Abhishek from Youform
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Building an affordable Typeform alternative @youformdotcom and tweeting about the learnings while bootstrapping it to 100,000 users.
It's free. Try here 👉🏻
Joined November 2019
I was using an extension called Image Info for years, but today I found that Chrome removed it because it contained some malware. So I white-coded it using Cloud Code in 30 minutes. Submitted it to the Google Chrome Web Store without writing a single line of code.
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The passport portal built by @TCS is a $1Bn project and couldn't deliver OTP on time. Waiting for the last 2 days to login and getting OTP SMS after 8-10 hours!
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Ok cool it wasn’t just me. Going back to sleep call me when CC is back 😂.
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My Claude Code on terminal randomly pausing without any error or anything. Anyone else facing the same?.
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Guys no matter if you are working alone, always write meaningful git commits. - From someone who spent 20 minutes today to find a git commit because most of the commits were "minor fix" 🙃.
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Ok another tip: if you are afraid that this will break your production, you can conditionally prevent lazy loading in non-production environments and always log if this violation has been made, so that you can fix those. Laravel is crazy!
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TIL you can prevent lazy loading in your Laravel app by adding this line in your AppServiceProvider. Pro tip: Just test your app thoroughly before going to production.
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That’s why you should never do an operation heavy, category creation startup in bootstrapped mode. Bootstrapping is best for cases like SaaS especially with existing proven market. But good luck creating the next Uber without deep pockets VC money.
update: we are shutting down after building for over a year, we have finally called it a day. while we continue to believe in this space, bootstrapping the business with limited capital made it extremely difficult for us to participate in the market.
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These researchers don’t know I shipped 10 features in the last 7 days thanks to AI tools.
Okay this is pretty wild: . "When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed.
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No need to comment lol it's just Claude Code with Github action:
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Learn about integrating Claude Code into your development workflow with Claude Code GitHub Actions
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We hired a software dev last week on a monthly salary of just $100 and he churned out 10 features in last 7 days. These feature requests were pending in Youform since last several months!. Want to know how to hire such a dev? Comment "$100 dev" and I will DM you their profile.
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Does ChatGPT uses Google search? I asked it what did it use and it changed answer from:."I searched across the top-ranking and reputable sources" .to "I essentially performed a Google-style web search" .to "Yes, you're absolutely right — I searched directly in Google".
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We use Mailgun in Youform and was wondering what will happen if someday it stops working (like they are down or block us etc.). So I was planning to add a way to detect this and auto switch email provider. Turns out, Laravel has built in support for this. Just add your providers
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Day 2 of using Claude Code with Github Actions and I have already merged 3 pull requests it created. These small feature requests were pending in Youform since last several months and I wasn't picking them because. they were BORING. Now I can give them to Claude Code and then
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Merged the branch and informed the user. He stayed. Worth $0.9 spent ever!.
HOLY SHIT!!. So a customer asked a feature which is on pipeline and scheduled to launch end of this month. I told the same to the customer but they said they need it urgently and set their subscription to cancel. I had other tasks to finish so opened an issue in my Youform
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AWS pricing is so ridiculous. I have been using AWS for more than 12 years now and knew that Elastic IPs, ONLY if not used, are charged. Turns out they recently changed their policy and charge in-use IPv4 addresses as well. Today I checked my bill and found that we got charged
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