Jared Smith

Founder. CISO. Shipped AI to 100K+ users and identity for $400M+ in fintech. Writing on AI agents, Elixir, and Omarchy →

[Henry @Henryf1w]

The first 80% of vibe coding feels like magic.

The last 20% teaches you why software engineering exists.

Prove me wrong?

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

@codewith55 Because historically it sucked to look at and wasn’t suited to everything unless absolute raw processing speed was a requirement.

[DHH @dhh]

In the last three weeks: Atlanta, Copenhagen, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Beijing, Copenhagen, Chicago. Next week: San Francisco. 🚗🚄🛫🫡

[Mark Kretschmann @mark_k]

By next year, Omarchy could become the number 1 Linux distro. It's growing like crazy currently!

Feels like the early Ubuntu days back then (yes, I was there!)

[Patrick Kuhnke @patrick_kuhnke_]

Stop wasting your time with building.

If you never do marketing.

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

@Denche2005 It’s an echo chamber. Same crowd that used to shout “x language is now dead use y language”

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

Everyone loves to declare something dead when the game changes just a little.

[Denys Cherednychenko @Denche2005]

I've been scrolling through X for 20 minutes.

SaaS is dead.

Junior developers are dead.

SEO is dead.

Organic reach is dead.

Apparently, the only thing growing is everyone's personal brand.

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

@Denche2005 Lmao right?! Meanwhile most people on the planet have never used AI and people are still buying sass products. The game just changed a bit that’s all.

I wouldn’t always listen to the tech fyp…

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

Anyone else feeling like your agent being lazy completing a turn, is the AI equivalent of “are you still watching Netflix?”

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

Real businesses are created when the work get boring and the grind gets long.

That’s when most people quit.

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

Fuck it. Who cares if someone else is doing it already?

create something you love and want to see.

Maybe you’ll do it better maybe you won’t, either way you learn something.

[John Sonmez @simpleprogrammr]

You just solved something that confused you yesterday. Explain it while you still remember where you got stuck. You can help another beginner without pretending to be an expert.

[Devsec AI @devsec_ai]

Update your Omarchy Uber TV guys. 0.4.1 update introduces tablet mode. If you havent tried out Omarchy Uber TV yet, you can find the link below

https://t.co/EjapgXnniw

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

@matviy Distribution is always king doesn’t matter how good your product is someone with a platform and enthusiasm for their brand will almost always win over the products merits alone.

[NetworkChuck @NetworkChuck]

Dude, can we please stop publishing vulns before they are disclosed to the vendor!?!?!?!??!

[DHH @dhh]

Amazing endorsement of X. This really is where you'll find the most optimistic, forward-looking people in tech.

[DHH @dhh]

WE GOT OMARCHY ON IPAD BEFORE GTA6!!

[DHH @dhh]

Omarchy on Nvidia Shield! 🤘

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

@hustle_fred Yes!! been saying that. 40 bucks a month or even 100 a month that saves you hours of maintaining a week is always worth. Same reason everyone bought saas to begin with, it saved time and effort and now it saves tokens too.

[Jared Smith @sublimecoder]

It’s not exactly 29 and never pay again. It’s 29 and then you get to host it and maintain it which all have a cost. So is the amount of management you have to do worth 40/mo to you.

If they ever turn off llm subscriptions then it becomes exponentially more expensive.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

databull is the perfect example of what i keep seeing: indie hackers don't buy software. they rebuild it.

someone was paying $39/mo for an analytics tool. instead of paying, they cloned it and sold it for $29 lifetime. to the same crowd. who will also never pay monthly.

i pulled 7,800+ startups with verified revenue and split them by who they sell to:

- tools sold to indie hackers and founders: 74.5% make $0 a month.
- tools sold to small businesses and b2b teams: 60.5% make $0.
- only 4.5% of indie hacker tools ever reach $1k mrr. b2b tools reach it 2.5x as often.
- average mrr: about $530 selling to indie hackers vs about $1,870 selling to businesses. that's 3.5x.

why it keeps happening:

- they can build it themselves. every tool you sell them is a weekend project they're sure they could ship.
- they wait for the lifetime deal. monthly pricing is something they complain about, not something they pay.
- they're broke on purpose. most are pre-revenue and cutting costs, not buying tools.
- they're your competitors. your best customer today launches your clone next month.

when you zoom out, selling to indie hackers fails in one of three ways. they rebuild you, they wait you out for a lifetime deal, or they never had the budget in the first place!