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· Software entrepreneur, freelancer. iOS/Android/React Native. · Building awesome apps and freelancing for awesome people.

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Nick Bonatsakis
4 days
Every time I get bit by an LLM it's because I stopped using my brain. It's such an easy trap to fall into, especially when these things are so incredibly good at tricking you into believing they are 100% competent at everything.
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@GergelyOrosz
Gergely Orosz
9 days
@zeeg It's always been like this Most engineers believe what they see, and what works today Those who are not engineers eat up the hype/projections And then we have investors hyping up investments, influencers realizing they need hyperbolic takes to get traction so they do that. And
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Nick Bonatsakis
9 days
Absolutely nobody should expect to make any money with this low effort nonsense.
@JorgeCastilloPr
Jorge Castillo
10 days
You might save some work in your next project with this one 👇 A Claude Code skill that researches the App Store, finds underserved niches, writes a full PRD, and builds a working prototype in Rork. https://t.co/qkS1qZXUCw
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Nick Bonatsakis
11 days
Why is CBS Sports the default bracket website for March Madness? It's a horrible, cluttered mess of a UI, and the fact that this site most of us log into once a year doesn't have a gigantic "FILL OUT YOUR BRACKET HERE" button on the home page is absolutely criminal.
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Nick Bonatsakis
14 days
What does it say about QuickBooks Online that I finally find it usable because I'm interacting with it fully through Claude Code? It's pretty bad that I have to burn down the equivalent of an entire forrest in token/energy cost to get my taxes done.
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Nick Bonatsakis
14 days
I think it's pretty clear that App Review is bogged down right now and I don't know if Apple is even trying to solve it. I remember the dark days of 1 week+ review times being standard and it seems we're almost back to that. At risk of being accused of "gate keeping" I fully
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Nick Bonatsakis
14 days
And this is why Reddit is now an absolute dumpster fire with respect to actually trying to find good advice on products. It's all people schlepping their Chinese drop-ship crap or stupid habit tracker app, or info product, or whatever. This scheme may work now, but I think we
@levikov
69kov
15 days
Google now surfaces Reddit threads above brand websites for 80%+ of product searches and there's a guy in my network who reverse-engineered how to own page one for any product keyword using nothing but fake customer stories… He doesn't sell anything directly. He writes "honest
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Nick Bonatsakis
15 days
It's 2026 and AI enables my 7/yo's science project to be building the Mario64 PC Decomp project from source and modding it.
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Nick Bonatsakis
15 days
It's crazy how much Agentic AI has lowered the barrier on enabling something cool via "stupid bullshit tasks". Example: I want Google Analytics MCP. Well, it requires like 20 stupid bullshit tasks because Google's access model is a convoluted dumpster fire. CC lives to
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Nick Bonatsakis
15 days
Tried something new for an app I have in review right now. Found a vetted use-case, had AI research the general requirements / pain points, and designed my take from scratch, without looking at the other apps in the category. Why did I do this? Because I think I have a good
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Nick Bonatsakis
16 days
We are currently in the terminal+emacs era of agentic engineering. CLI was the sensible place to start because the target audience is programmers, but I think we will ultimately evolve towards something more analogous to an IDE.
@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
16 days
Expectation: the age of the IDE is over Reality: we’re going to need a bigger IDE (imo). It just looks very different because humans now move upwards and program at a higher level - the basic unit of interest is not one file but one agent. It’s still programming.
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Nick Bonatsakis
17 days
It's starting to feel like we are self-quantizing knowledge more so than ever before. Ai is "summarizing" everything, just get the most important nuggets and move on. But it dawned on me today that I am reading long form content less and less. I'm worried that we are about to
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Nick Bonatsakis
17 days
If you don't feel terrified you missed something, or something is broken when shipping a product for the first time, you waited too long.
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Nick Bonatsakis
17 days
Accessibility isn't really covered in mainstream AI discussions but damn is it going to be hugely impacted. The web is a complicated, sloppy experience. When an agent can deal with that on your behalf, damn is that useful as a visually impaired person. No matter how
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Nick Bonatsakis
18 days
If you watch a computer-use agent as it works, you'll notice it's very similar to an early Rumba. It bounces around, somewhat aimlessly until ultimately brute-force achieving the goal you gave it (most of the time). I'm not really trying to make a point, just an observation. It
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Nick Bonatsakis
21 days
Unfortunately the same can't be said about actual visionPro units.
@JordanKutzer
Jordan Kutzer
21 days
We're seeing more Apple Vision Pro apps shipping because AI makes software exploration viable and way less expensive.
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Nick Bonatsakis
21 days
I don't know who needs to hear this, but this site is turning into a "get rich quick" scheme slop engagement farm.
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Nick Bonatsakis
21 days
If only I hadn't seen this same nonsense 17x/day here, on Reddit, etc. I wonder why, if this were such a lucrative approach, these folks aren't just quietly doing it and printing money?
@naruto11eth
Naruto11.eth
22 days
earning at least 20k/month idea with claude code: > find small businesses in your neighberhood > for eg, food places or bars or clubs in austin, tx > go on their website and check how is it and what's going on > use @figma / @canva mcps to build great UI designs > use
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Nick Bonatsakis
21 days
Back in my day we used to call this an "ad".
@levikov
69kov
21 days
The creator economy is going through a split right now that most people don't see. Personal brands are getting more expensive and harder to grow. Faceless accounts are getting cheaper and easier to scale. The gap between the two is widening every month and the smart money is
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Nick Bonatsakis
21 days
This actually is BS (and also AI-written). You can do everything perfectly and still wit for days, especially on a net-new app submission.
@WasimShips
Wasim
22 days
This reddit post blew up because a dev got their iOS app approved in just 7 minutes. bookmark this if you're shipping iOS apps : 1/ App Store Connect Setup Developer account fully verified Tax and banking details 100% complete All agreements signed App ID matches bundle
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