TravelerOfCode

20+ yrs in tech → now CTO of a team that's 100% AI agents.
Digital Nomad 🌏 Muay Thai 🥊 Building in Public 🚀

[TravelerOfCode @TravelerOfCode]

I wrote a 38-page playbook on building products with AI agents.

What's inside:
- Agent architecture that replaces a 5-person team
- The CLAUDE.md Bible (150-200 rule)
- $0 API costs with local LLMs
- Real project walkthrough, 5 terminals in parallel
- Prompt templates and decision frameworks It's free.

Comment "PLAYBOOK" and I'll DM you.
Like/repost so others can find it too.

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some funny works for today :)

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Year 3 in Thailand 🇹🇭
Honest monthly cost to live well:

→ $800 apartment (seaview, pool, gym in building)
→ $200 muay thai + spa
→ $400 food (eating out 2-3 max weekly)
→ $150 transport + cafes

$1,550 total.

People grind in EU or USA to afford the rent i pay all-in.

Geography arbitrage is real.
The trick is staying long enough to compound it.

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@DanielSmidstrup ofcourse distribution

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@andov left a corp job too. took me a year to unlearn that meetings = wasted time. half of them were outcomes, just slow ones. output and outcome are not the same thing.

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@DrPhiltill wait. vibe coding actual physics simulators is the timeline i wanted. what model are you using and is it surviving the unit consistency on its own?

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@fengfengnew20 upvotes are vanity. the only signal that matters is "did someone open it twice." which channel had the most second-opens? thats where your real audience is hiding.

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@logotype @endyjtwn 11 without an interview usually means the deck isnt matching the pattern they read for. its almost always a positioning problem before an idea problem.

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@darekgusto one is, one isnt. the one i killed: too narrow, no retention loop. the one i kept: smaller market but the users come back monthly. taste told me both were good. retention told me the truth.

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@darekgusto not running from. running toward something cheaper to live well in. when berlin/lisbon/sf locals fight gentrification, nomads end up being the visible tip of capital that lives somewhere else. uncomfortable to admit but true.

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🇹🇭Thailand last at 1.2% is exactly why nomads keep moving here. flat property + climbing quality of life. vietnam at 24% is the warning this window doesnt stay open forever — capital is finding the cheap markets fast.

[Global Property Guide @GlobalPropGuide]

1-Year House Price Change in Asia (Nominal, Latest Data):

Vietnam: 24.3%
Hong Kong: 9.8%
Japan (Tokyo): 8.2%
India: 3.6%
Singapore: 3.4%
South Korea: 1.8%
Malaysia: 1.7%
Philippines: 1.6%
Thailand: 1.2%
Indonesia: 0.6%

Source: National statistics offices and central banks

[TravelerOfCode @TravelerOfCode]

new indie devs think 24-hour days = the path. i did the same thing for 8 years.

now im 42, on mounjaro, undoing what the grind did to my body. the receipt arrived late.

→ working hard has a ceiling
→ working right compounds
→ recovery is the input, not the reward
→ your body keeps score even when twitter doesnt

pace is the only multiplier that lasts.

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@acadictive Let's do brother !

[TravelerOfCode @TravelerOfCode]

solo dev paradox:

→ at the desk: gym time hits, you dont want to leave
→ at the gym: workout ends, you dont want to go back
→ both are flow states
→ both feel like resistance to the next thing

discipline isn't the work. it's the switching.

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@FedEx Thailand:

→ ship date: 6/01
→ standard transit date (per your doc): 6/02 by 6pm
→ today: 6/03 — still in customs
→ premium price: paid
→ est. delivery : tomorrow (if they can)

The guarantee is what justifies the cost.
Without it, FedEx is just expensive.

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@pmitu %100 agree

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@deckard_the_dev rest weeks are the underrated input. june launch with a rested brain beats a may launch with a fried one. shipping stashr — keep the energy

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@sylverconsult the 'no destination = drift' frame applies to indie just as hard as business. solo founders building for 6 months without a target number end up with 6 products and zero customers. the goal is the filter

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@Cuki98 5 months from $9 to $226 is the indie shape almost nobody screenshots. not glamorous but compounding. the difference between this curve and a flatline is showing up months 6-12 when nothing feels like its working

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@MDALISHANALI2 28 paying users for a thing you built in 53 days is the line most never cross. stuck at $300 is way better than not stuck at $0. the next 100 days teach you which of those 28 pull the curve up vs flat

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@MileyFu 93 registered for an agent meetup in taipei is a real signal. asia agent dev community has been quietly stronger than the west coast on the practical-shipping side. lineup is solid

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@HsanC_ I use both extensively; honestly, Claude is unrivaled for front-end development, but Codex performs better on its own on the backend side.