dtay

Solo dev | Learning in public | Chasing 0 to 1 | Building Tabby

[dtay @taydev_io]

Was feeling pretty demotivated the past few days, juggling work and spending less time on content.

Then I saw this comment, and it completely fired me up.

Time to lock back in.

[dtay @taydev_io]

Start of a new month, guys!

Just dropped off a call with a friend of mine, might have some kind of partnership coming soon. Hopefully. It's been tough finding a cofounder, so fingers crossed this one works out.

Here's to a strong June for all of us!

[dtay @taydev_io]

Founders, how do you handle cold start?

That early stage where the product only gets good once people use it, but nobody wants to use it while it’s empty.

What actually worked for you?

[dtay @taydev_io]

Founders, how do you handle cold start?

That early stage where the product only gets good once people use it, but nobody wants to use it while it’s empty.

What actually worked for you?

[dtay @taydev_io]

Took my own app’s quiz and I got “The Authentic Friend”

Strengths: respects origins, loyal to classics.

Weaknesses: rigid, judges ‘inauthentic’ food.

Both completely accurate, unfortunately.

Take the quiz! If you get “the fun friend” we can’t be friends 🥹

[dtay @taydev_io]

picking the perfect stack is the most expensive form of procrastination.

nobody using tabby has ever asked what it’s written in. they ask if it logged their expense. that’s the entire bar.

i’ve watched people spend a week comparing frameworks for a thing they could’ve shipped in that same week. Guilty of this myself 😅

just pick the boring popular option and go

[dtay @taydev_io]

After 400 users, I'm finally launching Tabby on Product Hunt today.

Not sure why I waited this long. I've got a whole pipeline of features lined up, but I realized I'll never reach the end of it... so why not start now?

A follow + upvote would mean a lot!

https://t.co/f5zHQLFspZ

[dtay @taydev_io]

After 400 users, I'm finally launching Tabby on Product Hunt today.

Not sure why I waited this long. I've got a whole pipeline of features lined up, but I realized I'll never reach the end of it... so why not start now?

A follow + upvote would mean a lot!

https://t.co/f5zHQLFspZ

[dtay @taydev_io]

After 400 users, I'm finally launching Tabby on Product Hunt today.

Not sure why I waited this long. I've got a whole pipeline of features lined up, but I realized I'll never reach the end of it... so why not start now?

A follow + upvote would mean a lot!

https://t.co/f5zHQLFspZ

[dtay @taydev_io]

I feel like i worked 100hrs this week, i think i need another trip to japan and a cup of ramen 🍜

[dtay @taydev_io]

Picking the perfect tech stack is the second most expensive form of procrastination.

I used to spend weeks researching which stack to pick. Comparing options, reading benchmarks, asking around. I told myself I was being thorough but really, I was just delaying.

The thing is, users don't care what you built it in. They care whether it solves their problem.

I'd go deep on the "best" stack to avoid scaling issues, migration pain, whatever. But I've never actually hit those problems. Most side projects don't get anywhere near the scale where your stack choice starts to matter.

What I do now is just pick the most popular one. More docs, more Stack Overflow answers, more AI training data, more people who've already hit your bug and posted the fix. That's the real advantage when you're trying to ship.

Munch and Tabby were both built on whatever I already knew. Not the optimal stack. Not the trendy one. The one I could start in almost immediately.

What do you think the first one is?

[dtay @taydev_io]

Have been using Matt Pocock’s “grill-me” skills lately and I’m hooked.

It can get a bit overwhelming with the number of questions, but it keeps uncovering gaps I didn’t even know I had.

Now I catch myself looking forward to getting grilled again. 😂

Sharing in case it helps someone else: https://t.co/awGGcsMTyK

[dtay @taydev_io]

Haven’t been pushing my telegram expense tracker that hard, but cool to see some organic traction.

Working on new features (subscription tracking + more AI), hoping to convert more users into paid.

What would make you pay for an expense tracker?

[dtay @taydev_io]

Haven’t been pushing my telegram expense tracker that hard, but cool to see some organic traction.

Working on new features (subscription tracking + more AI), hoping to convert more users into paid.

What would make you pay for an expense tracker?

[dtay @taydev_io]

@aryanlabde Telegram expense and subscription tracker with a nice ui dashboard. Plan to include AI into it to make it more intelligent and as an advisor for daily spendings.

https://t.co/61RQTx4DOg

[dtay @taydev_io]

@gurpreet671 https://t.co/S9TM4gWLOw

[dtay @taydev_io]

Saw a TikTok about tweaking Claude Code’s status, tried it out, and honestly I’ve been liking it a lot.

It matches pretty well with what Matt Pocock said about the “smart” vs “dumb” zones, once you’re around ~40% of the context window, things start getting a bit messy, so compacting early actually helps keep things on track.

After using it for a while, it kind of changes how you work with it. Instead of just letting the convo drag on, you naturally start cleaning things up and resetting before it goes off the rails.

Feels a bit like doing a quick refactor, but for the prompt.

[dtay @taydev_io]

I spent half my Saturday going through PRs to see what others are building, and it kind of hit me, with Claude Code around, I’m not sure I would come up with some of these solutions/ideas myself. Pretty humbling.