Over the past one, 2, or even 3 decades, technological development has accelerated dramatically thanks to the digital revolution.
But some technologies generate a lot of hype and still don t seem to have reached mass adoption or shown enough long-term potential. For example, that s how I currently see wearable glasses.
On the other hand, technologies and concepts like the internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and perhaps even Bitcoin have already had a profound impact on society.
Hi Makers! This thread is dedicated to you if you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page First, start by helping out another maker. You can check out their launch, give their product a review or share a comment on their launch post. Once you've helped someone else out, share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help.
Something I wish I'd understood earlier about working with coding agents: there is no such thing as dispatching without a spec. There's only choosing who writes it.
When you send an agent a one-liner like "fix the login timeout", the unstated parts don't stay undecided. The model fills every blank with defaults from its training data the average project, the average convention, the average meaning of that sentence across every repo it has seen. Where your codebase matches the average, those fill-ins are invisible because they happen to be right. Where it doesn't, you get a diff that answers a question you never asked.
An intern who hits ambiguity tends to come ask. An agent mostly picks, and rarely flags the pick a constraint that never made it into the context might as well not exist.
So we stopped asking "spec or no spec" and started asking two questions before every dispatch. How long would a wrong guess stay invisible? And how far is this task from the average project the model trained on? Fast feedback plus mainstream shape: one line, go. Slow feedback plus weird shape: write the contract, and budget the writing as part of the build.
I wish someone had told me how much time it would take. I was so naive when I started my company, thinking that it would be easy to get off the ground and make a name for myself. What I didn't realize until later is that there's so much work involved in building a business and so many things that can go wrong. I'm grateful for my experience now, but if I could go back and tell myself something about starting a company, it would be: "Don't expect things to go smoothly. And if you had to pivot... PIVOT!"
One of the most effective and affordable marketing strategies is WOM (word of mouth) getting other people to share your product and potentially spark curiosity or create a domino effect.
Over the past few days, several people:
have shared screenshots of my tool on social media, sent me DMs saying they like it, or left reviews on the Chrome Web Store. I plan to use them in: the landing page marketing materials (Chrome Web Store) possibly advertisement and "show off on socials"
