Antonio Vidakovic

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

🤯 What if you put $10K into these 12 months ago…

📈 S&P 500
🪙 Gold
🚀 Solana
🛢️ Oil

I just built a clean visualizer with @BitrigApp that shows exactly how much you’d have gained or lost in each.

The gap between them is actually insane

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

I think I pivot my goals and X bio every day because what I share online (I have a need to share) cannot be diverse; it has to be focused on one topic.

Following the principle:
Focus on many things = no progress
Focus on one thing = progress

But my brain doesn't work like that.

What a nice world it could be if I could drop that principle and follow my own thinking. Just share what I want, no matter the numerical outcome, but rather in the hope it will help someone.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@stanleyforx is amazing! But I kinda started misusing it for personal stuff.

you know, kinda like life coach stuff. And of course, there it is: a thought. you already know the process: we should turn this into a product roadmap.

if you were expecting me to say no and keep my sanity in check, well, that did not happen.

what greg does: real psychology playbooks (IFS, MI, ACT, polyvagal, CFT) + the latest Anthropic model, wired up with a bunch of manual tweaks. acts like a life coach you'd pay $300/h for, except it lives in your telegram

spent a 8h vibe coding Greg(generated an icon using @paper btw. amazing tool). currently being tested by typing real-life shit to it, runs on Telegram, and I'm tweaking it to provide better responses.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@thedankoe @thedankoe this is the part nobody warns you about. you know you'll be bad at the start but you don't expect how long "bad" lasts. the gap between knowing this and actually sitting with it every day is massive

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@swyx @swyx the "not benchmaxxing" move is underrated. shipping something that just works instead of chasing leaderboard spots. most builders i know pick tools the same way, does it solve my problem, not does it win on paper

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@danshipper @danshipper this is what cursor-native actually looks like. i built an entire iOS app without leaving it. posthog inside codex makes total sense, you stop context-switching and start actually seeing what your users do while you're building

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@marckohlbrugge been posting #buildinpublic for a while now. the community always felt scattered across hashtags and random threads. if this actually becomes a home base, count me in

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@danshipper cursor ambassador here. built my entire iOS app in SwiftUI through Cursor + Claude Code. the idea of apps designed to live inside the IDE isn't theoretical anymore, it's already how some of us work. the gap is that most tools still assume you'll alt-tab out

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@Clintonkadry Thanks for letting me know.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

today i figured out i don't need to build an app today.

i keep falling into the same trap. if i don't build this today, somebody is going to become a millionaire and that somebody could be me.

so i just start coding. not because i have a real problem to solve. because sitting with the discomfort of not building feels harder than building.

all the real problems are still there when i'm done. i just avoided them for 8 hours.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

you need to have a 👀 at this piece.
https://t.co/wKWaWahzzO

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

every day on X someone posts their insane results.

18k signups. 332 paying customers. $47k MRR.

nobody asked. but now you feel like you're losing.

these posts disguise themselves as motivation but they're just scoreboard flexes. and the worst part, they work. because now you're thinking about your numbers instead of your work.

close the app. their scoreboard has nothing to do with your life.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

every day on X someone posts their insane results.

18k signups. 332 paying customers. $47k MRR.

nobody asked. but now you feel like you're losing.

these posts disguise themselves as motivation but they're just scoreboard flexes. and the worst part, they work. because now you're thinking about your numbers instead of your work.

close the app. their scoreboard has nothing to do with your life.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@thedankoe as a designer shipping SwiftUI apps through Claude Code, this hits different. it quotes me "2-3 day implementation" for something i built in 20 minutes. the time estimates are trained on human engineering cycles, not the actual loop of "describe what you want → get it → tweak."

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@danshipper @Borthwick @betaworks living proof. i'm a product designer who couldn't write code a year ago. shipped a SwiftUI app to the App Store last week using Cursor. software stopped being engineering and became "can you describe what you want clearly enough." that's a design skill, not a coding skill.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@levelsio 100k players on games built by non-game-devs. this is what Cursor unlocked. i'm a product designer building a SwiftUI step tracker and the vibejam made me realize, the tooling gap between "idea person" and "shipped product" basically closed this year.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@thedankoe building is also my escape from feeling lost though. hard to tell the difference between building toward something and building to avoid sitting with yourself

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

@thedankoe the problem is my brain turns every side quest into a full-time obsession within 24 hours. started one podcast today, ended up designing a note-taking app in my head instead of pressing play

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

👀

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

i wanted to listen to a podcast today.

instead i spent 20 minutes deciding where to take notes. apple notes? notion? pen and paper? what if i need AI summarization later?

then i caught myself thinking about building a note-taking app specifically for podcasts.

i never pressed play.

this is the trap. optimizing the system instead of doing the thing. every time.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

i wanted to listen to a podcast today.

instead i spent 20 minutes deciding where to take notes. apple notes? notion? pen and paper? what if i need AI summarization later?

then i caught myself thinking about building a note-taking app specifically for podcasts.

i never pressed play.

this is the trap. optimizing the system instead of doing the thing. every time.

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

👀
https://t.co/JGOY6pNiAx

[Antonio Vidakovic @vida994]

today i figured out i don't need to build an app today.

i keep falling into the same trap. if i don't build this today, somebody is going to become a millionaire and that somebody could be me.

so i just start coding. not because i have a real problem to solve. because sitting with the discomfort of not building feels harder than building.

all the real problems are still there when i'm done. i just avoided them for 8 hours.