Monika

Monika

Founder of MoniCode | Build in Public

About

Hey! I'm Monika, a software engineer from Poland. Currently building Trackly (usetrackly.eu) in public — a SaaS designed to kill messy compliance spreadsheets using unique QR codes, Google Calendar automated workflows, and PDF deadline reporting. Happy to connect with fellow builders and dev-tool enthusiasts! P.S. Feel free to visit my beta and break whatever is breakable :)

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Forums

2mo ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

2mo ago

Do Vibe coders actually test things?

If the agent writes the code who s actually testing it?

Do you still go through edge cases and user scenarios manually, or are you also delegating please break my app to another agent now?

3mo ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

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