Sanjeev Sharma

Building @postengageai · Sr. Software Engineer. I write about AI, agents & shipping solo. Also write horror & fantasy novels on Kindle 📚

[Sanjeev Sharma @speedsharma_ai]

opus 5.5 made my startup's entire launch video

every single frame is code. 7,556 of them.
0 After Effects. 0 designers. 0 editors.

just me and claude

the product in it is real too ↓

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@acesaasdemos yeah it kind of ruined me for shipping stuff without a 'why this, why now' after that

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Got my first paying customer on PostEngage today.

Shipped Branded Links and in-app notifications this morning. A few hours later, invoice #0001 came in.

Small number. Doesn't feel small.

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@0xgolam probably both, but when your dms are flooded daily like theirs a branded link stops being a nice to have fast

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@pcshipp Bro, these days, I’m facing the same issue again. Tokens are burning like a wildfire! 🔥

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Built a background remover that doesn't hide the full size download behind a paywall.

Free. No sign up. No watermark. No daily limit.

Also erases date stamps, objects, random people, whatever you paint over.

https://t.co/rFzG29CxLV

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They run a sneaker and streetwear drop site, DMs flooded with people asking about restocks and sizes. Branded Links means their own domain shows up in those replies instead of ours.

Wild watching someone's actual business use the thing you built.

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@WukongNumber1 yeah, didn't expect it to feel like anything tbh. turns out "someone thought this was worth $30" hits different than any signup number

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Every new Node project:

npm install pino pino-pretty pino-roll pino-redact pino-http pino-nestjs

...then 4 configs, then DIY tracing, then a DB transport you write yourself.

So I built logixia. One install: console, file rotation, Postgres/Mongo/MySQL/SQLite, NestJS, tracing, OTel, redaction, Prometheus.

#opensource #pinoalternative #winstonalternative #logger #logginglibrary #oss #js #ts #typescript #hacktoberfest2026

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What’s something you do every week that makes you think:

“There HAS to be a better way to do this.”

Could be anything:

• repetitive work
• spreadsheets
• reporting
• finding information
• customer support
• marketing
• coding
• admin
• anything you currently do manually

Tell me what you’re doing today.

If someone built a tool that completely removed this pain, would you pay for it?

And how much?
$10 / $25 / $50 / $100+ per month

I might build the most painful one.

[Sanjeev Sharma @speedsharma_ai]

@itsvlady bro same here but this time i hit my weekly limit in 1.5 day. waiting for it to reset. The MAX is not MAX anymore.

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Indie hackers / founders:

What’s ONE problem you deal with repeatedly that you wish someone would just build a simple tool for?

Not a “cool-to-have” idea.

Something that genuinely wastes your time, money, or sanity.

Reply with:

• What’s the problem?
• How do you solve it today?
• If someone built a really good solution, would you pay for it?
• Roughly how much? $10 / $25 / $50 / $100+ per month
I’m looking for problems worth building around.

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@Joshua_WD yeah the named page trick saved me a ton of hacks. the toc was the annoying part, needed a two-pass build so the page numbers land right. are you doing anything with paged media yourself or just curious?

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i'm a software engineer, so when i published my novels on amazon kdp i didn't open indesign once

4 paperbacks. 486 print pages. every single one is html + css → pdf

built with claude. here's the pipeline ↓

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the stack:

markdown manuscript → pandoc → json
python + weasyprint renders the 6x9 print interior
same source → epub for kindle + docx

one source of truth, three formats. a typo fix is one command, not a re-export

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@LeeWyattCorp appreciate it 🙏 honestly the best part is a typo fix is one command now instead of re-exporting everything

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css paged media, almost no manual nudging. weasyprint handles it:

- orphans: 2 / widows: 2 on paragraphs
- break-before: page on every chapter (named page, so no running head on the opener)
- break-inside: avoid on the "system" boxes and journal cards so they never split across pages

then i render, flip through the pdf, fix the 2-3 ugly spots per book

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Rust: https://t.co/gP89zSACCZ
TypeScript: https://t.co/sCjHlrjfu3

Comment on an issue and I'll assign it. I review PRs within a day or two.

If you can't contribute this month, a star still helps people find them.

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Two of my open source projects are taking Hacktoberfest PRs:

phpm: a Composer-compatible PHP installer in Rust, 80+ issues
logixia: an async-first TypeScript logger, 30+ issues

Every issue says which files to change, what to do, and the test command. Small ones take a couple of hours.

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Hacktoberfest: logixia has 30+ open issues, most of them good first issues.

It's an async-first TypeScript logger (NestJS, OpenTelemetry, redaction). Open work: tests, Fastify/Hono/Next.js examples, Slack and Discord transports, small bug fixes. 5 PRs from new contributors merged this week.

https://t.co/5qry0VjUe8

A star helps.

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Hacktoberfest: phpm has 80+ open issues for contributors.

phpm is a Composer-compatible PHP installer written in Rust. The issues are scoped tests, Composer-parity bugs, error messages, docs and Windows fixes. Each names the files and the test command.

https://t.co/n8y7INB6VL

Stars help others find it.