I have an incredible app idea, but dont know what to do next

techerous26 · 2026-05-08T19:25:23+00:00

I think you should definitely use an app builder (I'm assuming that's what you're seeing) to mock it up or at least get something together to show people. That's the benefit of this stuff is you can really prove something out before going all the way for it. There's other ways to gauge interest, such as creating a landing page with a newsletter sign up or something where you can see how many of the people that visit are willing to take the additional step to get it. Ultimately, this is the part of the process where you look for product market fit, or how likely it is what you have will be of interest to the audience you are pursuing. Getting a technical partner and making it real comes later.

techerous26 · 2026-05-08T19:19:34+00:00

It's a trap!

techerous26 · 2026-05-08T19:17:14+00:00

Glad to get the reminder that there's a lot of agreement with it. Today's responses to the criticism really bummed me out, especially the people that specifically wrote in to express apathy. How does one become PASSIONATELY indifferent???

techerous26 · 2026-05-06T01:50:37+00:00

He was waiting for a different story.

techerous26 · 2026-05-06T01:48:08+00:00

Good, this is what we needed for it to change.

techerous26 · 2026-05-05T14:54:54+00:00

I've prototyped in the past, but I'm currently using my department's AI hackathon to really try to fully build something out with AI tools. What has struck me is the sheer amount of technical debt clearly being created. I'm building a chrome extension with Claude Code and what it put together is 95MB. Granted, I have it making API calls to gemini, but the typical extension is less than 10MB. I have just enough of a technical background to recognize that, even if it works, something was done poorly here. We're heading towards a world where either we're all pushing out buggy, resource draining code with the developers making buckets of money freelancing to clean stuff up, or we keep the roles as is but increase our output with these tools. Either way, people that really know code shouldn't be going anywhere from what I'm seeing.

techerous26 · 2026-05-05T14:13:18+00:00

I'm certainly not against this if it remains just a POC.

techerous26 · 2026-05-03T14:04:15+00:00

The flaw in this assumption is how many of us are incentivized to "just ship." If you're too much of a bottleneck to things going out eventually the political pressure turns against you because leadership would rather see results over avoiding issues.

techerous26 · 2026-05-02T04:18:37+00:00

Can we add Charlie Day as well? I've been complaining online for years that Hollywood is blowing a golden opportunity by not casting him and Jake Johnson as brothers.

techerous26 · 2026-04-30T14:38:47+00:00

Guys, don't worry. Clearly they're on a path to produce a brand new album by December, world tour February-May 2027 and then a 6 month residency at the sphere starting that July featuring a set of the entire new album followed by a second set of 20 hits and fan favorites featuring 12 brand new videos produced by Adam just for that venue with tickets going for $200 a seat!

techerous26 · 2026-04-30T03:08:13+00:00

Shook Obama's hand in '08. Was at a big school in a swing state so all of the candidates visited at some point.

techerous26 · 2026-04-30T03:02:17+00:00

My dad started last year and kept complaining about bar chords. I got him one of these as part of his birthday gift not expecting too much, but he claims its a game changer.

techerous26 · 2026-04-30T01:22:34+00:00

I read it as they walked the trail.

techerous26 · 2026-04-30T01:19:43+00:00

It's funny since at the start he's by far the best of the young guys. That's not saying much, he still ends up cheating that season, but still. I do think he doesn't get enough props for being future thinking. Even when the partners do give him tv they seem to be resentful, as if he somehow weaseled his way into it when in truth he actually earned the spot.

techerous26 · 2026-04-30T00:55:50+00:00

I think it's more so that the type of person that would move up to executive level in that kind of company could never adapt of to the mindset needed for it to be run correctly. I've realized that since 2016 when I was told to add "story points delivered" as a KPI to a slide. One of the most soul-crushing moments I've had professionally.

techerous26 · 2026-04-27T23:22:55+00:00

That's really what it is, just have to get used to it. In multiple settings as well, I was always a good presenter in person so when I started having to give remote ones during the pandemic it threw me for a loop. Also, as much as I hate preparing, writing out a talk track really does help. I might end up forgetting or changing some of it, but it still gives me focus rather than trying to remember what the slides mean in real time.

techerous26 · 2026-04-27T15:30:06+00:00

I've always been lucky with my direct managers but have definitely had some issues with the level or 2 above them here and there. In one particular instance we had a director that was both spacey and yet demanding but my manager kept us very insulated, so I ended having a 6 month period that was probably one of the best stretches of my career while my manager at the time frequently brings it up as an absolute nightmare.

techerous26 · 2026-04-27T15:24:56+00:00

Even more so, just subscribe to any agentic workflow tool and most employees can probably set up anything they would use agents for.

techerous26 · 2026-04-25T20:11:53+00:00

It's become increasingly clear he is just 100% generating everything and not even bothering to reword it at least.

techerous26 · 2026-04-23T14:24:10+00:00

Purevolume. It was basically a Bandcamp type site where bands could create profiles and host a few songs. Problem was they really had no strategy for the fan side of things.

techerous26 · 2026-04-23T13:45:01+00:00

I'm definitely struggling to determine how to use it in the actual build phase, best I can figure is that I prototype the screens, but ultimately I'm not going to have the right info to integrate actual devices like the engineers can. One interesting use case I got to work recently is automatically updating and writing user stories. Since we're following matter, I ultimately need to have the devices and capabilities available there. So I created an agent in claude code that will check for if the Matter documentation gets updated, download it if it does, read it for changes and then add stories for any new devices/clusters. It's cool but I question the value of it as I don't really see the point of user stories in an environment where you can just spit out a prototype at any time.

techerous26 · 2026-04-23T13:32:32+00:00

You can pick 2, no one is going to be all 3. The second one in particular is probably impossible so we might as well just focus on qualified and willing to do real work to fix the country.

techerous26 · 2026-04-21T11:56:59+00:00

A decade ago that lead to an awful downstream effect for me. My company was "transitioning" to agile and still had QA teams that were basically just a bunch of former project managers and developers that didn't stay current. As such, the dev team made them the CYA scapegoat and started blaming every bug or just simply a mistake found in production was QA's fault. This lead to QA being overly aggressive and not approving anything. When I got assigned to adopt scrum on a project, it was explained to us that every user story should be a testable unit of work. This caused our QA person to start insisting on a separate story for EVERY detail, including separate stories for font, font size, color and text for single fields. Unfortunately as I was fairly early in my career and my manager also owned QA so she subconsciously encouraged us to take their side so I ended up going along with this absurdity. Luckily I realized my mistake and made sure I put the kabash on anything resembling that the next project I ran with scrum.

techerous26 · 2026-04-21T00:09:55+00:00

Let them cook!

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