Pixelhop

Hi Bluesky 👋 We are Pixelhop, a small husband and wife run agency from the UK Making websites, apps, & other digital things for clients like F1, Bugatti, NBA and working on in house SaaS projects Currently working on Chat Thing, an AI assistant builder Love Vue.js Nuxt Prisma PostgrSQL Tailwind

@hendrik-erz.de Thank you so much for this article hendrik-erz.de/post/code-si... I honestly think I would have given up without it! What a crazy process haha

What it feels like to be a web developer this month

Don't make this same mistake! This is what it looks like if build a B2B SaaS and you don't build Teams/Organisations functionality right at the beginning 😅

I wish Cursor tied chats to the current branch you are working on. I want to be able to be experimenting vibe coding a feature on one branch, then switch to another branch to implement something else small and come back to my vibe branch with all the cursor state restored.

Ooof we've been so stacked on client work for quite a while abnd our SaaS apps have taken a back seat. Feels good to get this first changlelog in a while out! chatthing.ai/blog/try-gpt...

Boss for my attempt at the @levels.io #vibejam is finally coming together It's a multiplayer pirate game, where you collect treasure and power-ups whilst battling other players Watch out of you are currently in the lead though! A giant octopus spawns and targets the lead player brutal ink attacks

Holy moly we are at number 4! This is going so much better than we could have imagined. Can we we catch up number 3 bsky? 🔥🔥 www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t... #buildinpublic

Yayayayayyy!!! We have now over taken our last Product Hunt launch AND we are 6th!!! WAHOOO!!!! Common bsky!!! Do you reckon you we can get into the top 5??? #buildinpublic www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t...

Haha we've just realised we up against OpenAI today but we are not that far behind! OpenAI 160 - Chat Thing 118! Come up bsky #buildinpublic can we take down the Goliath? www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t...

After a couple of years of hard work, we’re finally launching on Product Hunt again to celebrate everything we’ve built and all the new features we’ve released! 🚀 www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t... #buildinpublic

I’ve just scheduled an email to go out to our subscribers about our Product Hunt Launch - doing some a/b testing with the subject line. What one do you think will do better? Also if you would like to follow us on Product Hunt you can find us here www.producthunt.com/products/cha... #buildinpublic

Getting ready for our next Product Hunt Launch 🚀 wahooo! We haven’t for a couple years and made some mistakes so trying to make sure we don’t do them twice! Has anyone else done one? Check out our silly pic hehe www.producthunt.com/products/cha... #buildinpublic #indiehacker #producthuntlaunch

Turns out o1 is still pretty crap at chess! Just drawn with 4o in its first game 😅

Is OpenAI o1 good at chess? We've got it playing 4o currently here so will be interesting to see! llm-battle.chatthing.ai

Yay our AI support ticket bot is very happy with us this morning! No outstanding support requests so instead its told us to plan new features 🤣 #keeptheaioverlordshappy #buildinpublic

Happy new year! We’re officially back in the office! I hope you all had lovely festivities? We had an amazing Christmas but then got taken down by flu for new years, can’t have it all though right?! Who’s ready for routine again or still wanting cheese and biscuits? #smallbusiness #webagency

We've added scheduled tasks to Chat Thing so you can get your AI bots to run tasks on a schedule and its so useful! We are automating loads with this. For example we have a task that checks all open support tickets in Notion and then posts a summary into Slack as 7am each day. #ai #buildinpublic

It's just another ChatGPT wrapper...

Found something that's really hard to prompt out of models today! Getting LLMs to output Slack's single asterisk *bold* text instead of standard markdown **bold** was harder than expected! In the end we've opted to post process the response to convert double ** to singles 🤣

Wow we've closed 320 PRs on Chat Thing this year! I knew we shipped a lot but that was still more than I was expecting! #buildinpublic

Why doesn't Stripe have a simple endpoint for pulling common SaaS stats such as MRR and churn ect? Am I blind or is there not a default way to do this? I want to make a little reports bot that summarises our stats at the end of the month and posts them to Slack. #buildinpublic

Its only taken all day but its done now! Phew. Now just need to record the video version.

Having an AI assistant right in Slack is so useful! One of our devs noticed an email got put in spam and dumped the gobbledygook email headers into Slack to so we could debug it. Its all alien to me, but I asked our GPT-4 bot to take a look and it deciphered it for me! #buildinpublic

Does any one else put in loads of effort to grind out the last 10% of a feature, think you're done and celebrate... then you remember you need to write docs which is gunna take almost as long as writing the code! Thats me today 🤣 SaaS is a lot of work for small teams! #buildinpublic

Let's make Bluesky a better place for indie founders. It's a fair criticism that Starter Packs were a great marketing strategy. That once the novelty wears off, Bluesky might go downhill just like Threads. And to prevent that, we need to put effort to nurture the community ↓

We could get used to this view 😍😍

We’ve got a few days off work for our daughter’s 2nd birthday! Not a bad place to wake up 🌅 😍

Anyone else quite like a rainy walk? Or are we mad? 😂

This post is nuts!

blueskycounter.com is back online! It now shows historical follower growth all the way back from when you firsted signed up to Bluesky Reposts appreciated 😊

Ok Bluesky that’s the perfect number of followers no more please 🙏 don’t mess it up!

Whoop just wrapped up a big old PR for Chat Thing. Happy Friday! #buildinpublic

Everything about @nuxt.com DX is is super thoughtful!

Created a Building in Public starter pack🥳 If you're an indie hacker or a solopreneur building in public, feel free to join. 👉 Share what you are building in public ❤️Like this post 🔄 And Repost #buildinginpublic #buildinpublic #saas go.bsky.app/B7RuFmy

Has any one figured out how to get their bsky follower count on a LaMetric clock yet? Or do I need to make an app? #buildinpublic #indiehackers