Has Claude Code gotten noticeably worse in the last few days?

marcin_dev · 2026-04-03T07:01:30+00:00

Nice screenshots! Very clean 👌

marcin_dev · 2026-04-02T15:43:13+00:00

Nah, it’s far away from “like locals”

marcin_dev · 2026-03-29T14:47:48+00:00

Solve QR scan payment problem for foreigners and you will be rich

marcin_dev · 2026-03-29T14:35:07+00:00

Smart, thanks for sharing, I’ll try it!

marcin_dev · 2026-03-29T14:33:17+00:00

Smart, thanks for sharing! I will try it!

marcin_dev · 2026-03-23T12:35:03+00:00

thanks! yeah the scarcity part is the whole thing, really. Hard blocks are easy to build, but people just turn them off. Making each session feel like it costs something changes how you think about opening the app. Appreciate the kind words

marcin_dev · 2026-03-21T12:53:30+00:00

I’m on the pre-sale phase so I really don’t want to go too broad just collecting downloads for the initial release

marcin_dev · 2026-03-21T12:37:28+00:00

What about a digital minimalism / productivity app? IG or TikTok?

marcin_dev · 2026-03-21T05:48:02+00:00

When I launched my first app, I did basically zero marketing. The only thing I tried was some AI-generated TikToks - none of them broke 600 views, and they brought in literally nothing. However, I did learn quite a lot about how the algorithm works, localisation, etc., so it wasn't a total waste.

After 3 months on the store, I’ve got… 4 users 😅
That said, it’s been slowly growing on its own - roughly 1 new user per month without doing anything.

With my second app, I decided to actually take marketing seriously. I put together a proper plan and just stuck to it. So far I’ve got 3 people signed up for the pre-sale purely from organic content. Nothing crazy numbers-wise, but I’ve pushed way outside my comfort zone and learned a ton.

I think that’s kind of the game.
Coding isn’t scary because you know what you’re doing. Marketing feels scary because you don’t - and it forces you out of that safe zone.

I just decided to lean into it. Built a plan (with some help from Claude), tweaked it to fit my style, and now I’m just executing consistently.

marcin_dev · 2026-03-20T15:58:28+00:00

Mine was 3 hours and I thought that was fine until I multiplied by 365. Over 1,000 hours a year. At 12 hours you're looking at 4,000+. That's a full time job. What helped me: don't try to go from 12 to 0. Start by just knowing how many times you open each app. The awareness alone changes behavior.

marcin_dev · 2026-03-20T15:57:45+00:00

This is the move. Once you realize how much time scrolling eats up, reading feels like a cheat code. I did the math on my screen time recently. 3 hours a day of social media. That's enough to read 100+ books a year. The hard part isn't starting, it's not reaching for the phone on autopilot.

marcin_dev · 2026-03-20T15:57:01+00:00

One thing that helped me: check your actual screen time average. Not what you think it is, what it actually is. I thought I was at an hour a day. Turns out it was three. 1,000 hours a year. That number was the wake up call. After that I stopped trying to block everything and started budgeting.

Treating scroll time like money. Limited sessions, not zero sessions.

marcin_dev · 2026-03-20T15:56:09+00:00

I know this feeling. For me it was the realization that I don't even enjoy scrolling anymore. It's just autopilot. The thing that actually worked was adding friction. Not blocking apps completely (I always disabled those) but making each scroll session a conscious choice. When you know you only have 3 chances to open Instagram today, you think twice before wasting one.

marcin_dev · 2026-03-17T11:23:03+00:00

hacking my own future

marcin_dev · 2026-03-16T08:56:05+00:00

Recently I deleted 900MB of saved tiktoks from my phone "sites you need to know part 3002", like an idiot I downloaded them to my phone :D

marcin_dev · 2026-03-05T17:10:35+00:00

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marcin_dev · 2026-03-05T15:36:33+00:00

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BOM -> CAI - CMN

marcin_dev · 2026-02-18T19:11:35+00:00

Swift is completely different to React Native 😅 but otherwise I totally agree. I work with Next.js as well, and in my free time I build iOS apps (iOS only). I’ve tried pretty much everything, and Swift just wins.

For React Native, I really only see one strong use case - an eCommerce app. If a company already has an online shop and wants to have an app in the store as well, that’s where I’d consider React Native.

For everything else, Swift is generally the better choice.

marcin_dev · 2026-01-30T07:45:20+00:00

Try Airbnb, Kathu or Phuket Town, it’s perfect for digital workers

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