Erkin Khidirov

After 3 months of solo building on evenings/weekends, I noticed my 7 9pm block is where ~80% of shipped code lives. Everything else mornings, lunch breaks, weekend afternoons turns into planning, browsing, or half-baked drafts that get thrown out.

Two things I had to change to protect that window: killing all notifications until 9pm, and doing planning the night before so I don't waste the shipping hours on "what should I build today."

Both major labs switched on text watermarking within 48 hours at the turn of August. My first thought was that this is very hard to do in a way that actually holds text has no pixel layer to hide anything in. So I read Anthropic's own documentation on how it works.

It does work. It also breaks in a lot of ordinary situations, and they say so themselves: short text leaves too little signal, heavy editing or translation thins it out, screenshots and format conversion strip it entirely.

During our first launch today and I have been shocked by the volume / the literal flood of paid promotion solicitation. I've been kindly telling them "we don't have a budget for that but we would obviously love your organic support" but holy moly that is a lot of folks telling me they can leverage their community to "beat the system" and get organic votes.
Obviously we all want to win POTD / week / month etc - but that kinda takes the fun out of the whole competitive nature of this PH Launch journey / what makes this community unique etc.
I'd imagine the team does a really solid job behind the scenes flagging those upvotes and comments - but I do wonder if some of the real comments and real upvotes get lost in that shuffle due to this massive influx of pay for click day of promotion.
Don't have an answer as we're in the throws of pushing the product but I wanted to know if other people shared this experience and from the @product team - I'd love to learn more about the vetting mechanisms you've got to limit this stuff (because I am sure its pretty robust haah!)
Anyhoo - back to the launch pushing but - just thought it would be neat to share some real time thoughts and express my gratitude for those folks supporting our launch and the other products launching today!