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RT shadcn What Claude Code actually chooses if you ask it to build with no tool names anywhere in the input. Original tweet: https://x.com/shadcn/status/2027062972753866796
insane success story from @HackerResidency batch 0 i'd love to say HRG was the reason these guys are growing so quickly, but the truth is Brian & Yen were going to find success no matter what – HRG just helped to accelerate them 🔥 • @brianshinsh and @yenisdesigning were the very first residents to have their workstations set up on day 0 when most people were still arriving. locked in, BUILDING, the whole time 💪 • they took every advantage of having experts in the house like @alexcooldev to up their tiktok game which ended up proving crucial to their app's success • brian had previously raised over $15M in venture funding and thoroughly understands the game he's playing. for this product, he very intentionally decided not to raise venture and to instead bootstrap with his partner, yen, with 1 goal in mind: to build something meaningful with care and never have to worry about money again • i know brian was really inspired by @tdinh_me, so being able to chat w/ him during the batch and learn surfing from him seemed like a really impactful experience that helped to balance the long hours of locking in building • once thing i don't think most people appreciate is that brian and yen complement each other so well. @yenisdesigning is definitely Once's secret weapon. the care and depth of design & marketing skill + taste that she brings to the product are unmistakable. this is something that most indie hackers are missing 💯 • every. single. day. they were just so locked in. HRG definitely helped provide a container away from their normal lives where the intention was 100% focused on building, and i think that helped them to make so much progress on building and shipping a very unique and mature mobile app in only 30 days, but that wouldn't have been possible without their innate drive and mindset that can only come from within 🔥 • lastly, they both were really open to helping out other residents in the batch. whether it was creating a fun meme video w/ @robj3d3 a...
we crossed $20k/mo in 83 days instead of everything that went right, here are the mistakes we made (so you don't make them!) : 1. During the early days, we tried too many marketing channels due to fomo. - we literally tried SEO, pSEO, meta ads, google keyword ads, tiktok
cloudflare out here mogging vercel at their own game 🔥
It’s Next.js Liberation Day. The #1 request we kept hearing: help us run Next fast and secure, without the lock-in and the costs. So we did it. We kept the amazing DX of @nextjs, without the bespoke tooling, built on @vite. We’re working with other providers to make deployment
View quoted postanthropic should do something cool w/ the claude GH page at least add a readme with a cute claude character and link to the docs
bro really really hates his decision to buy this condo 😂
It's that time of year... Selling my SF condo. Open house tomorrow (2/22). • 2 bd, 2bath penthouse • 1,688 sq ft w/ rooftop patio • Rincon hill, near the water • 2 parking spots Link with details below. :)
was chatting with a dev recently for @HackerResidency and asked what language his backend was written in his answer: english 😂 i freaking love it he's german and responded so matter-of-factly that it i couldn't help but stifle a laugh.. the underlying programming language didn't even cross his mind, just that he uses english instead of german when prompting. coding is changing so quickly for context, i generally ask a series of probing questions trying to get a sense of a founder's technical / marketing / sales XP, digging into why they made certain decisions, what they're blocked on, etc gonna have to recalibrate my vetting process for 100% AI-native workflows, though i still think it's incredibly useful to understand high-level aspects of your app's architecture huge props btw if you can guess which german indie hacker this was 👀
update on @HackerResidency interviews: ✅ 500 submissions vetted 🤯 ✅ 20 interviews so far ✅ 50 more interview requests sent out to promising candidates (some of these are already scheduled; some will likely not respond) 🟥 400 rejected (will be sending out notices this weekend) really really strong builders this time around 💪 final invites will go out by end of the month!!
my favorite part of @hackerresidency interviews is getting to chat w/ dope, hard-working builders like @PabloSantanaT and @AntonioEscudero 💪 it's sooooo freaking energizing talking to all these amazing builders. really great for perspective && makes me wanna step up my game
i wanted my own @openclaw stickers but couldn't find any good ones, so i created a lil shop 🦞 stickers: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/OpenClaw-Logo-by-transitive-bs/178442529.JCQM3 merch (shirts, hats, etc): https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/178442529 just the lobster: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/178444258 (not expecting any profits here, but will donate to openclaw contributors on github if there are)
my current @openclaw model fallbacks setup: - anthropic claude plan first - openai chatgpt/codex plan second - openrouter's "auto" model as a solid catchall fallback and for heartbeats (paid api key) - and lastly, openai's api in case openrouter's ever down (also paid api key) it's not perfect but it's been working well enough for me so far and i like that it's relatively cheap, simple, and reliable you can copy the json here: https://gist.github.com/transitive-bullshit/e73c40b8ff6eaedc94f791864a0ee04e --- i also checked out ClawRouter. i really really like the dynamic routing profiles, but i want to use _my existing subscriptions_ and _my existing free api credits_ from these big providers (from hackathons/startup programs). i'd like ClawRouter a lot more if the provider auth profiles were decoupled from x402 (tho x402 is dope af in and of itself and i could see this changing if a company like @OpenRouter were to go all-in on supporting this direction and i could eg transfer my existing credits there) that being said, the main thing missing from this setup is intelligent model routing instead of just sequential fallbacks, so main question is: 👉 how can i improve this setup? 👈
escape normie prison you'll have to crawl through a tunnel of shit for a while but once you taste true financial freedom, it's so fucking worth it so stop scrolling && start building
applications for @HackerResidency are now closed! will be reviewing and sending out interviews over the next 2 days, final decisions by end of the month 🔥 we updated the dates to just 4 weeks: May 1 – 31, 2026 (4 weeks is a more manageable budget for us than 6 weeks for this batch; everything else stays the same) thank you for applying && looking forward to talking with many of you SOON 😊
YOOOOOOOOOO stoked to announce the second batch @HackerResidency.. and it's even bigger this time! 12 founders, 6 weeks, 1 dope villa come lock in and BUILD with us all for *free* we provide: - luxury villa - up to $100k in funding 🔥 - free food, laundry, workspace - tons of
1/3 some assets to make your own @openclaw stickers @steipete this logo from github has so much more character the current one 🦞2/3 with white outlines3/3 without white outlines (some sticker places add them automatically)
here's a PNG @openclaw logo for making stickers 🦞 i like this one from the github readme better than the official logo, so i had my agent edit it to better fit the form factor for stickers
update on @HackerResidency timeline: final deadline to apply is this sunday, feb 15th! i'll be sending out interview invites early next week, and final decisions will be made by the end of feb 💪 been going through the applications && i'm so fucking stoked & honored to have so many dope builders interested in our lil experiment. looking forward to speaking w/ many of you SOON 😊
YOOOOOOOOOO stoked to announce the second batch @HackerResidency.. and it's even bigger this time! 12 founders, 6 weeks, 1 dope villa come lock in and BUILD with us all for *free* we provide: - luxury villa - up to $100k in funding 🔥 - free food, laundry, workspace - tons of
playing w/ @openclaw incredibly powerful & well-done project.. but my favorite part is that it's just fun & doesn't take itself too seriously 🦞
YOOOOOOOOOO stoked to announce the second batch @HackerResidency.. and it's even bigger this time! 12 founders, 6 weeks, 1 dope villa come lock in and BUILD with us all for *free* we provide: - luxury villa - up to $100k in funding 🔥 - free food, laundry, workspace - tons of AI credits - 1:1 mentorship w/ @tdinh_me + @transitive_bs + (secret)... & a demo day at the end w/ your own YC-style pitch our last batch ended up being wayyy more successful than we were expecting.. we had over a dozen product launches, 3 acquisition offers, ~30M X impressions, and most importantly, the VIBESSSS were fucking amazing 💪 so we had to double down && run it back
RT Tony Dinh We are doing this again! And it's even bigger this time. 10 founders, 6 weeks, 1 luxury villa, 0 distractions. Let’s lock in and build together. Everything free. Only 10 slots available. Apply here: http://hackerresidencygroup.com Original tweet: https://x.com/tdinh_me/status/2011786816312262779
I met a few indie friends in Da Nang, Vietnam earlier this year and we decided to host a 1-month hacker house this November! We rented a villa (pics below) for the location. The point is to create a distraction-free cowork space to lock in and build your startup with 9 other
WHOAAAAAA my verified whatsapp acct of 10 years just got banned for the second time in a week w/ a real chance at losing access permanently i had no idea this was possible this is likely due to @beeper which i generally love, but it seems a bunch of other people have had the same issue!! beeper's an unofficial third-party client which is def not worth risking losing my whatsapp account over (as a digital nomad, i basically live on whatsapp), but beeper doesn't tell you this could happen even though their support team has to have seen this happen thousands of times already... i've had to resort to switching back to whatsapp desktop + beeper for all other platforms which is awkward and whatsapp desktop UX is just objectively worse has anyone else run into this? any reliable alternatives? i would legit pay whatsapp $$ in order to be able to use a better third-party desktop client ala beeper
1/3 the library nav should be fixed and consistent, not dynamic.. the main content home page should be used for this dynamic stuff to get to my playlists on spotify mobile (ios), i have to click "your library" ⇒ "playlists" ⇒ "by you" ⇒ and then finally select the playlist i want 4 clicks to get to one of my playlists for an app where this is the 95% use case... WTF even worse, the mobile app doesn't remember these nav settings so i have to do this _every single time i open the app_ ... WTF this goes for both desktop and mobile2/3 why can i only have 4 pins? i have literally hundreds of playlists, and this constraint is so arbitrary i should be able to pin as many playlists as i want OR even better, the primary nav should be predictable and FIXED just have the main library nav be persistent so i can order things around instead of the dynamic mess it currently is these are the only 2 nav settings i personally ever use3/3 on desktop, i keep spotify on either the left half or right half of my screen most of the time i often want to view the number of streams for songs at this width as a proxy measure for popularity, but this column is hidden at this responsive breakpoint so i find myself often widening the window just a bit to view the stream counts, then using a hotkey to go back to half width.... but spotify doesn't remember the previous/preferred pane distance on the left-hand side (it keeps wanting to have massive negative space in-btwn my library and the main window). super annoying, and should be a table-stakes UX feature for a company of this scale
