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spikey_sanju

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About spikey_sanju

designer founder @ ThisUX – design studio,

https://thisux.com (company i run) https://sanju.sh (personal website)

currently building:

https://fli.so https://dunsuite.com https://uiino.com https://glance.sticai.com https://sticai.com https://spotlight.thisux.com

reach me at work[at]sanju[dot]sh

Recent public activity

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    Show HN: DroidClaw – Turn old Android phones into AI agents

    Hey all, I built an open-source tool that lets you give an Android phone a goal in plain English. It reads the accessibility tree, sends the UI state to an LLM, executes actions vi…

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    Hey HN. I built DunSocial because I kept ghosting my own social media. Had things to share but hated the process. Every scheduler assumes you have content ready. I never did. So I …

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    Comment #46391659

    Read Foundation Capital's essay on decision traces. Good insight, too many words. Made a simpler version with interactive examples

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    Comment #43561560

    Hey — if I could tell past-me one thing, Stop asking people how your design looks. That question invites vague feedback from people who don’t use your thing. You want behavior. Fri…

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    Comment #43526711

    Hey folks, I wrote a short blog on something I’ve been thinking about—what happens when AI starts to understand taste? Everyone talks about AI replacing coders and writers. But wha…

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    Comment #42497719

    Hey all, I explain in the blog how focusing on the most important task helps me move forward. I stopped multitasking and started making real progress. - Sanju

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    Comment #42333303

    Made up? Hardly. I hear you, but reality isn’t as tidy as a research paper. Planning only gets you so far; timing and luck do the rest. IYKYK!

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    Comment #42332692

    Plans are guesses... treating them as facts is the real danger. Adapt as you learn, or they become traps.

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    Comment #42332658

    "It's too hard to change the plan now" +1 Agreed. Plans fail when sticking to them matters more than adapting... TBH, the best plans know when to shift. Flexibility > Rigidity

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    Comment #42332537

    This is the whole point of the post... Success rarely comes from what we aim for—it’s often about timing & flow. Perfection can hold us back, but staying open leads to breakthrough…

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    Comment #42332176

    Here are a couple of Reddit threads on accidental inventions. It’s wild how small, unexpected moments led to some of the biggest discoveries ever. Uncertainty has its own kind of m…

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    Comment #42332072

    Exactly. 'That's funny…' is when you realize you were looking at it wrong all along...

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    Comment #42331950

    Yeah, I totally get it... When you let things flow instead of sticking to a rigid plan, you end up finding better ideas. It’s like the pressure’s off, and the real work happens nat…

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    Comment #42331873

    Yeah, planning can feel like a trap sometimes. But take the example of the discovery of penicillin. It was a fluke... If the scientist had followed rigid steps, he might’ve missed …

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    Comment #42331161

    Why do some of our best ideas come out of nowhere? This post talks about how planning too much can kill creativity, and why greatness often shows up when you least expect it.

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    Comment #42299338

    Hey Sanju here, Fli.so is a simple, self-hosted URL shortener built for businesses. It lets you create branded short links, track their performance, and add features like password …

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    Comment #41695767

    I just scraped this HN comments & blog post, fed them to NotebookLLM, and BAM! This podcast was born. Mind blown. https://x.com/spikeysanju/status/1840708506749399479

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    Show HN: Tired of Missing GitHub Updates? Try This AI Tool

    I got tired of checking GitHub for updates all the time. So, I made this tool. It helps you keep track of your favorite projects. Just add the links, and it will tell you when ther…