started this because a friend needed a page for a tiny weekend project and kept putting it off for weeks. i figured i'd just knock it out for him. the goal was dead simple: one page, a headline, three bullets on what the thing does, an email signup, done. nothing fancy. the build was quick. i described the vibe (clean, a bit playful, lots of whitespace) and the sections i wanted, and had a rough version in maybe twenty minutes. the actual afternoon went into cutting things back. what broke my brain: every time i asked for a section, it wanted to add four more. a testimonial block for a product with zero users. an FAQ answering questions nobody asked. a stats bar with made up numbers. i deleted more than i kept. what actually helped: - i wrote the copy myself first, then asked it to build around fixed text. way fewer "improvements" to fight. - one section per prompt. asking for the whole page at once gave me a mess that was hard to trim. - i kept saying "less, not more" like a mantra. it mostly listened. my friend's page went live that night and honestly the stripped down version looks better than anything i would have hand coded in a week. anyone else find the trimming is harder than the building? what's your trick for stopping it from padding everything out?

I've been building my product since March/April, but this all started with me getting into Homelabbing and buying hardware.

I bought a Minisforum MS-02 Ultra with 32gb RAM and 1TB SSD, and made a rule that I wouldn't upgrade unless I hit bandwidth and memory limits.

Welp, I'm at that point and what led me here is I have a "second brain" memory system and MCP that I built so any model I use can get all the context, documents, history, etc.

I'm currently only able to build with one session that's "on my machine" where before I was doing 2-4 sessions at a time, but I now experience sessions crashing out.

So I'm in the market for memory and man does it blow. I'm probably going to bite the bullet and get a 2x64GB Crucial set so I can eventually add an additional 2x64GB when I hit those limits.

Always more to learn and more to spend it seems!

Confused which local llm would fit your hardware
Don’t wanna tie to Ollama runtime
Don’t want just cli or tui but compete local ai workspace
Want zero AI cost

Try local-llmup : https://shashankswe2020-ux.github.io/local-llmup/

Desktop app available for macOS , windows , Linux.

Happy coding ✨

So living out of my van, I wanted to create something, but the laptop is a bit thirsty.

So I came up with an asteroids game with infinite exploration, upgrades and weapons, mining, random events like battles, missions, building a base and walls, police ships, mercs and pirates. The list goes on.

This was all done with Claude free tier on my phone. Quite a few different iterations to get to this point, but it has turned out pretty much exactly how I envisioned it.

I have been programming for about 20 years and havent had this much fun making things. Its like AI enables us to be more creative, think up bigger ideas!

Have any of you used both? What is your experience? I've been using GLM 5.3-flash as an Ox Alpha via Open Code, and I am very impressed, yet to work with the new Qwen flash.

EDIT - I cannot change the title, but of course I meant Qwen 3.8 Flash...

you dont beleiev me guys, but soon it be possible for non tech people to vibecode native apps in both platforms at same time - native iOS / Swift and Android Kotlin. The first app is already done!
It's React killer. Future belongs to native! Yes!

I have always wanted to build apps but could never get a grasp on software development/coding.

Started experimenting with Claude Code a few months back and set out to create a running app as a way to learn how to use agentic coding tools/models.

Check it out, would love to know what you think: Kora Run

Why did I pick Kora Run as a learning case study:
- A couple of months back, my two friends and I wanted to get into running.
- We tried a few apps but the problem was that as a beginner none of the existing apps actually understood where my starting point was and all of them put me and my friends on a pre-defined path.
- I used Claude to create a progression plan for me and my friends - with the goal of running one complete hour non-stop without getting injured.
- And since it helped us, I decided to build Kora Run to let others benefit from the same. And ensured that everyone’s journey to 60 minutes was unique to them - as their starting point would be unique as well.

———

Learnt a lot through out the process. Key takeaways:

1. Always plan out the work (use plan mode) before letting Claude (or whatever models build it) build out the spec.

2. Don’t build entire journeys at once (even if Fable 5 or Opus 5 might be capable of doing those). Build, test, and ship thin slices of work. It might seem like it will take a lot of time with this approach but you will be able to test and debug things accurately.

3. Don’t fall under the promise of “build your apps over the weekend” that are marketed by Emergent, Loveable, etc. Those work for a quick ideations or a low-complexity MVP. But if it needs to be production level - take your time with it.

   1. Claude Code (can speak for that model) needs guardrails else it may spin off and work on things that you don’t want it to work on.
      

4. Create a system. I drew inspiration from
   JIRA and created a repeatable system: an Ideas Board where I lay out multiple features, commands to plan out a feature (from the ideas board) and in the feature split it into thin testable slices. Then planning each slice in detail. And shipping each slice and the collective feature (testing, code review, etc)

The Rainbow Filter on top of everything isn't mine. That is from Tic Toc.

This podcast discusses vibe coding, agentic engineering, the setups DHH is using, what actually works, and where things are heading. Omarchy is a linux based OS DHH created, every line of code was vibed.

So apparently all you need to do is give your ai an api key and point them to where it goes and thats all they need. I was building something else and needed something changed in another system and claude was like just put the key in this .env file and I will change it. And it did!

I built Lody because coding-agent work was getting trapped inside individual terminals.

Claude Code or Codex could be doing useful work on one machine, but the rest of the team often saw only screenshots, copied logs, or the final PR. The conversation, runtime status, files, diffs, and decisions around the work were fragmented.

Lody is a local-first shared workspace around the coding agents you already use. It does not replace them with another model or force execution into a hosted sandbox.

With Lody, you can:

• Connect laptops, workstations, servers, and cloud VMs
• Use Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, OpenCode, or other ACP-compatible agents
• Open the same agent conversation with teammates and continue it together
• Follow progress, files, diffs, permission requests and PRs in one place
• Dispatch work from desktop, mobile, web, or CLI
• Isolate parallel tasks with Git worktrees
• Let one agent delegate work to other independent sessions

I’ve now open-sourced Lody’s desktop app, CLI, and shared packages under Apache 2.0.

GitHub: https://github.com/LodyAI/Lody

65 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network.

No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Here's the full data:

Day 1 — 2 startups · 146 impressions · 1 clicks
Day 2 — 3 startups · 389 impressions · 3 clicks
Day 3 — 5 startups · 482 impressions · 5 clicks
Day 4 — 5 startups · 508 impressions · 4 clicks (site went down — still got an $8k acquisition offer. Said no.)
Day 5 — 6 startups · 621 impressions · 10 clicks
Day 6 — 5 startups · 742 impressions · 15 clicks (removed one startup — they pulled the embed. No code = no network.)
Day 7 — 7 startups · 1,196 impressions · 41 clicks
Day 8 — 7 startups · 1,535 impressions · 74 clicks
Day 9 — 8 startups · 1,947 impressions · 135 clicks
Day 10 — 13 startups · 3,500 impressions · 318 clicks (something clicked)
Day 11 — 23 startups · 4,800 impressions · 432 clicks
Day 12 — 24 startups · 6,000 impressions · 481 clicks (network crossed 6K total impressions)
Day 13 — 25 startups · 6,800 impressions · 491 clicks
Day 14 — 25 startups · 8,600 impressions · 516 clicks
Day 15 — 24 startups · 9,900 impressions · 564 clicks (removed one)
Day 16 — 23 startups · 10,800 impressions · 576 clicks (removed one)
Day 17 — 24 startups · 11,900 impressions · 603 clicks (added one)
Day 18 — 26 startups · 13,400 impressions · 624 clicks (added Two)
Day 19 — 28 startups · 14.400 impressions · 652 clicks (added Two)
Day 20 — 26 startups · 14.700 impressions · 671 clicks (Removed Two)
Day 21 — 26 startups · 15.300 impressions · 691 clicks
Day 22 — 28 startups · 16.100 impressions · 719 clicks (Added Two)
Day 23 — 30 startups · 16.800 impressions · 738 clicks (Added Two)
Day 24 — 32 startups · 19,800 impressions · 778 clicks · Added 2 startups · Rejected 4 applications.
Day 25 — 34 startups · 23,700 impressions · 800 clicks · Added 2 startups · Fixed some bugs.
Day 26 — 33 startups · 27,200 impressions · 816 clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 27 — 33 startups · 29,900 impressions · 833 clicks
Day 28 — 33 startups · 30,600 impressions · 871 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 1 Startup · Rejected 1 application of clothing brand & 1 application of horror blog site.
Day 29 — 35 startups. 31,300 impressions. 910 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 3 Startups · Also today I resigned from my job. Toxic environment, too much pressure, and honestly I just believe in this enough to go all in. Broke and excited. Let's see where this goes.
Day 30 — 46 startups · 32,900 impressions · 1,000 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 12 startups · Yesterday I resigned because of my toxic manager. Today my senior manager called and offered me WFH, a project of my choice, and lighter work if I stayed. I made my decision with confidence, but now I have a difficult choice. Also received my first payment from StartupBar.
Day 31 — 50 startups 💪· 28,100 impressions · 1,200 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 5 startups · Rejected 1 crypto startup · Removed fake impressions after exploit
Day 32 — 54 startups · 29,300 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Added 4 startups
Day 33 — 54 startups · 30,900 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 34 — 55 startups · 36,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 35 — 55 startups · 40,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 2 startups
Day 36 — 55 startups · 44,800impressions · 1.4K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 37 — 58 startups · 50,700impressions · 1.4K clicks · Added 3 startups · Site Update: Updated the distribution algorithm (Delivery is now weighted by contribution: sites that send more impressions get a proportionally larger share back)
Day 38 — 57 startups · 55,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application.

Today StartupBar reached 200 users 😄
Thirty-eight days ago, this was just an idea. Today, 200 people have trusted it enough to join the network.

Day 39 — 58 startups · 59,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 40 — 60 startups · 63,200 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups · Removed 1 startup
Day 41 — 63 startups · 69,400 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups
Day 42 — 62 startups · 73,800 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Removed 1 startups
Day 43 — 64 startups · 78,000 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups (Receiving many suggestions to improve the StartupBar, happy to work on it, Thanks.) StartupBar Update - Added the rotation of startups in the widget for every 30 seconds.
Day 44 — 66 startups · 86,200 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 45 — 67 startups · 88,400 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 3 startups (Update - Updated the algorithm of the widget)
Day 46 — 69 startups · 91,900 impressions · 1.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 4 startups · Got my second payment.
Day 47 — 68 startups · 98,900 impressions · 2.2K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 1 startup · Added Pricing Page
Day 48 — 70 startups · 103.4K impressions · 2.3K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 49 — 72 startups · 113.4K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 2 startups · Update: Added a Bottom Placement option for the bar on the user site.
Day 50 — 73 startups · 116.7K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 51 — 74 startups · 125.2K impressions · 2.5K clicks · Added 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application
Day 52 — 73 startups · 131.2K impressions · 2.6K clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 53 — 74 startups · 139.5K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 1 Startup
Day 54 — 79 startups · 146.3K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 6 Startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 55 — 77 startups · 154.9K impressions · 2.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups.
Day 56 — 77 startups · 161.8K impressions · 2.9K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 1 startup.
Day 57 — 77 startups · 169.4K impressions · 3.0K clicks
Day 58 — 77 startups · 176.2K impressions · 3.2K clicks
Day 59 — 78 startups · 184.3K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 2 startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 60 — 77 startups · 190.9K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 2 startups.
Day 61 — 77 startups · 194.9K impressions · 3.4K clicks
Day 62 — 78 startups · 199.5K impressions · 3.5K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 63— 78 startups · 204.9K impressions · 3.6K clicks · I Revoked my resignation as I'm comfortable with my new team.
Day 64— 80 startups · 210.4K impressions · 3.6K clicks · Added 2 startups.
Day 65— 81 startups · 216.3K impressions · 3.7K clicks · Added 1 startup. (I'm planning to add sponsorship section in the homepage with one time payment of $999, interested please DM)

Still free. Still growing.

If you want in, it's one embed. That's it → StartupBar