Roman Builder

Engineer, 10+ yrs. 6-fig salary. Family of 6.
Wake up 1hr earlier to build
10k MRR Startup.

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

🧵 I make 6 figures as a software engineer.

But every day I wake up 1hr earlier and build a Chrome extension to kill the tab bar.

Starting today: 30-day public challenge.
Every number. Every mistake. Zero filter.

Here's what I'm building and why 👇

[1/10]

[Csaba Kissi @csaba_kissi]

🚨 Starting the challenge!

So I officially started my 0 → $4,000 MRR SaaS in 365 days challenge today.

DAY1:
The product is called FeatureNest. It's for collecting feedback and feature requests for your projects.

I want to make it stand out from the competition by implementing some unique features.

The coming soon page is ready. Let me know what you think about the design.

If you're interested, you can join the waiting list. 👇

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@AlexandersenC @EmanAbio @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @Google yeah ICP's the real exception. for the normal apps most people live in though it still basically doesn't exist, which is the gap i meant. on-chain's a different layer than what most users actually touch

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@HectorVersus ah that's exactly the case it's built for. once you're juggling tabs for a new job the sidebar + spaces thing clicks fast. lmk how it feels after a few days, curious what works and what doesn't coming in fresh

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

🧵 I make 6 figures as a software engineer.

But every day I wake up 1hr earlier and build a Chrome extension to kill the tab bar.

Starting today: 30-day public challenge.
Every number. Every mistake. Zero filter.

Here's what I'm building and why 👇

[1/10]

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

chrome's had desktop vertical tabs as "coming soon" for years and android just beats it to a real shipping UI. the browser that wins isn't the one that announces the feature, it's the one that actually ships it

https://t.co/OreOAT7VpC

[AssembleDebug (Shiv) @AssembleDebug]

Google Chrome for Android is prepping a massive Vertical Tabs redesign

✅ Details - https://t.co/jMSmh8ulUE

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@adamnash the definition is the whole problem. is a color-graded photo "ai-generated"? a face-tuned one? basically every ad is synthetic to some degree, so a line like that catches everything or nothing

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@rrhoover cheesy and too long is fair. the book's whole magic was the slow problem-solving and that's the exact thing that drags on screen. some stories just don't want to be movies

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@ProductHunt the five stages of debugging with ai: confidence, denial, bargaining, "please just fix it", then fixing it yourself at 2am

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@jasonfried tools quietly shape culture way more than any values doc. nobody decides to get bureaucratic, they just adopt a tool that makes one path easy and 3 years later that's how the team works

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@lennysan @Replit @andrey_esipov the special moves mapping to actual frameworks with episode timestamps is so clever. you basically gamified podcast retention. didn't expect that to come out of a buildathon

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@csaba_kissi design looks clean. the real moat for these isn't the features though, it's getting people to actually leave feedback. that first trickle of requests is the brutal part. how are you planning to seed it?

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@marclou the ui gap is wild. it'll architect a whole backend correctly then center a div like it's never seen css before. taste is the one thing it still can't fake

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@arvidkahl the regret markup might be the best business model in tech. $12 to renew, priceless the second you've let it go

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@theo the broken part is they trained everyone to expect $40k of inference for $40. now any sane pricing reads as a betrayal even when it's the honest number

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@dvassallo reading code you didn't write and figuring out what's wrong with it might be the actual skill now. that's the hard part even for adults

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@dev_dmitriy honestly the extension support is what decides it more than the OS coverage imo. people basically live inside 2-3 extensions and a browser without them is a really hard switch no matter how clean the native build is

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@AssembleDebug android getting a real vertical tab UI before half the desktop browsers ship a decent sidebar is kinda wild lol

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

My AI skills now grade themselves and get better the more I use them.

My new tutorial walks through exactly how to build skills with:

→ An eval loop to have AI fix its own mistakes
→ Memory so the skill improves over time

Skills are honestly incredible for encoding your knowledge and taste, and I can't get enough of them.

📌 Watch now: https://t.co/u434ytNSZd

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Benchmarks place GPT 5.5 as the best model on SWE, but is it the best at making apps end-to-end?

Turns out Opus 4.8 continues to be the king of vibe coding on both price & performance.

Introducing ViBench: the first benchmark for app creation based on real world tasks

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

the 'all roles are merging into one builder role' take always misses it. the roles don't merge, the handoffs disappear. you still switch between eng / design / pm brains all day, you just stop waiting on a meeting to do it. solo devs have lived this for years

[Roman Builder @RomanGweb3]

@AlexandersenC @EmanAbio @AnthropicAI @OpenAI @Google fair, 'own' is doing a lot of work there. portable + exportable is the realistic version. true self-custody of agent memory basically doesn't exist yet