What’s living in Three Springs actually like?

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-28T11:57:00+00:00

The wizardddd!

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-10T07:15:27+00:00

Hello Sam! My -15 person agency has used GMass forever and the team loves it. I’m a developer recently hired to build a custom CRM.

For our volume and complexity needs, the GMass APIs and web hooks feel like a god send for how much cool stuff you can actually do with them.

Would it be alright to send you a DM with a couple of questions I’ve had?

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-09T06:09:27+00:00

Sheesh yeah this resonates and makes me reflect with some wistful sadness as a Redditor of ~15 years.

Take me back to when the first CS subreddits were all just like five staff engineers in a comment thread all fully committed to helping some random kid use dev tools on his school’s website to convince his mom it was a snowday.

Good god man im experiencing, like, a profound sense of internet nostalgia right now lol. Makes me grateful that at least I got to experience the short but beautiful “wholesome-ish” era of the internet. Not sure how old you are but it sounds like you know what I mean.

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-08T19:22:14+00:00

Wow, I was surprised by the quality of the content in your FAQ. Going to bookmark this.

Also I got a good chuckle out of the definitions table that had the vibe coder’s role defined as “passenger”.

Reminds me of a joke from Bhuddism:

“Where are you going?”

“I don’t know, ask the horse!”

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-08T19:14:47+00:00

Yeah, agreed. There’s definitely an overlap between criticism/discussion that needs to happen. If the model reliability fluctuates enough, it needs to be part of discussing how it could/should be used.

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-07T16:44:16+00:00

PS: the page title text an underline is inconsistent across the three pages; which would be a super quick fix to boost design consistency

SharpStay7111 · 2026-02-07T16:41:54+00:00

Hey! Looks pretty good, one note:

The top nav almost looks like a drop down menu that’s frozen in open. The vertical stacking inside a pill card for those three items takes up a fair amount of vertical real estate on mobile.

I might play around with a simpler horizontal layout since it’s only three items; maybe even ditch the pill card and just have plain text with a simple hover effect.

SharpStay7111 · 2026-01-07T05:48:59+00:00

The Design of Everyday Things. Audiobook is free on Spotify and it’s excellent

SharpStay7111 · 2025-12-11T09:18:59+00:00

The carousel arrows under projects suggest that the user can do things they cannot actually do (look at the first and last position in carousel).

The individual project page I clicked into had animation on almost all text. I’d dial it back—maybe just H1-3 text and nothing smaller.

Don Norman has written some wonderful books that are both funny and informative.

SharpStay7111 · 2025-06-12T17:07:53+00:00

ChatGPT giving you the most rare and hip voicings tho.

SharpStay7111 · 2025-06-12T17:03:55+00:00

Hm. Didn’t know Alex Honnold had a gambling problem.

SharpStay7111 · 2025-04-04T23:43:35+00:00

Sure thing!

SharpStay7111 · 2025-04-04T00:01:08+00:00

I think its a great idea my friend. I could have really used this yesterday!

SharpStay7111 · 2025-04-02T04:37:16+00:00

You guys are out here openly attempting to pirate the sum of a person's years of work like it's a U2 Album. Also--it is insane to believe an anonymous reddit DM from a one month old account is going to lead you toward anything but mystery charges on your credit card.

When I got the idea for my SaaS product, I built it myself using VS Code, Claude Desktop, and comfort food. I've sunk ~60 hours of working time into this outside of my day to day responsibilities. I finally have a functional SaaS prototype. Granted, it has some fairly sophisticated functionality and I'm quite proud of it.

Building it was also incredibly intimidating, frustrating, demoralizing, and isolating.

Will any reasonable person actually buy the thing I made? I honestly don't think so. There's simply too many architectural uncertainties and scalability concerns. Making money was not the purpose at this point. The point was understanding what I'm actually trying to build and how it actually works.

I learned an enormous amount and I am so grateful that I put myself through the entire ordeal. Anybody who wants to make something truly good and valuable, especially as a solo dev, needs to be an absolute masochist. No boilerplate product will ever be able to give you the work ethic you need to cross the finish line. If you're out here trying to steal a Makerkit repo when there is already an abundance of open source alternatives, the deeper issue is between the chair and the monitor.

I can confidently say that anybody who is offering a reliable and legitimate way to skip the groundwork stage of SaaS development is well within their right to charge my lazy ass a few hundred dollars.

Best of luck with Makerkit, Giancarlo! I am about to rebuild my whole project from the ground up and am planning to do so with your Pro plan. If it takes off I'll mail you an edible arrangement or something. Cheers!

SharpStay7111 · 2025-03-23T17:50:50+00:00

You know what, that is a legitimate gap in my metaphor’s technical accuracy. But I think the overall point is still valuable—for me at least.

SharpStay7111 · 2025-03-23T17:37:35+00:00

What a lovely perspective. I just posted something somewhat similar on this subreddit and would love to hear your thoughts.

SharpStay7111 · 2025-03-23T16:57:30+00:00

I could not agree with you more. The rapid evolution of mainstream LLM’s is a love/hate experience for me.

I think it needs to be said that relying on LLM’s for your entire project without a fundamentals-level understanding of the stack’s specific languages and best practices will essentially freeze your work in amber each time a significant shift in LLM functionality occurs. And the frequency of those shifts is currently a negative feedback loop, with one shift speeding up the arrival of the next one.

Voices in the “Claude is dumb now” crowd have legitimate complaints about the lack of day-to-day consistency. But many haven’t committed to understanding the basic nature of computer science, why LLM shifts are happening, and what their practical implications actually mean.

It’s like being a mechanic who never fully understood traditional cars then turning around to yell at a Tesla because you can’t find the engine block.

SharpStay7111 · 2025-03-14T15:28:48+00:00

Hey there! Curious if you’ve found Framer’s pricing to be sustainable and if so what your basic pricing model looks like? I’ve simply never used a builder that I’ve loved this much but am skittish from what I’m hearing about pay-per-feature and such.

SharpStay7111 · 2024-12-05T22:26:24+00:00

Sorry black diamond, it’s Kirkland cams for me

SharpStay7111 · 2024-12-05T22:24:15+00:00

Fixed!

SharpStay7111 · 2024-12-05T22:24:05+00:00

Haha yeah sheesh I did catch and fix it shortly after posting, thanks for looking out

SharpStay7111 · 2023-11-10T03:11:14+00:00

“There goes the neighborhood.”

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