Happy new year everyone! 🎇
This year I want fewer goals and better questions.
Not “How do I grow faster?”
But “What’s worth growing at all?”
What question are you carrying into this year?
AI era: The time when the senior software engineer role makes sense.
Review. Review. Review.
Since you covered how the role of software engineers is changing, it’ll enrich the topic when you cover other things that people made. And it’s not necessary to write your perspective imo. But it’s up to you.
Good article, Michiel! If you want to, you can cover the latest games by Levels and whatnot. Since then, some better quality games emerged and made money too.
Thanks Michiel. Which blog post is that? :)
All of them :)
Windsurf pro tip:
-/ Use 3.7 (thinking) for writing
-/ Use 3.7 or 3.5 for chatting
You can thank me later.
Enjoy the vibe! 🕺
Ha, likewise then! LFG! 🔥
Love it, Val. You’ve set a high standard on your journey. And I’m sure many have been inspired by following you. I’m one of them.
3/ After some time, I realized that to keep going is easier and has more chances to reach my goals.
Perhaps I’m stubborn. But I know I don’t want to look back one day and say, I regret not doing that.
How about you?
2/ But then I took a break and closed my eyes. I asked these simple questions:
– Why do I do it?
– Do I still want it?
– How bad do you want it?
1/ There were times in my indie journey when I just wanted to give up.
– Customers churn
– Fraud and abuse
– Little to no conversion
– You name it
✨ I'm working on a new project: Uneed Games
UG will be a launch platform similar tu Uneed, but dedicated to video games
Wanna be notified when we launch? www.uneedgames.com
I feel you, Rafal. For me, I let myself feel things and not get beaten by them—it’s hard tho.
In the case of new customers, I see it as a chance to serve them in the best possible way.
But yeah, it’s easier to be said than done.
Spot on! So then I bet the 4th time founders succeed 😁
Exactly. In no time though, they'll learn that a great product is also marketing 😄
First time founders start with code.
Second time founders start with potential customers + landing page + etc.
Marketing, marketing, marketing.
Despite the greatness of Next.js and Astro, has any of you built and maintained a landing page that's built with Vite and React? What are the downsides?
I'm considering detangling the stack from the ever-changing JS ecosystem here.
Is it on Windsurf? If yes, I bet they have some additional prompts.
3.7 tends to overengineer in some cases, making it hard to debug or detangle the resulting code. And 3.5 has proven itself as the wisest engineer so far :)
Use 3.7 for architecting and/or implementing a feature.
Use 3.5 for focused tasks.
Now we have a superteam of engineers.
And guess what?
You are now getting promoted to be the CTO.
Oh, I thought it’s a $599 course. I’m churning now 🫣
With your shovel? Sure! 😄
Whereas, OpenAI o3-mini-high picked one thing, and the resulting design flowed nicely.
Anyone experiencing the same?
P.S. I didn't use the thinking mode.
Is it just me?
I tried the same prompt in Claude Sonnet 3.7 and OpenAI o3-mini-high for a simple design decision in React code.
Claude Sonnet 3.7 decided to follow the design convention, but it followed the code that I've commented out.
Continued... 👇
Yeah, maybe… Perhaps encourage your subscribers to reply to your newsletter too? That could become *your* community.
Agreed with the click-baity stuff. I'm yet to find a YTer that shares authentic and unfiltered things. But probably they have different goals.
Perhaps I'm missing out, but any favorite indie YTers?
Claude Sonnet 3.7 is nice...
Until you get rate limited 🥹
That's cool, Tom. Thanks for sharing! :)
