John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

20y Technical Product Designer & Brand. Design Thinker.
Building and from an Farm.

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Onboarding test: can a stranger reach the aha screen with zero help from you? If not, the design is not done, the pitch is just good. #UX #productdesign #startups

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

I keep the studio at one person on purpose. The work is better when one taste runs through the research, the brand, and the code. #founders #design #solopreneur

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

One harness, every model, your terms. I did not want a wrapper that picks the model for me and marks up my tokens. I wanted the controls, so I built them. https://t.co/16kGDljj8v #AI #devtools #buildinpublic

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Taste is the moat now that anyone can generate anything. Deciding what not to make is the job. #AI #design #founders

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

No algorithm was a product decision, not a missing feature. On Holy Nations a human curates every video, podcast, and niggun. Trust is the feature. https://t.co/OE0MoDdG9T #Jewish #productdesign #Torah

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Queued 24 requests and let them run in parallel instead of babysitting one at a time. The tool should wait, not you. That is Queue and Branch Out in Overwatch. https://t.co/16kGDljj8v #AI #productivity #buildinpublic

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

I ship the ugly version first now. The market edits better than I do. #buildinpublic #startups #founders

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Five pillars, one home: Prayer and Parasha, Torah, Videos, Podcasts, Music. I built Holy Nations so a whole practice does not live across eight apps. https://t.co/OE0MoDdG9T #Jewish #Torah #buildinpublic

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Never stop showing your work. Post the empty state, the bug, the fix, the ship. People find the project through the process, not the launch. #buildinpublic #founders #indiehackers

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Stop paying one model to be good at everything. Overwatch lets me test the same prompt across providers in one session and keep the best answer, without burning the token budget twice. https://t.co/16kGDljj8v #AI #devtools #indiehackers

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Holy Nations covers the daily davener and the curious learner in one app: a five-minute Torah segment or a multi-part course from vetted teachers. Same home, different depth. https://t.co/OE0MoDdG9T #Torah #Jewish #learning

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Render the hero image from the real product screen, never a mockup. If the hero is a lie, the whole landing page is. #design #marketing #productdesign

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Started a task on my desktop, finished it from my phone on the train. Same live session, no re-explaining. That handoff is why Overwatch is desktop and mobile, not one or the other. https://t.co/16kGDljj8v #AI #buildinpublic #mobile

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Design a product in one line. If your one-liner needs an and, cut until it does not. Overwatch: every model, one harness. #productdesign #startups #buildinpublic

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Ashkenazi or Sephardi, switch the whole siddur with one tap. Shacharit, Mincha, Maariv, with translation and audio. Building Holy Nations meant respecting that one nusach fits all was never true. https://t.co/OE0MoDdG9T #Jewish #Torah #Judaism

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Models love to say done when they finished half the work. Overwatch has a Master Controller that tracks completion and catches the silent skip. Trust, but verify, in software. https://t.co/16kGDljj8v #AI #devtools #buildinpublic

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

A stat that reads null looks broken to a user. Guard your defaults. A blank number is a bug, not a state. #productdesign #UX #engineering

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

The empty state is the hardest screen and the last one most people design. I do it first now. It sets the honesty of the whole app. #productdesign #UX #buildinpublic

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

Every other app optimizes for time-on-screen. Holy Nations has no feed and no algorithm. Every shiur and niggun is hand-picked. The point is to learn and leave, not scroll. https://t.co/OE0MoDdG9T #Jewish #Torah #productdesign

[John Trabelsi 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @weoverdoingit]

The feature I use most in Overwatch: Scrapbook. Every rule and decision persists across sessions, so the model never forgets what we settled yesterday. Memory is the real unlock, not a bigger context window. https://t.co/16kGDljj8v #AI #productdesign #buildinpublic