David Tereba

David Tereba

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Indie Dev. Builder. Coffee lover.

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Indie dev & coffee shop owner β˜•οΈ - Planelo (idea-first PM) - DevCleaner (DevCleaner finds all dev junk, tells you what’s safe to delete, and frees the space in one click) - Synapse (macOS file manager) - DailyPitch (for indie devs). Coffee-powered barista turned maker β˜•

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AI Hive p/ai-hiveβ€’

15d ago

Why so many AI projects die in pilot to production, real lessons, not blog post lessons

The 80% failure rate Gartner cites isn't because AI is bad. It's because production is hard in ways pilots don't reveal.

The real reasons I've seen projects die:

DevCleaner 1.6.2 hibernate Docker Compose projects (volumes + images) and one-click polyglot restore

I've been iterating on DevCleaner - a Mac menu bar app that scans dev junk (Xcode DerivedData, simulators, node_modules graveyards, Docker/OrbStack/Colima bloat, Homebrew caches, AI tool caches, etc.) and lets you clean safely with risk labels.

The last couple releases ( 1.6.1 + 1.6.2 ) are mostly about project hibernation - archiving dead side projects off your SSD instead of keeping 30 GB on disk because "setting it back up later is annoying."

The problem I was solving

DevCleaner 1.6.0: Project Hibernation for Mac developers

Just shipped the biggest @DevCleaner update yet.

Project Hibernation lets you archive projects you are not actively working on, off your disk into a single file, and restore them in one click whenever you need them. It handles dependency reinstall on restore, is iCloud aware, and verifies every archive before touching the original.

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