Alex Lam

building tools that turn annoying business work into software
writing about AI, product taste, tiny teams
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[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

i've been building stuff on the internet for a long time

made a chrome extension that yelled at people for procrastinating, made shopify stores faster, built apps, scripts, scrapers, landing pages, dumb experiments. some made money, the vast majority did not, all taught me something

lately i've been living in claude code & codex, automating everything annoying i can (currently my own bookkeeping) because i'm a lazy fuck

going to post here about what i'm building, claude code
workflows, weird product ideas, and the messy parts

follow if you're into that

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

i don’t think “no UI” is the future

i think “less UI until something weird happens” is the future

then i want buttons, logs, history, undo, permissions, all of it

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@YesKhush_5 kill your babies!

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day 1 of trying to make my business less annoying to run with ai

current status: ai is smart, my workflows are dumb

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@stefabrudan no users means no revenue

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@internetvin same 😭

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@yesadok sounds like hunger is part of your culture

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@RyanOlunix probably not, but a man can have dreams while putting out the third fire this week. I'd probably get bored after 2 months and get back to building something

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@asmartbear also avoids bringing on the wrong customers which can be a huge drain on the team

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@mobrk_ai sounds painful af, are people actually doing this?

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

i keep thinking about how much software exists just to make someone ask fewer questions

calendly = stop asking me when i’m free

loom = stop making me write this out

good software deletes a conversation

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@nmamizerov Keep going! Feels like banging your head against the wall but it's 💯 a volume game

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@arvidkahl haven't had fable refuse a request yet.. what are you asking it to do 🤔

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@hnshah fable putting in the work 💪

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@yesadok Interesting! Would you want the best team members to build a personal audience or just contribute to a corporate account?

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

every ai demo should have to show the part where the user gives it bad data

that’s where the product starts imo

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

trying to automate boring business work has mostly taught me how much boring business work i invented for myself

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@iwitaly platform risk in action, one policy tweak and your entire app business can evaporate overnight with no warning

[Alex Lam @hialexlam]

@nmamizerov effective strategy for some free education 🤷

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@kurtinc Just passed ours! Terrifying for sure