Aleksi

Hola, it's Aleksi. Systems engineer, ex-competitive programmer, FAFOer. Building in public: - Cabin: videos worth the time they ask for. cabin.watch - belay: run anything in a fork, see what it did - "installed nginx", not 2000 changed files. Discard/commit. Decisions, numbers, failures, FAFOs.

Next wall: Google Wanted some of Cabin's first users to find it by accident. Google said no - 159 pages: 8 indexed, 151 not. 73 of them should be. That's supposedly normal for new domains. So the first users have to come from people, not search. Sadge.

Had to turn on CAPTCHA on a site I've barely marketed. In 2 weeks, bots fed 203 scraped emails into my forms. Each one got a confirmation from cabin.watch - 203 strangers who never asked for anything. One gov address, three times. If your form sends email, it's a spam cannon until proven otherwise

Just got mac for the first time. I have never been more disgusted with OS. and I have dealt with w11 on a daily basis

Looking for videos that are genuinely good but never really took off. the kind you immediately wanna send to someone. any topic, any length; just needs to be English on youtube.

Great creators trying to blend in is one of the more depressing things rn great title, great thumbnail, genuinely good content - still dissatisfying. content doesn't match the premise. They morph the title into something more generic and clickbaity. more clicks, more mismatch, more dissatisfaction

"Youtube is full of slop" yeah bcs it optimizes for retention. everyone gets in, retention decides what wins, and slop beats borderline everything else, especially in volume. gate the entry and watch it bloom.