Stoyan Minchev

I tried to learn German two years ago. I was learning every day for around 800 days. I did not miss a day! I barely understand anything in German now. :) Learning new language, human or programming, to the level I know , for example JAVA, at my age of 40 is just no-go for me. I can try and do my best, just my brain does not work the same way as 20 years ago. It is just like in sport. Sport...

AI is just the tool for developing. Good professionals make good products with good tools. Bad professionals make bad products with good tools ;) Do you call it woodworking, when it is done with the help of a machine, or only hand made is considered as woodworking ;)

I really recommend this book, or similar to it to everyone who are trying to produce a software: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Requirements-Process-Getting-Right/dp/0321815742 There is always the theory and the practice. The theory first You need your persona, information about this person. How uses a device, what device mostly use, how often, is it a professional, or not. etc. WHO IS YOUR...

I tried it. A few weeks ago, I asked Claude Code to make nice images for google play store app listing. They were... good, but not enough. The whole conversation was not really the smoothest one. But because I can't do it better, I agreed with the produced results When I header about Claude Design, the first thing that pop in my head was the images. I did a second attempt and I got much, much...

I don't write code anymore. I write documentations that AI use to write code. The whole way of thinking, is not like of a developer anymore. It is like a project manager that has done coding before. Now we need more communication and language skill. To express ourselves better and precise so that even AI can understand it. ;) They don't teach us that skills in the technical universities ;)

AI makes life easier. I have a story my master degree, 18 years ago. When you have an exam, what you need to do is to read a few books, notes, remember as much as possible, and reproduce everything in an hour. Remembering is an important part of our brain. When you go to job interview, when you need to think for something, this internal storage can help you make fast decisions. In one summer I...

The tricky part now is to get some visibility. Making your product visible get even more difficult, because the produced applications are too much. Everybody has ideas (including me), and AI makes the ideas easier to be produced. To be honest, sometimes I feel bored. I open a listing, forum, and all I see is the same. People produce something that is AI-relared/AI-based. I read about, I don't...

That's why they write in the big books, you need to make your analysis, you need a problem. Without analysis, personas/target groups, and a specific annoying problem it is pure gamble if the product will succeed. Good analysis will stop you before you do anything big. Unfortunately, when they teach us to become a software development, they don't teach as entrepreneurship, and a little bit of...

The official holidays are part of the laws for each country. The employer is forced to follow the rules. If an international company has offices in another country, it must follow the rules, otherwise the government of the country will not be happy and additional sanctions might be applied. I go in public holidays in my days country official holiday calendar, and you go in public holidays in...

I have already seen it. Three devs, only one doing the job via AI agentic tools. What will the other two do? Some of them will start their own products. Some of them will succeed, others will fail. Making a product is not only to implement it. You must test it, advertise it, sell it. AI can help and do suggestion, but can hardly replace all roles. I tried do my marketing campaign myself via AI...

Yes. I did it. I asked the AI, this is my project, and my documentation, this is the marketing strategies and documents generated by you. What do you think about the application and its success rates. What can we do to make it better. It answered that it is a solid application, that solves serious problems, and has good chances for success, because it has unique approach. But also it criticized...

I had made a app for tracking car expenses 10-15 years ago. And now we use at home app for tracking babies. When they slept, how much they eat, what was the output ;) . What we usually forget is to write things down. You are in a hurry, somebody is waiting, something is more important, and a few hours later, you try to remember what was the thing that you wanted to add to the tracker. And at...

The diagrams were always a problem for me to draw. In the past, good diagram drawing tools were paid and expensive. And the free versions of them were so painful to use. Can I use the tool to create a whole presentations with some visual animations? Like, moving the text, images fading out, etc?

I guess it also means in which stage of your career journey you are. If the builder is a well know person/company in its community, if being recommended, and has the trust of so many people, starting for free might be too cheap. ;) On the other hand, me, being in a position to make a product publicly known for a first time, nobody will give me money just like that ;)

The worst thing I did was to ask AI what to do. I am a developer and the marketing is like a black-box with magic inside. I am working on an elderly monitoring app, and the AI suggested to go in multiple caregivers groups in facebook, reddit, everywhere and start posting messages about the product. Even though my aim is not really the promotion, but to try to really help people, all the AI did...

It really depends on what you are doing mainly, I guess. Each model has some good and not so good characteristics. And sometimes it matters which one you are used to. I imagine, if I use openclaw to write some code, Opus is my choice. And If I want to do something more creative, or do a web search, then I read that Gemini does better results

I am really interested on the topic. I am working on something in that area myself. Soon I plan to publish it in Product Hunt. The border between being a spy and helping loved one is really thin. At one side, such application must be as less intrusive as possible, because elderly people might feel uncomfortable, being "spied". On the other side, the app usage must be visible and transparent, so...