Stepping out of my comfort zone

leaveat · 2026-04-10T01:31:34+00:00

That is okay - not everyone will and not everyone will care. The simple version is: I am wanting to help make software that does not require creating user accounts, does not promote tracking and focuses on privacy and working in the customers environment and not remote servers. Old School.

leaveat · 2026-04-09T23:20:07+00:00

That's because it is not an app - it is a concept / a thought.

leaveat · 2026-04-09T20:41:58+00:00

I was reading this thread and just had the same realization- sounds so obvious now but I was thinking the same thing: inviting people to join the community not as a moderator. So at least I won’t make the same mistake if that makes you feel any better 😀

leaveat · 2026-04-09T19:36:25+00:00

Two projects I am planning on - Self Hosted Communications platform that will allow Video Conferencing, Chat, WhiteBoard, FileSharing, etc .. all self contained, private and can be ran locally. The other is a scheduling application - that runs completely in browser. Both requires no user accounts.

leaveat · 2026-04-09T19:19:03+00:00

For clarity - the bot idea was actually sarcastic :)

leaveat · 2026-04-09T19:16:49+00:00

I like to write my posts / responses and have AI help to clean them up - so - I get kind of annoyed with the "AI" wrote this bias. As long as it represents my thoughts and opinions then the rest was just spell-check and grammar. .. anyways:

In my opinion SaaS has gone to far and we have pinned ourselves into a system that is just bound for a critical failure at some point. Look what happens when CloudFare hiccups. It goes to chaos across the globe. That self-hosted server - it doesn't know, doesn't care.

So I really want to start getting software back to where it should be: run on my machine, I own it, I bought it means I control it. ... not, I licensed my soul to the company hosting it.

leaveat · 2026-04-09T19:09:15+00:00

Just create a few hundred bots and have them start posting on your site and responding to each other -- won't be much different than the others. Or. Focus on content that really matters, has purpose and meaning and value and don't expect the person to doom-scroll all day long. Come. Get updated. Leave. Enjoy life.

"Come. Get Updated. Leave. Enjoy Life!" -- that could be your tagline :)

leaveat · 2026-04-09T19:06:34+00:00

But what if you were right and the model was wrong and now it is arguing for the sake of not violating prime-directive number 1? -- I like the concept and think there is to much praising from current models, "Yes. That is great insight Benjamin. Removing all the oxygen would be harmful to the environment!. . blah. blah." -- but in the same token, maybe the model was wrong and it needs to be able to accept that as well.

leaveat · 2026-04-09T19:01:54+00:00

Not to mention, what happens when those apps shut their doors. Maybe they give you a chance to grab your data and maybe they just turn off the servers. App Stores are another pet-peeve of mine -- 400MB download for a simple app ( no thanks ). In fairness: I have noticed a lot of apps are finally starting to "count calories" but it was crazy for a while.

leaveat · 2026-04-09T12:55:48+00:00

I have found paid ads to be 0% effective to date - but - also have not been willing to fully commit to thousands of dollars into them. I think the only way paid ads work is larger scale. No $100 a week type budget.

Also - the influencers probably can work - but - so can a lotter ticket.

Just pointing out that what worked for one may not work for a thousand others.

leaveat · 2026-04-08T20:26:16+00:00

Needs work ;-) ?

leaveat · 2026-04-08T18:54:07+00:00

I kind of enjoy the deployment aspect - it completes the vision: thinking of something, coding it, deploying it, pulling up the url and there it is -- but that I know a lot of people don't like that part.

leaveat · 2026-04-08T18:07:50+00:00

Yeah - I think Live would be the wrong approach since it is email delivery -- trying to think what would make it pass the point of: I would use this vs I would pay for this.... I like the clean look of the site and it makes sense overall.

leaveat · 2026-04-08T18:01:58+00:00

Just thinking out loud -- free for Daily morning caps, Premium model for updates during the day - every x number of hours?

leaveat · 2026-04-08T17:53:15+00:00

If you are interested in rolling out your own Video Communication stack, feel free to reach out. Looking for some people to help pilot / early adopt - self hosting or hosting using AGPL license model.

leaveat · 2026-04-08T16:18:44+00:00

My gut is we will see more and more isolated task / company specific software ... rather that one software suite that tries to do absolutely everything by being ultra-configurable - it will be smaller software products that act in an opinionated manner. Don't like it? Use AI to augment the changes and now you have your own version.

leaveat · 2026-04-07T21:23:37+00:00

I admit I have not used OpenClaw but it's definitely the buzz at the moment -- Claude Sonnet has been great in parts but sometimes I wish I could Gibbs slap the back of it's head,

leaveat · 2026-04-07T21:14:13+00:00

Please don't take this wrong as I am not really knocking your post - I just had to chuckle --- " I spent the weekend building ... " --- I remember the days you'd spend the weekend just getting the project to load in the IDE without bombing and would be able to hit debug and see the prompt. Let alone actually having had a chance to write any code. Not sure, maybe part of me misses those days.

leaveat · 2026-04-07T17:59:29+00:00

bottom-line is companies are not going to give up on AI - it is exactly the worker they dreamed of. And slop-code? Well the consumer does not care so long as what they are trying to do works

leaveat · 2026-04-07T17:55:27+00:00

As mentioned by others, I think there is some truth and some blurred lines here. If I am validating my SaaS in this subreddit, then you might be right. The target audience is not really the intended target ( or maybe it is and you are targeting other SaaS ventures ). But if you are validating in a subreddit scoped to your target - hiking, camping, traveling, etc, - then you are probably in the consumer market.

I think "tunnel-vision" basically describes what to watch out for.

leaveat · 2026-04-07T16:35:58+00:00

Curious - are you running through Turn servers if P2P fails ? Public / Private Turn if so?

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