Dan Mars

Vibe coding apps on the internet

Software engineer
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Current Projects:
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[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

@OKXHelpDesk That doesn’t answer my question, which seems to be an error of yours.
Also I want to know if the offer applies to existing users. @OKXHelpDesk

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

@okx @OKXHelpDesk

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

@okx Hi @okx , why does this article from you guys that I saw yesterday says "12 June 2026, 14:00 GMT+2 – 13 July 2026, 14:00 GMT+2" but when I click on the campaign, it says it ended yesterday?

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

I’m starting a real project this time

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Can’t agree on this one, Neo it self is great, specially for the price range that it’s competing at. It might not be for you but it’s a good product 💻

[Surendar @Surendar__05]

Name the Worst Apple product

I’ll go first:

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Is anyone curious or wants to ask questions about Jordan? 🇯🇴

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Is anyone curious or wants to ask questions about Jordan? 🇯🇴

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

I used in the deserts of Jordan and even though it was in the middle of nothing, still managed to get an awesome speed 🇯🇴🐪🏜️

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

I used in the deserts of Jordan and even though it was in the middle of nothing, still managed to get an awesome speed 🇯🇴🐪🏜️

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Starlink is awesome

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Starlink is awesome

[Rob Hallam @robj3d3]

Story time: Elon deserves less hate than he gets.

Last month I flew Cyprus to Bangkok on Emirates with a layover in Dubai.

About halfway through the first flight (5 hours) I realised I could connect to wifi for free.

Logged in and saw it was because the plane was on Starlink.

First time I'd seen this on a plane, I was excited.

Checked the speed: 200+ Mbps download. Holy.

I spent the rest of the flight working at insane speeds at 35,000 feet.

Landed in Dubai, switched to my connection (another Emirates, 6 hours to Bangkok).

First thing I did was check the wifi because I wanted to keep working.

It was there, but charging $20 through OnAir (SITA). Not Starlink nice, but fine.

So I connected and again checked the speed: 8 Mbps.

Over 30x slower than Starlink. Still, the package said multi-device, so I figured I'd just use my phone hotspotted to my laptop.

Then I accidentally signed in with my boarding pass instead of my email. Looked for a log out. There was none.

I tried clearing cache and cookies. Flushed DNS on the MacBook. Nothing worked.

I was stuck on the wrong account on my laptop with no way to switch.

Spent the next hour debugging while messaging Grok and Claude on my phone, waiting minutes between replies because the connection was that bad.

Eventually flagged down a flight attendant.

She went to the lead, came back and said they couldn't escalate to OnAir mid-flight and the only path was emailing for a refund after landing.

Fine. Not life or death, but the service didn't work as advertised on the device I actually wanted to work on. Half refund felt fair.

6-8 emails back and forth with OnAir and they refused.

Their reasoning: because I'd consumed data on my phone (which I only did to debug the laptop issue) my usage was above the threshold, so no refund.

The debugging itself was the disqualifier.

The money wasn't the point. I wanted them to know the service was broken, and I wanted to be treated fairly when it was. Neither happened.

So to recap: wifi 30x slower than Starlink, charges $20 for it, then when it breaks they refuse the refund because you tried to fix it.

Closing line of their final email:

"The internet service on board an aircraft flying at 900 km/hour relies on complex solutions, and the same experience as at the airport can therefore not always be provided."

You can decide, reading this today, whether you want to be @elonmusk or make excuses.

Rant over.

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Consistency is sometimes so hard to keep but we need to keep on going, this is more a lesson to myself

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Thank you guys for 11 followers 😁

[Marc Lou @marclou]

The morning routine:

- Phone turned OFF last night
- Breakfast w/ wife
- 1–2 hours at the gym
- Cursor + localhost:3000 only, until lunch

That’s the only way I’m productive and happy.

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

@rozzabuilds Ahhh nicee! Limassol is great, did you like Paphos?

I haven’t been here long enough but I love Ayia Napa, the beaches in there are amazing 😄

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Health tracking and fitness data shouldn’t be locked behind a monthly fee

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Really liking Google’s approach with the new fitness band

Buy it once for $99 — no mandatory subscription (unlike Whoop). Optional premium is fine, but the hardware works without monthly payments, finally ����

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Whoop is now worth $10.1 billion. Today, Google launched the Fitbit Air, a $99.99 wristband with Gemini AI inside that costs half of Whoop's cheapest plan.

The Fitbit Air ships May 26. No screen. A small sensor on a band. It tracks your heart rate, sleep stages, workouts, and stress. The Fitbit app becomes Google Health the same day. Inside is a Gemini-powered AI coach that reads your data and tells you what to change. If you've slept badly three nights in a row, the coach changes your workout for that day. If caffeine is wrecking your sleep, it tells you to cut back.

Every Fitbit Air comes with three free months of the AI coach. After that, the coach runs $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. If you already pay for one of Google's AI plans, the coach is included.

The cheapest Whoop plan is $199 a year. The top tier is $359. In March, Whoop raised $575 million from investors who valued the company at $10.1 billion.

Google bought Fitbit in January 2021 for $2.1 billion and watched the brand fade. Active monthly users dropped from 40 million in 2022 to about 33 million in 2025. Estimated revenue fell to $770 million last year, a 15% drop. Meanwhile, Whoop gave the hardware away and charged a subscription for AI advice on workouts and rest, letting the software do the work. Whoop now has more than 2.5 million paying members.

The 130 million people who registered for Fitbit over the years now belong to Google Health. Stephen Curry, Google's Performance Advisor, helped design a special edition of the Air. The Gemini coach, in testing since October, is now live for everyone in 200+ countries.

The Fitbit Air keeps working if you skip the subscription, but Whoop's hardware needs the subscription to function. Apple Health only works on iPhones. Google Health and the Fitbit Air work on both.

Whoop's AI coach starts at $199 a year. Google's costs $99.99 a year, or nothing extra if you have Google AI Pro. The fight for AI on your wrist begins May 26.

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Excited for this one, been working a lot on myself lately

Curious to see if they can actually beat whoop 👌🏼

[Kote @kotecinho]

Google Fitbit Air

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

@ololralph I'm curious, what tech do I need to make a similar game for example?

[Anjali @anjalinegiux]

@thedanmars This looks good. I like those cute 🦉

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

@Ianjalinegi CodeBuddy turns your GitHub activity into a cute owl that grows with you 😁

Basically a gamified productivity buddy
- Connect GitHub → earn XP & Gold from commits/activity
- Level up your owl with tons of skins
- Buy floating islands, accessories & compete on leaderboards

[Dan Mars @thedanmars]

Good morning from Cyprus ☀️🇨🇾

Working on more CodeBuddy owl skins today 🦉

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