... everyone, I m Bruce, the maker of RecipeCat. I m building a tool to help people work through the steps between a recipe and a packaged food-product plan. I d like feedback on a specific product-design question: how should an app present an early cost estimate when some inputs are still assumptions? In our recorded example, a proposed 227 g sauce bottle has an estimated unit cost of $5.42. That provides a starting point for exploring pricing ...

... fellow hunters and makers! I m Bruce, building Looove Health. I am building a proactive personal agent for longevity/wellness . Would love to connect and chat more on this. We re exploring how an agent could learn your everyday patterns, notice changes in stress and energy , and offer timely support. A big design challenge: making those check-ins feel thoughtful without becoming another notification to ignore. I m here to swap ideas with fellow builders, try what you re making ...

... Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @bhanu__partap  Everybody needs that friend :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @anna_ludwinowski  The less you know, the better you sleep :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @bruce_warren  That's a fact. When I have next FOMO, I will try recall this sentence :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @varun1jan  Maybe I should step back too for a few days :) Comment from Mia Schmidt(@mia_schmidt ... ... flow of working. I figure most coworkers would have grace for people coming back from a longer break. Comment from Richard Smith(@richard_smith_sv): This is so true. I always overestimate how much I've actually missed vs

... score in the comments (be brutal, I do growth, not CEO stuff). And if it made you smile, an upvote today would mean a lot to a very small team in LA and Vietnam. Comment from Bruce Warren(@bruce

... costs and efforts significantly if you take a very planned approach from the start. That's been my experience. Comment from Joe Thomas(@jthomas2174): @alexcloudstar   we have sort of templated it, the major win is dev/solutioning time vs deployment, but with the new approach we still accomplish significant improvement in time to market. The simplest way to describe our approach is the following vibe code --> Online Git --> Parallel Git (for lift and shift) -- > Code + App logic ... ... need any special configuration Comment from Stan Kolotinskiy(@sk_uxpin): @alexcloudstar  yeah, well, I guess I was referring to an earlier stage of the product than you did :) The devops team does own the whole pipeline Comment from Bruce

... note before we start: What follows is fiction. A thought experiment set in an alternate world that only looks like ours by accident. Any resemblance to real labs, real bosses, or real workplace policies is the reader s imagination doing the heavy lifting. With that out of the way. We ve seen this movie before In this imagined world, strip the hype off AI (artificial intelligence, software that learns from huge amounts of data to answer questions, write text ... ... before the tools that used to do those things for them get too expensive to live without. Again, fiction. Any similarity to the world outside your window is between you and your window. Comment from Bogomil Shopov - (@bogomep): @bruce

... Thanks for the deep insight! Comment from Leo Anang Miftahul Huda(@leoanangmh): @guirodalves  That makes total sense, Guilherme! If a tool abstracts the pain away and lets you ship, it's doing its job. The tradeoff of freedom vs. convenience is exactly what we are trying to balance with Helipod. We want to give a bit more of that infrastructure 'freedom' back to developers without forcing them to become DevOps experts. Thanks for sharing your workflow! Comment from Konstantin ... ... whether pages render. The dream is: build fast, but also know what is real, what is fake, and what is about to break. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9736953): Comment Deleted Comment from Leo Anang Miftahul Huda(@leoanangmh): @bruce

... trying to close. Not more data. Less noise. A signal that points to action. What is the most conflicting signal you have seen recently? Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9736953): Comment Deleted Comment from Bruce Warren(@bruce

... about the quality of feedback. Maybe the harder part is creating an environment where people feel okay being honest even if they like or respect the builder. Comment from Kabir Salunkhe(@kabirsalunkhe): Feels like it s not brand vs product but what you re actually building trust in. If people follow you for opinions, they ll show up early but they ll also leave fast if the product doesn t hold up. If they discover you through the product, trust ... ... wonder if waiting for the product to earn trust can sometimes delay learning. Sharing earlier, even in small ways, can shape how people perceive and use what you re building. Maybe it s less about waiting vs

... ensures the metadata is as close to what a human would've generated as possible! Here's an example where Studio automatically filled in the amazon links, product name and brand starting from just the photo. Comment from Bruce Warren(@bruce

... properly than discover it on launch week Also seeing a lot of reports about 4.6 quality degrading in the weeks before this release too, which makes me want to let 4.7 settle before touching anything in production Comment from Bruce Warren(@bruce

... wait for people to try this - see the attached video and let me know what you think: See full video post Download Votap from the App Store if you want to try it out! More tomorrow. Comment from Bruce Warren(@bruce

... command, it locks the agent conversation so the agent can use the tool set. To exit, just type "/exit" and it will return to the default mode. Would love to hear your thoughts feedback is always welcome! Comment from Bruce Warren(@bruce

... Solo builder here, won't say much about the product yet but happy to talk shop on the plumbing. Quick version of what I'd tell my past self: Auth - Supabase, Clerk, Auth0, pick one. An afternoon of setup vs. days of building it badly. I tried the days version first, do not recommend. Permissions - this is the sneaky one. Most people check "can this user see this?" in their app code. Way better to push the rule into ... ... mobile app. RevenueCat isn't something I know much about, I'll have to look into it! Comment from Ryan Hendrickson(@ryan_hendrickson): @maria_vannicola  Nice! Was there something that brought you to use Firebase over other alternatives

... everyone I m Bruce. I ve been following PH for a while and finally decided to join the conversations here. I m really into no-code, data visualization, and indie making in general. I enjoy experimenting with ideas and building small projects along the way. Excited to learn from all of you and connect with more makers here. What s everyone currently working ...