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Connect your coding tool to a browser (like with the playwright MCP) and just let it iterate on its own until it matches the design you want.

I agree with everything except for Kamal. I'm happy to have someone else handle the server side maintenance. Maybe once my service grows so huge that handling it myself makes sense…

Lightweight umbrellas.

I find that if you check when the LLM's data was updated, and then choose a framework/language version release date that's before that, then it's pretty good. In my case I use tail…

You built a product first and then are searching for the market for it? That's tough. If you do it in reverse, find the market first and then build a product for them, it's 100x ea…

The llm just returns a method name and arguments to pass it. Your code is in charge of actually executing it, and then replying with an answer.

There’s some YouTubers that release weekly videos about AI news. I suggest you search around for ones that suit your interests.

Friendster was one of the first big social networks but the amount of users slowed it down. That made everyone move over to MySpace/Facebook. If I remember right, Friendster had a …

The 4-Hour Workweek - motivated me to start my own business and now I have a lot of flexibility in my life.

http://bookmooch.com/ It's a great way to trade your books with others. And you can pick and choose from others' collections. Plus it's a good way to get rid of any extra books you…

I setup mine to automatically restart every night and it fixed a lot of issues.

I had the first one Venmo me just to verify people are willing to pay. Then I setup a quick solution using a no-code platform. Maybe down the line I’ll build a fully custom one but…

Well, did you improve the product based on what the "free candy" people said? Were you able to determine the reasons they didn't buy and then improve your product accordingly? Seem…

I reached out to my friends to email-intro me to anyone who might be interested in my product. That mutual connection made it so that people were way more willing to jump on a call…

Amazon directly competes with Netflix and they get along fine. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix/

Reach out to your network or email your friends to put you in contact with potential users. It should be moderately easy since you're just asking for a free Skype call, you're not …

You won't get enough data if you ask them to fill out a survey. If you try a single interview you'll see why. You'll end up with pages of notes and venture into problems you had no…

Indie Hackers lists lots of examples you can read about. Just filter on employee count and revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1?employeeCount...

First step is to validate the problem. Ask 20 people in your target market about their biggest problems. If they bring up the problem early in the conversation, you know you got a …

“How to Win Friends and Influence People” is a good one. It’s a nice reminder on how to treat people.

First piece of advice is to get it in front of potential users ASAP (if you haven't yet). Just to make sure you're going in the right direction. Even just mockups or wireframes is …

Pretty much all businesses are automatable. Just hire good people and have good processes in place for them to follow. For example, WP Curve was even able to automate the process o…

500-1M USD? If you hire full-time US workers then that's probably the case. For me I hired a few remote part-timers around the world. So it costs me an order of magnitude less. And…

Start any business and just hire good people to run it for you. I have a SaaS. I have a support person, product manager, and developer. Between them they handle 90% of the day to d…