sunghwan

indie ios developer 

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@DanDr1s they also gave us a banked reset! ❤️

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

As of today, I feel like two Claude Max 5x subs are much better value than a $200 ChatGPT Pro sub. Fable is the absolute GOAT for front-end design and Opus feels unlimited.

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@doodlestein thats funny, i just had one instance of this using deepseek 4.1 flash

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

adding @jakemor 's workflow as food for thought

https://t.co/pUTBNFmeCk

[Jake Mor @jakemor]

To really lock in the UI/UX for https://t.co/Devk25Hg1H i used this tweaks trick...

have your agent make a dev-only tweaks section that lets you preview any component with an editor to modify variables

say "add a tweaks section with a live preview of X component. wire up design tokens to sliders so I can change them and see what they look like. add a way for me to reset them and copy modified values"

then later on say something like "the tails on the bubbles dont look right, add all design tokens to tweaks"

and it one shots a little internal editor

not only was ChatMRR entirely built with agents, i made it pretty much exclusively from my phone with https://t.co/PrkwahOkgg no way i could have done it without this workflow

(idea not my own, i think fb made a whole library for this. agents just make it easy)

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

i'm building a new app and i'm at a point where i feel like we (my agent and i) need to have a proper design and component system because anytime i ask something, it just creates things by itself, doesn't bother to look at my existing UI patterns, including layouts, colors, spacings, etc etc, and just "makes up" stuff on its own, which creates lots of design drift as time goes by. and i kind of feel like it's costing me more time, more brain cells, and more tokens whenever i need to correct it

so i need to design a self-regulating mechanism where the AI will go look for the right UI patterns whenever i ask it to implement a feature, a little bit like as if we had our own storybook (i'm not using it unfortunately because i think we can have our own? if there's a strong use case or very good reason i should spend a little bit of $$ for using it, i'll consider. until then i want to have my own little internal knowledge base for components and UI patterns that my AI can consult)

and for the record i'm currently out of Fable and Astra usage so i set myself up with a minimal pi coding harness and i chose deepseek v4.1 flash as the main model. i think this type of mistake happens less when i'm using a powerful model, but nevertheless, i'm just thinking that the drift can still happen, hence reinforces my belief that i need this type of system

what does everyone think? do you relate??

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

afterthought: is that what DESIGN.md is used for? if there are any good examples or best practices out there, i'd love a link to a repo

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@jakemor bravo, so clean ♥

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@Tanguyvbc i was freelancing better lmao

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@hotiiofficial i live close to mountains... will stuffing a few bricks in my backpack and going there provide the desired effect?

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@marcus_lowe @typesafeai damn. i just thought doing cmd+v would have pasted all of the right info into every field at once. still impressive!

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i feel like it's the best use case that i'd definitely go for, but i still don't see a reliable way to do it?

many people keep talking about how there's a risk of breaking cache and, overall, things might end up more expensive/costly in terms of tokens

im pretty optimistic that this will get solved soon enough though

to the builder who's doing this: thank you for your service lol

[Adam Azzam @AAAzzam]

Jev is an incredible model router.

Ask Jev which models can solve a user’s task, and route it to the cheapest one.

We have a new frontier model overnight.

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@odstark14 @melvindvivas same boat

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@raymmmd @VraserX exactly the same issue. Their app store upgrade flow is literally f*cked

[George Lampropoulos @GeorgeLampro20]

I’ve been saying getting “shadow banned” is a myth

ur content just sucks…

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

Astra users are experiencing generational trauma this week

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

I've got 2 days left before my reset

Anybody using a reliable model router powered by Jev?

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@jakemor @vparv3 @vahebagdasar @Superwall all good, it works now ❤️

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@d1nz_3 blocking for AI reply

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

thats really cool

ever since i started indie hacking, i went to a few indie hacker meetups offline and joined some of their online group chats too

i started out building web apps, then shifted to mobile last year, and over time i realized i just wasn’t looking for the same things as most people in those groups

for me, there isn’t much value in spending hours every week at a meetup unless the people there are your customers, potential partners, or people you can learn something very specific from

otherwise it’s very easy to spend an afternoon chatting, have lunch, talk about tools and tech, then go home having barely moved your own work forward

and i noticed a lot of the conversation tends to revolve around building

latest frameworks, new stacks, technical choices, what everyone is experimenting with

which is fun, but once you’re trying to make money from products, you start caring a lot more about distribution, positioning, marketing and sales

that was probably the biggest disconnect for me

i kept going for a while, then eventually stopped because i realized i was getting more value from talking directly to users, working on distribution, and just spending more time building my own thing

i do love the idea of being in the same room as people who are at a similar revenue stage though, especially other mobile app founders

i feel like we’d probably have a lot more in common, from organic acquisition, app store stuff, paid ads, and all the weird little problems that come with trying to grow an app

[Jake Mor @jakemor]

If you haven't joined https://t.co/hC4dd82Fxy yet it's been popping off!

→ verify your revenue
→ join chats w/ ppl making the same

no bs!

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@jakemor @vparv3 @vahebagdasar @Superwall sorry i still can't see it :/

[sunghwan @solodevmaxxing]

@HosseinGorji021 happy to connect, Hossein! : )