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Ion Alpha

@ionalpha_

Contracting in dev for 15 years, now experimenting with a hub of integrated tools to help developers research, build and grow MVPs.

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If you want ideas change your mindset from problem solving to problem seeking. Look for problems everywhere, what are the most painful ones? Which ones are people paying to solve? You'll have so many ideas you won't know what to do with them.

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mailto:… is the ultimate MVP hack 🤓 Every feature that is not the core differentiated value of the MVP, I'll add a mailto: link with pre-populated message (with user ID, context data, etc.) User clicks the button → Send → I do it manually & implement when too many requests.

mailto:… is the ultimate MVP hack 🤓

Every feature that is not the core differentiated value of the MVP, I'll add a mailto: link with pre-populated message (with user ID, context data, etc.)

User clicks the button → Send → I do it manually & implement when too many requests.
Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Someone just asked me how to deal with burnout as an entrepreneur who is trying to figure things out. Here are my thoughts on the issue — and I would very much appreciate your opinions here, too!

Someone just asked me how to deal with burnout as an entrepreneur who is trying to figure things out.

Here are my thoughts on the issue — and I would very much appreciate your opinions here, too!
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From a piece of WIP content: "Failure is pain. Leaning into pain is how you grow. Fail fast and fail often. Embrace it, celebrate it, let it change you for the better; help you to become more courageous, resilient and determined."

Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Building a business is a progression, often involving making significant changes in your life. There are several ways to finance this journey: moonlighting, going part-time, freelancing or consulting, and productized services. And then some. More: thebootstrappedfounder.com/paying-the-bil…

Building a business is a progression, often involving making significant changes in your life. There are several ways to finance this journey: moonlighting, going part-time, freelancing or consulting, and productized services. And then some.

More:
thebootstrappedfounder.com/paying-the-bil…
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Customer support pro tip - Use Bento to trigger an automatic email once a user hits a particular error more than once. I set this up for SleepHQ users who fail importing data twice in a row. The email includes common mistakes and links to YouTube tutorial videos that solve 90%

Customer support pro tip - Use <a href="/Bento/">Bento</a> to trigger an automatic email once a user hits a particular error more than once.
I set this up for SleepHQ users who fail importing data twice in a row. The email includes common mistakes and links to YouTube tutorial videos that solve 90%
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Wanna build authority without sounding like a scammy guru? Change these 3 mindsets: • Here’s how this works → Here’s what worked for me • Here’s how to do it → Here’s how I did it • The best way → My way You can't argue against personal experience.

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I've spent a few hours going through hundreds of Twitter timelines to find #buildinpublic people consistently posting about their products vs content/threads/personal/retweets. It was surprisingly difficult to find these accounts. Suggestions welcome! x.com/i/lists/161198…

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If the computer you're on right now would burst into flames, would you be able to: - keep running your business - recover all your data - set up a new computer ...in less than a day? In short: how good is your backup strategy?

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Rough example of Claude Code controlling the embedded browser. This is a big advantage over browser extensions as this is directly integrated with the rest of the system. Uses simplified annotated DOM to avoid dumping loads of context into the AI for decisions. Just a POC.

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My Unreal Engine game built with this system :) (450k lines of code so far!) I should probably go back to that and get it released, seems much more captivating than what I'm promoting here. Doubt very much I'll get any traction any time soon without promoted posts.

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Another thing I built with the system, audio visualizer that AI can write scripts for. Uses Three.js and GSAP. Not really commercial, maybe VJs would be interested. This is just a hacked together viz, hope to get time to do something decent with it to show it off better.