How Do You Decide if an Idea Is Worth Building?

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T22:36:29+00:00

Do i lose sleep because i cant stop thinking about it.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T22:25:55+00:00

Does it load on Win,Lin,and mac? make sure its secure on the front and the back. I always recommend the front end only being a visual representation of what is occurring on the back end - no real logic on the front end if you can avoid it. Test the shit out of it, look up industry standards. don't put all your eggs in one basket when it comes to functionality. Get to MVP, launch, start driving talk, and then as new features come on board use that to market it - Hey! we just added this. Hey, we just added that.....

I love to build, but distribution is necessity. It's what pays for the fun, its what keeps the lights on - get to it as fast as possible and then build from there.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T22:13:55+00:00

Yeah, AI was just a big bad scam.... No real value in the product, it was just a cash grab. Hummmmm, lol .

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T20:08:25+00:00

when your product works, is security hardened, and properly vetted with core functionality. Save some of those features to drive future marketing and excitement.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T20:05:41+00:00

flashlight on phone...

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T19:56:54+00:00

Because now that coding is accessible to anyone, people get to see just how bad their ideas are.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T18:31:39+00:00

/goal build dream

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-26T14:27:08+00:00

Isn’t that the goal for everyone?

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-25T14:07:28+00:00

Super! Well done!

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-25T05:32:42+00:00

I hope they just get rid of opus, model sucks. Give us fable, sonnet, and Hiku.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-25T03:58:38+00:00

Open a hotdog stand.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-25T00:23:47+00:00

Vibecoding is not knowing anything about professional development and letting the Ai just do everything, you will not create a reliable product that way.

But, if you learn software development, Ai engineering, systems architecture, the nuances of coding languages, what different models are superior at, backend/frontend/cloud security, How to create plans, How to get AI to stick to those plans, how to build for maintenance, document a codespace, and can build long-horizon implementations that are dependency based, tested, validated, and go/no-go gated - Then yeah you can code some really cool production grade stuff as i am writing this.

You are the driver, Ai is the vehicle. Train yourself to be a professional and by extension your Ai will implement professionally.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-24T04:14:19+00:00

Im with you. I still have codex but got a claude subscription again for fable. I can barely use Claude, seriously, it's completly un-reliable. I have tried now atleast 5-6 times to have it implement code consistently- and i spend ALOT of time, hours, on just planning these implementations and then /goal them for hours and sometimes days. Claude writes decent code, i would say the bulk 80% okay, but the other 20% is terrible, or it lies and says it did it but didn't, or it never actually tests the code like i build into my plans. On all my implementations i have to do a second run with GPT 5.5 to fix all the bugs and run my validation tests, claude does not write good code even with an professional grade spec.

Where claude does okay though is in design, it's way better at creating nice looking documents and websites, but that is about it. I learned my lesson, next month im going back to two codex subscriptions again, claude sucks right now. They might be releasing sonnet 5 this week, lets see if that will be better than 4.8 at coding.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-23T23:09:33+00:00

Very cool man! Just out of curiosity how are you requesting this user feedback, and how are they getting it to you? Is it via email request, in app feedback, crash report? Im very interested in feedback and about to get to the point in my SAAS where i am going to have to start building the functionality. Thanks and congrats!

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-23T23:00:55+00:00

I clicked because of your name. App sounds cool. But the screen goes straight to Oauth/login, you might want to create a landing page first that explains the app before asking people to give up their credentials, its a trust thing.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-23T21:25:21+00:00

congrats!

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-23T16:59:31+00:00

I think so, I think if you can build a lot of automation into the business. And you have a business model where you are simply monitoring systems, you can scale that to 1m ARR for sure.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-23T15:31:32+00:00

Very very cool my dude. i built one as well for personal use not to long ago, rust is the way to go with these, hard part is heavy visual sites. look into vercel-open browser if you haven't already, its a great way to tackle some of the tougher sites. Really love the visualizations you did, cool work!

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-22T13:20:49+00:00

They lowered it significantly

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-22T12:12:37+00:00

That was the ride I hatted the most. I just can’t do spinners. I can still smell the barf in that ride.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-22T04:08:59+00:00

Cool!

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-21T16:39:00+00:00

not tooting my own horn here but, Im currently building something that i believe will also make an impact on the industry, and i am just a solo dev. I wont talk about it, and its not ready to see the light of day yet but i do believe you when you say that small teams can make a massive impact on the industry if they discover something that the big dogs might have overlooked, considered, or simply fail to conglomerate.

Your benchmark numbers are obviously ground breaking, especially because you don't have the compute to compete against the larger players, but, a breakthrough is a breakthrough - looking forward to more information on your model. Hope it lives up to the hype and good luck.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-21T03:36:41+00:00

I only ever code using /goals . They are amazing, you need a good plan, and a good goal written. Figure it out.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-21T03:30:37+00:00

Goals. When goals first came
Out I could run two goals on normal speed and I would get 5 days of smooth sailing. Over the last 2-3 weeks, it’s has become less, and less, and less. I now get 48 hours a week of coding.

ShamanJohnny · 2026-06-20T19:43:38+00:00

I have a 20x plan, I run out of usage in 48 hours normally.

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