Popo Dev

Bootstrapping my SaaS as a student, CS major doing LLM research, Building - Record demo videos for your product 🎥

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

When I have time I like to build project on the side. The annoying thing is that showcasing them always takes hours. Just a quick demo takes the entire day.

Happy to launch a new version of ScreenDemos with
- Automatic zoom effects
- Custom backgrounds
- High quality video export

Managed to record this demo in a few takes today 👇

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@karpathy Mythos video incoming

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

AI makes building easier but most people don’t want to maintain software

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.

It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways.

Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo...

Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.

So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design.

They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job.

Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before.

Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@karpathy multi-agent branches or forks sounds like an interesting direction

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@fivosaresti GTME

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@Yuchenj_UW Fine-tuned but still cool

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

someone vibe coded a 3d city where every github developer is a building

more commits = taller building.

more repos = wider base.

lit windows = recent activity

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@paulg So many changes and new opportunities

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@ctatedev Really cool are the design better than directly prompting for html/css?

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

OpenAI and Anthropic have opposite cultures.

OpenAI runs like a modern Bell Labs. 2-3 researchers spin up projects like GPT & Sora, then turn them into products. Maximal ambition, from each kind of model to robotics to AI device.

Anthropic is brutally focused. They believe coding is the path to AGI. Everything else is noise. No image models. No video models. No vagueposts.

It will be fascinating to see which one wins.

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@felixleezd @ADPList Yes thanks

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@rakyll How much details was given to Claude. Was it the already designed plan or just a description?

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@neetcode1 New AI models now

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

Goal for 2026:

- Bootstrap to 10k MRR

Will come back when I reach it

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@adamdotdev It’s dope let the new generation have some fun

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

Always cool to see users getting value from your product 🎉

It's not easy but let's keep building useful projects

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

Always cool to see users getting value from your product 🎉

It's not easy but let's keep building useful projects

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@petergyang It’s changing very fast nice reflections

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@snoopy_dot_jpg Forgot to run as a background task

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@joshtriedcoding Merry Christmas

[Popo Dev @popoxdev]

@KevinNaughtonJr Roblox?