Adrin D'souza

This hit hard. We did the exact same thing six months ago and it felt terrifying at first. Swapped session time and DAU for “did this actually move the needle on their emotional state?” and “did they use it in a real conversation this week?” Killed two of our prettiest features that people played with forever but got zero real value from. Session length tanked, but the messages we started...

Bro this is the exact journey I see so many people go through 😂 Submodules + Turborepo is a special kind of hell when Cursor has to index everything. Switched to subtrees last year too and never looked back, one command to push SDK changes is pure chef’s kiss. My current setup that feels magical with Cursor: Turborepo + pnpm workspaces (no external packages nonsense) + one single monorepo for...

Love this thread Nika! Swati and Janefrances really nailed it, free should deliver that quick wow moment and actually create the hunger for the paid version. As a self-funded builder, I keep it simple: free gives instant real value with basically zero cost to me, while scale, depth, and anything expensive goes behind the paywall. The real test is whether users walk away satisfied… or still...