Lloyd Bettell-Higgins

Cozy entrepreneur building SaaS for mental wellness 🧠 Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner | Building @BeliefForge in public

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Weekend question for builders:

Do you code on weekends or protect that time for rest?

I'm trying to stick to weekday building, but the urge to "just fix one more thing" is strong.
#BuildInPublic #WorkLifeBalance

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

BeliefForge update:

✅ Flask API running
✅ Docker container working
✅ Basic auth scaffolding done

Next up: Building the actual belief identification logic.

Slow progress, but it's progress.
#BuildInPublic #Progress

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

@RahulKrishnaa28 I am excited to see if my planning matches real world usage tbh

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Day 5. Still no code written for BeliefForge.
#BuildInPublic #ProductDesign

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

@JovayaSocial Thanks Jovaya, just glad I finally started :-)

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

End of Week 1 building BeliefForge.

What I've done:
- Mapped user journey
- Chose tech stack
- Wrote down 47 potential features

What I haven't done:
- Written a single line of code

Next week: Actually building something.
#BuildInPublic #WeekInReview

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

BeliefForge is already Dockerised. Learning from past panic.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Each time, I hadn't. Just needed to restart the container.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Each time I thought "this is it, I've destroyed everything."

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Throwback to 2024 when I learnt Docker by breaking my audio app 11 times in one afternoon.
#BuildInPublic #Docker

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

I think that means I'm on the right track.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

The gap between planning and building is where imposter syndrome lives.
#BuildInPublic #ImposterSyndrome

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Wrote 20 lines of code today. Suddenly felt like I have no idea what I'm doing.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

It's not much, but it's something. That "First Commit" message always feels quite significant, doesn't it?

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

First commit to BeliefForge today.
#BuildInPublic #Coding

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Flask project structure, basic API scaffolding, Docker setup.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Mine is "I'm not good at finishing things." Yet I've finished loads of things.

Funny how our brains work.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Saturday morning thought:

What's the one belief about yourself that you know isn't true, but you still act like it is?
#MentalHealth #SelfAwareness

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

Turns out, designing something simple is quite hard.

[Lloyd Bettell-Higgins @lbettellhiggins]

But I did spend 4 hours mapping out the user journey — from signup to first belief identified.