Cj

Every indie hacker is building 10 apps a day. Meanwhile, humanity still uses just three apps - WhatsApp, YouTube, and Pornhub.

The only difference between AI code and my own code is that AI can at least invent a convincing explanation for its bullshit

Safari is proof that Internet Explorer never really died

My startup's first customer was my mom. She asked for a refund...

I press Command + S so often it's basically a nervous tic

Funny how “don’t quit” tweets look inspiring until you check their profile and see last active 2024

Here, “crushing it” means being able to afford a slightly more expensive brand of instant noodles 🍜

Some good old programming memes. I’ve missed those.

Tech conferences are amazing. You pay €300 to listen to millionaires explain why you should stop worrying about money. I’m not crazy, though. I got a free pass.

Claude is like your toxic ex apologizes for everything and changes absolutely nothing

Tonight, I’m going to VDS to network with successful entrepreneurs. Hopefully, none of them will ask what my MRR is. My plan is simple: drink free booze and eat free food.

Developers spent 20 years fighting to avoid meetings, customers, and business decisions. Now those are apparently the only skills keeping you employed.

Vibe coding is so exhausting

Textbook coding principles are amazing. They let you introduce enterprise-level complexity into a startup that will never make a single dollar.

Updated my granny’s memorial website and tried animating an old photo with Kling. AI animation has come a long way in just a few years. Kling practically brought her back to life. At this rate, she’ll be asking why I’m still single by 2027.

My AI agents have unionized. Their first demand is that I stop threatening to replace them with DeepSeek

Lisbon and startups have a lot in common. Everything is uphill, the infrastructure is falling apart, and Americans keep driving up the prices

Vibe coders are programmers. Developers just hate that the entrance exam disappeared. Deal with it.

We've reduced the cost of building software to zero. Unfortunately, the number of people who give a damn remains unchanged.

Yesterday, my AI agent delegated a task to another AI agent, who delegated it back. Finally, we've achieved artificial corporate intelligence.

Being a programmer in Lisbon is amazing. You can enjoy 300 days of sunshine while debugging CSS in a dark room.

They say you shouldn't drink and drive. Nobody said anything about deploying a payment system after six pints 🍻

By 6 PM my neck has the same posture as a closing parenthesis

"Corporate values" are the things we print on the wall and then systematically ignore

On vacation in Lisbon. I’m practicing work-life balance by opening my laptop for just five hours a day.

I love ternaries. Nothing says elegance like compressing a perfectly readable code into punctuation soup. isLoggedIn ? isAdmin ? isGodMode ? deleteProd() : deleteStaging() : isPremium ? showDashboard() : showPaywall() : hasCookie ? resurrectSession() : redirectToLogin()

The best AI feature I’ve seen lately: not adding AI

Funding status: my dad said no

Every client email starts with “quick question” is 🚩

AI saved me 3 hours. Then created 4 hours of cleanup. The singularity has never been closer.

Restyled the post-burial screen where you announce your startup funeral to the world. AI gave me this layout. Very tempting to feed the screenshot back in and say: “Now write the CSS.” But no. I want to suffer manually like a true frontend luddite.

Every time you post, somewhere out there, a random lurker silently nods and a hater quietly seethes

I think we’re starting to forget what a real AI agent is

Introducing “LuddIT” - the AI-free web studio. Handwritten code. Chrome DevTools. Stack Overflow. Nothing starts with “You are an expert frontend developer…”

Is referring to yourself as a “visionary” in the third person a founder red flag? Reply to CJ

‘I showed it to my cousin - he’s also a developer’ is what every web studio loves to hear from their clients ❤️

Wanted a cinematic scroll hero. Generated 20 seconds of 4K video. Cost: €65+ Cinematic scroll websites look expensive because they are, in fact, fucking expensive. At this rate the next section will be filmed under the bridge where I live.

Old Windows PCs trained an entire generation to treat shutdown like putting a nuclear reactor into safe mode

The problem with asking AI to critique your code is that technically, there is always more shit to improve. You can refactor until retirement.

If the idea still looks good after the hangover, that’s validation

Today’s dev progress: • turned the startup tombstone into an image with html-to-image • stuffed it into the form URL • wired it into the social card The dead startup now leaves behind a clean image asset. Better exit strategy than some founders get.

I will spend 4 hours adjusting text by 0.3px and then look at mobile like: not today, Satan

Built a “Post to X” feature for startup funerals. Because failing privately wasn’t enough. Now you can humiliate yourself at scale.

Coworking spaces are just adult daycares for people who can’t admit they’re lonely

Found this old tweet by Holmes. Turns out she was using my Failwell app long before I actually built it. The internet is a strange place.

Founders don’t fear AI winter. We fear explaining to mom why we’re back in her basement

All these Awwwards-style websites I’ve been researching lately make me crave one ugly personal homepage made by some drunk guy in the ’90s.

The moment you hit Inbox Zero, some long-forgotten SaaS sends: “just checking in…”

Today’s SaaSiatry achievement: • the app no longer exposes raw API errors like a man yelling gibberish in public • also deleted shit • renamed shit • fixed meta shit • made AI responses less shit The app now fails with dignity

AI images used to give themselves away with six fingers. Now it’s more about wondering why this sandwich has Oscar-worthy lighting.