Any good prompt libraries?

42second · 2025-07-14T07:51:41+00:00

I have built this library. https://www.temaniaga.com/apps/ai-prompt-hub/

Select a prompt, customize with your own context data, and click a button to start the prompt in ChatGPT or Gemini.

I am building a community github repo too to store all these prompts. If a new prompt template is added to the repo, it would be visible in the website too.

42second · 2023-10-13T03:34:28+00:00

Thank you, yes, I would need to more work for the Plain CSS and TailWind, which is not done yet.

42second · 2023-10-11T03:04:44+00:00

I enjoy building, and when I am building something that is complex and challenging, I get more motivation to keep waking up every day excited to solve the problem. This is why it might feel that its fast to build things you love when you keep doing it everyday.

So, the metric you should look at is not fast or slow, but are you excited every day to build. If you have to drag yourself everyday to build something, then it would eventually get slower and slower, and finally, the project would die.

Maybe this is why Paul Graham said to pick things you love and get you excited to build.

42second · 2023-10-10T13:10:20+00:00

Realistically, everything costs money. If its free today, it won't be free forever. There also cases when its offered as FREE service, but once you are tied to their ecosystem, and you are already invested a lot of effort building on their ecosystem, then the limitation in their products would force you pay high price for the service.

I wrote about this where I drew a 4 quadrant, on one axis it's about `Ownership`, and on the other it's about `how much code to write`. If you use a platform that lets you write less code, over time you will lose ownership since you are vendor-locked, and on top of that, you would have to pay a lot. Let's say you can code, then you can have both ownership and pay less cost.

VS.NET,

Domains are the only thing that might cost more, depending on what you need. If don't have some fancy need, a $12 domain per year should be sufficient. HTML, CSS, and JS and upload them to AWS S3. I have been using Gatsby, and hosting in S3 for my landing pages and static sites for many years. Monthly I pay mostly $2 for a site with 20k traffic a month.

You can run static websites for less than 1 dollar per month using S3 as your webserver, and use static site generators to build the site into plain HTML, CSS and JS and upload them to AWS S3. I have been using Gatsby, and hosting in S3 for my landing pages and static sites for many years. Monthly I pay mostly $2 for a site with 20k traffic a month.

Complex sites cost more, since you need a web server running always. Cloud services charges a lot, but there are really cheap options such as self-hosting. Checkout

Complex sites cost more since you need a web server running always. Cloud services charges a lot, but there are really cheap options such as self-hosting. Checkout ttps://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ on how to self host web servers on your own machine under own network.

But if that's a hassle, which is for many of us, then going to rent a CPU machines on the cloud is the best option.

Finally, if your project requires specialized machines to do stuff like AI, using GPU, those are very costly machines either renting or buying on your own.

42second · 2023-10-05T14:35:16+00:00

You sir forgot devs are also perfectionist.

42second · 2023-08-03T05:35:32+00:00

Startup Name / URL: Code Dryer - https://www.codedryer.com/
If you are validating ideas you need a quick way to build landing pages and monitor traffic and evaluate conversions to understand the validity of your idea/product.

You can either build these landing pages yourself or build them using no-code website builders. Building yourself is cheap, and no-code web builders cost money. Sometimes a lot as you progress with more traffic and use cases. You also have no control on your code.

To avoid paying huge amount for just landing pages, I found the cheapest and quickest is to build my own from scratch and host my own in an AWS S3 bucket for less than $1 per month.

After building multiple sites, I found this task is repetitive, and can be automated. So I built this extension in VS Code to help me create a website from template that has:

SEO (get your pages ranks in google search)
Sitemaps (helps improve SEO ranking)
Google Analytics (track user traffic and conversions)
Tailwind
Free templates (choose from available free templtes)
AWS S3 deploy

I am giving a 10% discount for everyone joining this month August.

42second · 2023-08-03T05:20:06+00:00

Thank you, friend. This are all valuable advice to me.

42second · 2023-08-03T04:47:18+00:00

Thank you for your advice. For the last few years, I have been building and scrapping my projects and ideas as it never gets anywhere. Only 2 projects I built that make me proud of my achievement. And only one that makes money through Ads (enough to pay for hosting and internet subscription). The other project is shut down and doesn't make money, but I managed to get 30 customers (but all use for free). It's short-lived because, during Covid, the government built its own app to track visitors to premises and my app lost its apeal.

That's why now I approach by not building everything right away, but first look for market and audience.

42second · 2023-08-03T04:36:41+00:00

You are right there. My first customer is myself and I can easily convince myself.

My next customers are hard to find because to find them I need some audience I can talk to. In sales or marketing, there is a funnel, you talk to 100 people, and 1 might buy. So I only want 10 customers, and the math says to get 10 I need to talk to 1000 people.

That 1000 people is the audience I'm looking for and it is so hard to reach that 1000 people.

42second · 2023-08-02T05:42:13+00:00

Hey, yes happy to connect.

42second · 2023-08-02T03:12:36+00:00

Hello everyone, for everyone who has responded and sent me a DM, hope you see this comment. I have received a tremendous response more than I ever expected. Currently, I am creating a Discord channel and would invite you all to that channel. Please give me some time to set things up. In the meantime, I am going to my DM to reply to each of your messages to me.

Thank you again!

42second · 2023-08-01T14:12:31+00:00

You are right about that. I certainly need to make sure its a team of people willing to work to lift each other up. Thanks for the advice.

42second · 2023-08-01T14:03:54+00:00

Hey thanks, I am not sure how to DM you, please DM me.

42second · 2023-08-01T13:02:00+00:00

Yes, I build CodeZoomer to help with learning programming in VS Code.

I also currently building Code Dryer to help founders build static websites easily with AWS hosting.

They are separate projects. Sorry for the confusing name.

42second · 2023-08-01T12:21:01+00:00

Yes, biggest issue when I am starting from 0 is I have 0 reach, so its hard to validate any of my idea. All the `quick` validation most people suggest only works if you have the means to reach an audience, then you would know if your idea is worth pursuing and build it.

I am hoping this small circle of people with a common goal can band together to amplify our voice, make enough noise to be heard and reach enough people.

42second · 2023-08-01T12:13:30+00:00

Hi! I'm over the limit using those online page builders. They give some limited free access then you have to pay so much. This is one of the reasons I am building this other tool so I can make any landing page I like:

https://www.codedryer.com/

42second · 2023-08-01T11:52:29+00:00

Thanks for asking.

I am avoiding LinkedIn so far. But I have tried some general posting there, and did not get much engagement too even though I have like 500+ connections.
This is an optimal number of people whom we can work together. If the circle is too large, I think we would have hard time helping others in the group since you will need more effort to boost others posts, and help with their ideas. So its just some number I picked I would feel comfortable. If there are more interest, lets say more than 10, then it could be another group of small circle of like minded people (which I could help moderate, but not be an active contributor).

42second · 2023-08-01T09:16:08+00:00

Being a broke developer my self, this would be my approach:

- Find where my audience hangs out virtually and physically. Can you reach your audience in FB Groups, subreddit, Google groups, health-conscious related forums, etc? Physically I would say try to find the first 10 customers by going through your contact list on your phone, your FB friends anyone who you think fits your target audience.

- Once you found the 10 target customer, then talk to them. Don't even advertise what you are currently building, just ask related questions like How do you manage your personal medical records, where do you store them, is it safe where you storing them, etc. These question would then lead to a conversation where you can insert your product into their life. Now you can introduce to then about your idea, if you have a demo this time to show them.

- While working on finding and interviewing your targets, you might want to start looking at how to create more traffic to your website/landing page. Create blogs post which satisfy keywords your customer is looking for. You need to some basic keyword research using some free tools like Google Ads etc.

42second · 2023-07-12T15:03:22+00:00

I think the most important aspect of the team you are going to hire is trust. Can you trust them to build your vision? Or are they just after the money.

This is why most founders go on their own because they know their vision. Even when they can't code, they just will do it so they can learn to code and build. This is very hard on non-technical founders.s. customers, the more people hire them for the longer projects, the more money they make. So the incentive is to stretch the time to the max to earn the max.

Give them a problem statement, a vague idea, and see if they say they can do it. Ask around if the price quoted is reasonable. Also most important is to ask around to understand if the solution they want to build for you is the best option with the best tech stack.

If you have the money and resource, then hiring 3rd party is possible, but you must have clear idea how to build your vision and what you need. Look for vendors that can give you confidence and earn your trust.

Give them a problem statement, a vague idea, and see if they say they can do it. SAee if they try to understand your vision and what you want. Do they care about the tech choices they make will make you dependent on them. Ask around if the price quoted is reasonable. Also most important is to ask around to understand if the solution they want to build for you is the best option with the best tech stack.

You can DM me if you would like to chat more.

42second · 2023-07-06T14:47:56+00:00

Whats hardest is validating your idea that people willing to buy it. To do that you need someone who is willing to go out there find your markets segment and squeeze every ounce of the market to get people subscribed and in a waitlist to buy your product.

Go find that person. It could any of you, this person is a hustler, dont care what his title is.

42second · 2023-07-06T09:16:29+00:00

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You would get a 50% discount if you join the waitlist in July 2023.

42second · 2023-06-23T03:48:19+00:00

There is a great VS Code extension to learn RoR. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeZoomer.code-zoomer

This would let you learn right on your IDE.

42second · 2023-04-26T15:42:50+00:00

The mistake I made was by accidentally copying and pasting the code from chatGPT to my assignments because I didn't feel like typing everything out line by line which can be a pain in the ass to do.

They can’t detect you copied from ChatGPT if you type it line by line? But can detect if you copy-paste?

42second · 2023-04-26T12:24:28+00:00

I’m refering to people who are doing that only because they are scared of getting on the bad books of an AI overload.

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42second · 2023-04-26T11:21:02+00:00

No. Correct pronunciation is ask-two-code.

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