Hello X. I'm Henoch, a developer in a small French town.
I build apps, let my AI do jobs I'd normally do myself, and walk into local shops to sell websites.
This post went out through a publishing tool I built. I'll post what works and what doesn't, with the numbers.
I run invoice filing for a restaurant. Some suppliers send a download link instead of attaching the PDF.
I decided against building a link follower. The restaurant asks those suppliers to attach the invoice instead.
Before I noticed, four invoices had sat for days without reaching the accountant. Now an email that produces no file gets closed, and the owner gets a message with the sender and whatever was attached.
I hate phone calls. You can't talk with your hands.
The night before, I'd walked into a bar with a website I'd built for them. The partner told me to call the manager in the morning, so I rehearsed it out loud three times, then dialled.
He said come by next week and we'll look at it together.
An invoice in my billing app sat on pending for five days while the client's payment was already on its way.
Only a webhook could mark it paid, and the endpoint was subscribed to the wrong event. The payment updates never arrived, and nothing complained.
Now a daily job asks the payment provider about anything still pending and runs it through the same rules the webhook uses.
My website moved to its new design last Wednesday.
Before I called it live, my AI opened every address I had for the site. 119 of 120 load, and the one that doesn't was already broken on the old site. A test message through the contact form arrived, and a tagged visit showed up in my stats.
I check that much because twice this summer I merged a feature, the build failed quietly, and the old version kept serving. The site looked fine and nothing showed an error.
First AI class with my AR glasses from @EvenRealities done! I felt so confident and not lost in my mind thanks to having the prep notes open!
Anyone ever tried these before? So crazy!
The 2-player trivia game I built got a Halloween version today: all 20 mascots in costume, a pumpkin crown for the winner, new sounds and a night icon. It went live on iPhone, Android and the web at the same time.
Seasons are now a data file the apps download, so Christmas can ship without an app update.
It runs until 1 November.
Just received the future!!! So excited to unpack it. 😍
This weekend was my birthday and after working so hard for months on my own business while working full time nonetheless and making good profit, I thought I definitely deserved to get myself a piece of the future!!