Cole Robertson

Cole Robertson

@colerobertson.dev

CTO/Co-founder @ dScribeai.com -> Analyze any video on the internet with just a URL Startup and AI enthusiast Posting about all things web dev. Rocking and rolling with Rails + InertiaJS + React

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Has anyone had success with bounties for 3rd party integrations for your app or API? I’d love to start working with the community on getting both SDK integrations and no code integrations with systems like Make and Zapier going!

For those using Inertia + Rails, since the routing here is still defined in the server controllers, it’s as easy as bundle add rack-mini-profiler to add SQL performance profiling to your app per page! I have it set up to have profiling on prod for admins as well! github.com/MiniProfiler...

github.comGitHub - MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler: Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps. - GitHub - MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler: Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.

Get a co-founder. I see so many indie devs are one person business stories where they either get burnt out or would move so much faster with a co-founder. Help fill the holes you are missing, have a partner to keep you motivated and shipping. Your business will flourish. I’m so grateful for mine!

I know someone needs to hear this right now. I’m fortunate to know one of my co-founders from back in college where we were hacking together, the other we met through the YC co-founder platform. Go meet someone, in person or online. Find someone you want to do life/ business together and go!

One thing I’m valuing the most on our founding team is that we have differing opinions. Often, at least one of us offers a new perspective on the issue or opportunity. It’s refreshing to have a founding team that is comfortable with this and ultimately it allows us to come to the best decisions.

Take every meeting with people that you can. Seems counterproductive, maker schedule anyone? But being able to connect with people that I know or want to has been amazing. I’m a firm believer in having a breadth of knowledge and connections. Connecting dots later happens in unexpected ways

I’ve been an “Apple notes for everything” kind of guy forever now. With Basecamp turning back on their free plan, it’s got me thinking if I should upgrade my project management game. Anyone have any tools they recommend they use daily to keep organized?

After working remote for years now, I’m incredibly excited getting an office for our startup. What are some game changers any startup founders have added to their office?

The result in my experience, was was only effective in a very close copilot sense. I felt in this way, I may as well be using Cursor myself with composer mode and completing the task with the AI co-pilot. It does not feel like it's ready to tackle anything of substance independently.

The goal for me where this would be useful, is given the tool a tech spec, most likely o1 assisted written by me, and the result would be an agentic completion of each step unless it gets stuck, and then it'd jump in to unblock.

It wrote a migration that would've resulted in data loss and typically took wayy too long between iterations. Many times it hit full work units without making any iterative progress and put itself to sleep.

“Close the Gap” From my upcoming post I’m writing on #Inertiajs based on Ryan Florence’s talk “mind the gap” Really looking forward to putting pen to paper on this concept I’ve been preaching about.

The state of Backend and Frontend frameworks. Backend moved across the network with things like Hotwire and turbo with #rails Frontend moved across the network with new React 19, RSC, #Nextjs What if you could keep the best of both worlds and really “close that gap”? #Inertiajs

Every single #Nextjs time project I’ve come into, the team has regretted choosing it as the codebase expands. Inevitably, there is some background process or more complex backend logic that needs to happen and the project ends up with disparate code spread between Supabase functions, Lambdas, etc

Everything is trade offs of course. I’ve worked on multiple #Rails projects, and while the backend and Gems allow very tightly integrated solutions, you then have to fill in many gaps on the front end side. I’m very bullish on bridging these gaps with #Inertiajs

Let’s build a starter pack of everyone that is building with #inertiajs! Would love to get both #Laravel and #Rails folks as well. Comment here if you’d like to be added and let’s build this community 😃

Let’s build a starter pack of everyone that is building with #inertiajs! Would love to get both #Laravel and #Rails folks as well. Comment here if you’d like to be added and let’s build this community 😃

Has anyone switch from #rails to #laravel? What made you switch and anything you miss from Rails? With the influx of both VC funding and new devs coming in the Laravel space, it’s hard not to compare and build where the community is 👀

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