Nic Coates

I found this nice little project that tells you whether the UK or Australia's grid is green 🌍. Right now, the UK is 57% green and most is from solar (makes sense, we're being boiled by the sun) 👇 www.isthegridgreen.com

A few nice updates to Stargazing Score today 👇 ⏰ Best viewing time 📅 A forecast for the next few nights www.stargazingscore.com #BuildInPublic

Been working on a little project using @atproto.com and I'm almost at the stage to onboard a few people to test it. I'll share more in the next few days as I finish a couple of features that are needed for launch. Interested? Let me know 👇 #BuildInPublic #ATProtocol #Atmosphere

👋 What's up, folks? I'm back here after a little hiatus elsewhere (yeah, not going back).

🏕️ One of my favourite things about camping is looking up at the night sky. So I built Stargazing Score 🌌 Enter any UK postcode to see if tonight's conditions are good for stargazing. www.stargazingscore.com Feedback welcome ✨ #BuildInPublic

We're a fully remote team at Sorry™, which I love. But there's something that happens when we're actually in the same room that async just can't replicate. My CEO was in town this week and a few days of that energy carries you for months. Remote is the future. But presence still matters.

It's Friday! Been quiet on here as I've been busy with website bits! One of the exciting things I launched this week was a new app design for Scout Pages 👇

Different weekend… went to paint your own pottery with friends. I chose this skateboard and used freckle paints. Not the straightest lines (iykyk) but pleased! Picking up on Wednesday after being in the kiln.

Why waste time building your own landing page and shoving a form on to collect people wanting to try? Check out WaitShip 👇

Oh wow, excited for @offprint.app 🚀 Super clean landing page @aka.dad - can't wait to get my hands on for my new blog!

🧭 I needed a new AirTag for my keys (use one for my backpack/suitcase) so grabbed the new Gen 2 on launch day. Got this cute little knit loop from mophie too!

🐶 It's official! On the 2nd of March, I will officially be a puppy socialiser for Dogs for Good... and have my own puppy to train! She will be with me for 18 months, and is a lab/retriever cross 🥰

In other news today … I had my home visit with Dogs for Good to finalise becoming a puppy socialiser! Several weeks time I’ll have a puppy bouncing around the house 🐶

First day of CES, as always Aqara making heads turn! Few of my favs: 🚪 Smart Lock U400 - Killer feature? UWB! Unlocks as soon as you are 6 feet away! It’s Apple Home key supported too! ♨️ W200 thermostat - 4-inch touchscreen & supports Apple’s Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance feature

Happy New Year 🥳 It's been a while since I last posted here. I took a two-week trip to the Caribbean, then Christmas and New Year. I'm back now, focus in 2026 is use @bsky.app a lot more as my main social account 💪

Creating an "agents.md" file but for social media content. Definitely an interesting one I've been tasked with but the aim is to use AI to help us use existing content and help shape up a 4-6 week schedule.

Thanks for the invite @germnetwork.com. You can now DM safely! Who’s also using Germ? Let’s DM 💪

So, I failed this over the weekend. I was so motivated at the beginning, I then got to Saturday night and got burnt out. I also think there are more worthwhile platforms out there that have built incredibly engagement so adding another pre-launch tool doesn't make sense.

🚀WEEKEND CHALLENGE: I’m building Tease Launch LIVE. A tiny pre-launch platform for indie makers. Submit → Curated weekly drops → Metrics -> Promote Goal: MVP live by Monday morning. Follow along. Submit your tease. Break the noise. #buildinpublic #indiehacker

AWS outage yesterday? Your status page is your lifeline. If you can't log in to update it during an outage, it's time to rethink providers. Post-incident review: prioritise a reliable, accessible status page to keep users informed.

👋 morning happy Wednesday. time for 🫖 and then a bit of coding for new project plus work bits.

Well, that wasn’t most of my evening spent trying to get OAuth set up via @bsky.app and my little app. Wrapping up the evening with it fully working and ready to work on the stream of statuses tomorrow!

Hey everyone! I am looking for people who are interested in or already are a 'bluesky influencer'. I am looking to get my bluesky tool in front of more people. This would be paid of course. Feel free to send me a DM if you are interested!

Thought I'd give the new #chatgpt apps a go, specifically #Spotify. I read the OpenAI announcement "Apps will be available today to all logged-in ChatGPT users outside of the EU"... I'm in the UK, we're not in the EU (anymore). Specifically say EU + UK if that's the case 🤦‍♂️

Took a few last minute days camping in the lovely Dawlish! Back home today and then ready to start working on my ATProto status project 💪

Happy Tuesday folks 👋 Today, I'm starting a little project trying out @atproto.com and building a small app. #buildinpublic #atproto

Well, this is worrying. GitHub is essentially being moved into the AI era. I do not want my code to the stored, inspected and consumed by AI. Thankfully, there are alternatives like @tangled.sh but getting PaaS/IaaS providers to implement is going to be a journey.

Almost the start of a new week, folks! I’ve made an effort to not be bound to the screen today. We’re coming into a heatwave in the UK so fully making most of being outside with family! Back to it tomorrow!

Happy Saturday, folks! Up early and already a productive morning (after a cup of tea ☕️). I've shipped the landing page for @firecircle.co 🥳 It's simple, but that's all it needs for now. #buildinpublic

Super lucky that I can step out of my house, and walk into a wild meadow. When the sun is shining, a gentle breeze and the sound of birds, it truly helps me to take a breather and clear my mind.

Happy Friday folks! My plan today is to continue working on my new product. 💻 Authentication - sign up, login, logout, reset password 🌍 Communities - create a community 🎨 Landing page - throw up a simple landing page What's everyone's plans for today?! #buildinpublic

Getting back to building a product 💪 Took time to walk along the river, flesh out the idea and refine it over a 🍺! Excited to be back to building again! #buildinpublic

Does anyone know when @skylight.social will be available to download in the UK? feel like I am missing out!

I absolutely love meeting customers, finding out their problems and what a status page can do to solve them. I've just got off a call with a customer and I would never have thought to use status page in a way they are wanting to. Never focus on one use case 🫡

12 days in running iOS26 public beta. In that time, I've been on holiday, played a tonne of Pokemon Go, recorded videos and more. Battery life isn't great (always is the case) but so far, not really found any bugs! Liquid glass is ok, not a game changer for me.

Oops! I could hear a weird noise downstairs... my robot vacuum was having a bit of a fight with a shoelace 🤦‍♂️ The *only* thing I wish the K10 mini would be better at is obstacles like shoes.

Coming off a call with a customer about privacy concerns. Some valid points, some points I disagreed with. But ultimately, it's been a learning curve, helping to make the product better for privacy 👌

Installed! It's going to take some time to get used to Liquid Glass - changed the tint/clear several times, still not sure. I'm sure it'll grow on me, just have to accept change. Now installing iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 (which is taking ages to download).

Let’s go! Probably the worst thing to do before going on holiday for a week but YOLO!

Today’s the day @bsky.app will ask UK users to verify age using KWS. I’ve just gone through the process, and was pleasantly surprised when I could choose using my face as identity or verifying with a credit card. I did the latter as don’t want my ID with Epic Games 🎉

Interesting... the UK's Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is following in similar steps that EU made 2 years ago against Apple & Google. Could we see dedicated app stores from the likes of Epic Games?Decrease in in-app $$? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Another AI Chatbot enters the ring ... I like the privacy element but where do we draw the line with so many options?

Loving the refinements to the UI, especially the dashboard! One of the first things I’ll do when I get home from holiday: update!