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Build in public Lama Bot 👇. Erlang and Elixir developer for a dozen years. Enterpreneur and blogger (at least a bit). Father of 2 sons. Buddhist 🏃🏄‍♂️⛷️🧗

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1mo ago

How much time do you actually lose to infra setup before writing a single line of product code?

Every developer I talk to has the same story. The idea is clear, the stack is decided, but before anything real gets built there's 3 hours of AWS configs, Dockerfiles, environment variables, and CI pipelines that have nothing to do with the actual product.

AI coding tools made writing code faster. Nobody has solved what comes after.

2mo ago

Is self-hosting trap for most makers?

I see so many makers spending weekends setting up n8n, OpenClaw, or Postgres on a VPS. They think they're saving money.

But your time isn't free. SSL certs expire. Updates break things. Backups fail. One 3 am debugging session and you've lost any "savings."

Unless you have compliance reasons, just pay for managed hosting. Am I wrong? Tell me why self-hosting is actually worth it for you.

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7mo ago

🔥 Drop your tagline and I'll try to guess what your product is

A tagline is the first piece of content a user will see about your product on the leaderboard. It's so important that you get it right. You should be able to get a really solid idea of what your product is just by reading a handful of words.

In the spirit of forever optimising our taglines, I wanted to do a little experiment:

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