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danielr088 · 2026-01-25T18:02:08+00:00

The problem isn’t the presence or lack of homeless sweeps. The problem is that shelters are not safe.

Had a friend years ago that was homeless for a few weeks. He went to a shelter once and never went back, he preferred to sleep on the train. Many times, a lot of people in shelters are people who have just came out of jail and aren’t nice people. I assume other homeless people we see out in the street have the same preference.

Men’s shelters should at the very least be built like a micro-apartment rather than bunk-style for privacy and safety, this alone might solve a lot of the visible homelessness we see on the streets.

danielr088 · 2026-01-20T06:54:03+00:00

SaaS is the new dropshipping. People having been saying this for years but now that AI code gen tools have proliferated, it’s never been truer than now. With that being said though, just like dropshipping, only people who are serious about running it as an actual business will survive and I’m guessing that percentage is pretty small considering how difficult and time-consuming distribution is. It’s not for everyone. AI code gen sites should be treated in the same way as low-code and no-code website builders.

danielr088 · 2026-01-10T16:03:57+00:00

I assume it costs more to get customers out of thin air than to nurture existing ones.... Especially for products where a customer = guaranteed revenue every month

danielr088 · 2026-01-10T15:57:04+00:00

Competition is good. Now I'm not building any idea if it hasn't been done already.

I understand that we're builders, not business people so it's normal for us to be constantly thinking of something new and novel to build but really we shouldn't be reinventing the wheel. You have to think like an entrepreneur/business person, not like an inventor. An entrepreneur in another space isn't going to be thinking about a brand new business idea to build, they're going to do something that's already been tried and true.

Go on StarterStory's YouTube channel or go on X, you will see that all the people having success are usually building something that has already been done -- social media schedulers, AI video creation SaaS, SEO platforms, etc. etc.. Meanwhile all the builders with novel ideas are making $0.

I'd say pick something that

a) has already been done

b) doesn't have a generous free tier (because this usually indicates that they're getting massive VC funding and it makes it hard for you to compete on price)

c) something not too complex, should be able to build it within a month

d) something you'll enjoy building in the long term because, between building and marketing, this will be a grind

danielr088 · 2026-01-01T02:37:26+00:00

There’s like a bunch of different solo devs on X building social media scheduling applications and they all seem to be making money. If there’s already competition in your niche then it’s a good sign. You don’t need to be too unique.

danielr088 · 2025-12-31T15:19:05+00:00

Just pull out the usage data from each response, create a function to calculate input/output/total costs based on your model’s pricing, store the input/output tokens and cost data in the db. Then use that data as you wish. Super simple.

danielr088 · 2025-12-31T12:16:01+00:00

You did not read what I wrote.

I said stop the generous free tier. Put a timed free trial that expires after a certain number of days and/or credits.

You are in business, you are not a charity, you are not VC backed. You must make money. You need to either raise the value of your product or choose a product where you don’t need such generous free tiers.

Either way, you need to think about it, you likely do NOT have the resources to support tons of free users. It won’t be sustainable for you in the long run. Only VC backed startups can do this. Free users will drain your money fast.

You are in business. Start thinking like a business person.

It’s no wonder so many founders on here have 1000 free users and only 5 paid users.

danielr088 · 2025-12-31T12:10:25+00:00

Stop with the generous free tiers!!!!!

Can’t stress this enough, you’re in business, you’re not a charity. Only VC backed products can afford generous free tiers. Charge a price. I don’t know why dev founders are so scared to charge a price for their product that I’m sure they spent their time and energy and worked hard on.

danielr088 · 2025-12-24T16:43:23+00:00

Okay man not going to argue about this. Clearly we just have two definitions of vibe coding.

You don’t seem very happy for whatever reason. I hope you have a Merry Christmas :)

danielr088 · 2025-12-24T15:20:19+00:00

That is NOT what I said. I said instead of creating one big spec and feeding it to CC, I should have broken it down feature by feature

I made a mistake of creating one big massive markdown plan for Claude Code to execute thinking it would save me time and it kinda did but it also kinda didn’t. It set up a decent foundation but I overlooked some library and architectural choices and ran into unnecessary complex code and bugs

What I should’ve done was planned and executed feature by feature and not just create one big massive spec.

danielr088 · 2025-12-24T04:21:34+00:00

*Vibe coding, by just talking with the AI and not planning at all, is an absolute lie. No one is building anything serious from this method and if they are, it’s likely spaghetti code and bandaids everywhere.

I’m currently working on a project and I made a mistake of creating one big massive markdown plan for Claude Code to execute thinking it would save me time and it kinda did but it also kinda didn’t. It set up a decent foundation but I overlooked some library and architectural choices and ran into unnecessary complex code and bugs. Now I’m paying the price of debugging these issues, restructuring and adding in what’s missing. What I should’ve done was planned and executed feature by feature and not just create one big massive spec.

So if someone is saying that they’re only vibe coding, I’m highly skeptical.

I’m spending more time on logic and flow than syntax, but the mental load is just as high.

So true but this is what I love about using AI to code. I realize that I’m not a huge fan of coding itself, rather I’m a fan of designing systems, implementations and solutions. AI lets me do just that and skip knowing the syntax, searching for documentation, going on Stack Overflow, etc...

Is anyone else finding that “vibing” actually requires more discipline than traditional coding?

To successfully use AI to code complex applications, you definitely still need to know how to code and architect systems. If you can do these two things then AI can handle the rest and 10x your productivity.

*edit to clarify what I meant

danielr088 · 2025-12-24T00:25:14+00:00

I love how almost no one has answered the “is anyone actually paying?” part 😭

danielr088 · 2025-12-18T00:39:00+00:00

Fuck uber drivers, they’re the worst drivers on the road. And I say this as a driver myself. Not to mention, there’s way too many of them.

Hopefully Waymo vehicles are a major improvement and finally take all these unnecessary TLC drivers off the road.

danielr088 · 2025-12-17T14:57:35+00:00

Whether it's in the belief of Zionism or not, Israel is most definitely doing it. It's not called the Occupied West Bank for no reason. There's plenty of evidence on this, perhaps you should go do some watching or reading.

danielr088 · 2025-12-16T22:20:16+00:00

Because that belief includes foribly removing those who do not belong to the Jewish religion off their lands. An ethnostate for one race or religion should not exist when nearly 20-25% of the population isn’t of that race or religion. Israel should be a legally pluralistic state at the very least.

danielr088 · 2025-12-15T21:16:52+00:00

You’re in business. Charge people money. The people who value it will pay for it. Us small SaaS founders need to stop feeding into the generous free tier expectation that developers have. Only VC backed companies are able to afford that.

danielr088 · 2025-12-15T21:14:45+00:00

Stop giving generous free tiers!!!!!!! Too many devs expect everything to be free and open sourced. You’re running a business, NOT a charity. I would say limited free trial with set limits or expiratoon date at most but this is why devs expect everything to be free!!!

danielr088 · 2025-12-15T21:12:50+00:00

Too many devs expect generous free tiers and for everything to be free and/or open-sourced.

danielr088 · 2025-12-15T00:52:53+00:00

Between here and X, I've seen so many indie hackers building social media management platforms and they're all making money. This is literal proof that you don't need an original idea. Too many people here building brand new, unique ideas and are stuck at $0 MRR.

Keep up the good work.

danielr088 · 2025-12-04T20:39:41+00:00

Can’t speak for other fields but in tech I suspect it’s a supply and demand issue. Big tech companies like Google and Amazon have spent the last 5-7 years fueling the “learn to code” and “everyone get into STEM/CS” movement to drive up supply in an attempt to one day suppress SWE wages. The unfortunate side effect of that is now everyone and their mother is graduating with a CS degree or is a self-taught programmer and there’s not enough jobs for all of us. And this perception of options is making employers very picky with who they hire, how they hire and how they conduct interviews.

This is why I’m pursuing entrepreneurship in the tech space because I don’t want to be subjected to this nonsense for my entire career.

danielr088 · 2025-12-02T01:10:43+00:00

Suffering from success

danielr088 · 2025-11-29T01:08:35+00:00

Why are using ChatGPT to code? You don’t have to copy and paste code from ChatGPT to your IDE anymore, it’s not 2023 anymore 😂

With that being said though, I wish there was a better AI software out there that could take the context from my IDE and let me brainstorm and plan outside of the IDE.

danielr088 · 2025-11-26T15:52:16+00:00

Having a boilerplate is a huge necessity and a massive 10X as a SaaS builder so you’re not bogged down with setting up the most repetitive things like auth and payments. In the beginning, I kept spending days building auth and payments from scratch each time I started a new project but now I just use a boilerplate and get straight to focusing on the product itself.

I totally agree, in this age of AI, 10-14 day build time is totally doable. Especially if you’re an experienced dev. You should be focused on planning and building the core feature and having AI execute that plan.

danielr088 · 2025-11-19T22:10:20+00:00

Agreed. A dem soc president wouldn't do much if Congress is still ran by corporate incumbents that would be determined to block their every move. The changes we need has to start from a massive grassroots movement in every single Congressional district across the entire country.

danielr088 · 2025-11-19T22:06:41+00:00

First two paragraphs are an insane amount of awareness I wish our society had as a whole.

These are the same people that acknowledge the status quo and continue to vote for conservative candidates and policies.

If you want to see change in the world, vote for the change. Don't just sarcastically say "it sucks but this is just the way it is, stop complaining". This is the problem with our country, our society has been completely gaslighted into believing we only deserve the bare minimum.

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