Patrick Stolc

Developer. Father of two. Building @recapdotso: Daily learning from bite-sized summaries on your favorite topics. Can exit Vim.

[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

Why am I building @tryrecap?

I read a lot of blogs on niche topics, like quantitative finance.

I'm always finding myself missing out on posts and reading posts that turn out to be of no value to me.

This is how I started solving the problem for myself 👇

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@ThePrimeagen If you rotate it 90 degrees it looks like a chart of $VIX

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@investinganna @nextjs Good old days of spaghetti 🤣

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Using @nextjs almost feels like cheating 😅

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@investinganna @nextjs Honestly, it's been a game-changer for me as well! My first framework was angular. Never again 😅

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@edgarasben @nextjs Don't think I can share anything right now, but @nextauthjs alone makes me not want to use other frameworks 🤩

[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

Using @nextjs almost feels like cheating 😅

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@bradvangelder @nextjs Oh, I'm already doing that. And prisma on planet scale 😎

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@philkellr @nextjs All of it 😅 Started something from scratch, so using it with prisma and planetscale has been a great experience 🙂

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@notdatkunal @ikoichi

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@ikoichi Full stack and occasionally ML 🙂

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@Jason Bought a $2000 espresso machine so I can make my coffee at home.

In 2-3 recessions I hope to be able to afford a home 🙏

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@ThePeterMick @recapdotso @Copylime

[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

@adamlyttleapps Not required, but it can be both good and bad to be a good coder.

If you're too obsessed with coding itself it can blur the bigger picture, e.g. Making and selling a product.

If you just use code as a mean to reach a goal, then it's great 🙂

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I would love some nice illustrations for my onboarding.

Can't really justify making any, because it doesn't make the launch happen sooner 🚀

Stock illustrations or none?

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[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

Started a small “side quest”:

IOS keyboard app, with text generation/completion.

Use it for:
- Tweets
- Instagram captions
- Texting back your mom

📥 DM me if you're interested 🙂

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A product you haven't launched yet is the perfect place for creative copywriting. RIP placeholder texts 🤣
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[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

@utkuturunc Your problem is that those models are general purpose. No prompt will change that.

I'm using language models in my product. I got bad results using existing models.

What helped was to fine-tune them for my specific use case. You have to do the same 🙂

[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

I would love some nice illustrations for my onboarding.

Can't really justify making any, because it doesn't make the launch happen sooner 🚀

Stock illustrations or none?

#buildinpublic

[Patrick Stolc @patrickstolc]

A product you haven't launched yet is the perfect place for creative copywriting. RIP placeholder texts 🤣
#buildinpublic