades ago, I went to the stationary corner and grabbed a box of pens and paper for a colleague, not knowing that needed permission 🤷

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@cjaythecreator @gregisenberg 2 decades ago, I went to the stationary corner and grabbed a box of pens and paper for a colleague, not knowing that needed permission 🤷

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

I ordered the/my first iPhone because my HTC Touch stuttered horribly when I was trying to show photos to a fellow passenger on the train.

[Mike Rundle @flyosity]

Years ago Apple Maps put me on the wrong side of a divided highway when I was running late so I switched to Google Maps that day

Last year Claude wrote utterly broken UIKit code 5 prompts in a row so I switched to OpenAI models that day

I got no patience for product failures

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@leerob It's still whether you can produce results or appear to product results.

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Huh

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

For more than 16 years, I have been keeping a worklog and a good part of it involved tracking the time I work on various projects. A downside of coding agents is that's not viable/accurate anymore as I often switch between projects 🤷

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

A stage in product building where you realise UTMs are actually useful. Ever too late?

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Not sure why I built this earlier, but I did. Just updated: https://WhosBuilt .com anyone would find this useful?

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

I'm doing agentic coding here but Codex is vibing 🎵

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Do you remember how to review big PRs?

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

Before vs after for @thebluesocial

Less like school homework, I hope

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

I have no idea where/how Perl came into the picture:

"Perl treated `@whosbuilt` as a Perl array in replacement. Escaping that and rerunning."

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

About AI usage in school: you can safely assume to have a calculator with you when you clear school (and in most of school later), but you still need to learn your multiplication tables and long division, matrix multiplications, right?

[Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar @hboon]

@krzyzanowskim To be fair, deployment beyond a certain team size or user size sucks.