Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar
@hboon
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Full-time indie building @thebluesocial. 30yr programmer. SaaS growth lessons + experiments, and behind-the-scenes. Follow for practical dev & indie insights
Singapore
Joined October 2007
Weekly update: * Banned from X ads * Started Reddit ads * Improve feedback widget by building trust * Make Google One Tap appear sooner * Create more PostHog funnels to discover what works * Enhance /clean-up-followings based on user request #buildinpublic
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The cold truth is bugging people actually works. We give them nice names though, activation, reactivation, feature adoption, etc. #buildinpublic
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Spending too many partial days on this attempt to improve conversion in a free tool. Just going to simplify it now otherwise it'll never ship #buildinpublic
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Claude Code and Codex have paired up to fix starvation 🤣
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🚩 Superslow climb to DR for @thebluesocial again. 40 was a milestone and then it stalled for weeks again #buildinpublic
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Finally past 2300 followers on Bluesky. I lose followers almost as much as I gain them
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If anyone is wondering (like me) where is this Claude Code on Desktop macOS app. It's in the original Claude app tugged in a button.
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Weekly update * Launched Black Friday campaign+ emailed past users (15% off) * Fixed pricing bug causing checkout drop-offs (Bluesky login popup) * Added UI toggles to simulate unpaid + no-account users * Improved signup notifications with richer Telegram context #buildinpublic
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Postponed migration to self-hosting, again #buildinpublic
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80% of the needs around coding-agent orchestration are already covered by using tmux windows, splits, and git
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I learnt this because I thought images were uploaded to the https://t.co/V2FQyvbbXX scheduler in the wrong order 🤣
theblue.social
Cross-post X, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Bluesky and Mastodon social. Analyze your Bluesky performance and optimize your posts. Get better
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TIL after 23 years of using macOS, I learnt that when clicking and dragging a rectangle to select multiple files, where you start matters. AMA. #buildinpublic
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Looked up tool to block sites to improve productivity. Willpower isn't helping much these days. #buildinpublic
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I like to use Codex to review Claude Code's work. I create a custom slash command and just type `/review-dirty`. Easy.
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Shucks. Didn't realize there was something stupid during my checkout process. Maybe I'd lost potential subscribers? #buildinpublic
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Floated a small idea on Reddit about a reMarkable → handwritten-notes extractor… and received more feedback than I usually get for TheBlue .social 😅 Funny how side ideas sometimes get the loudest reactions. #buildinpublic
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