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Alexander Ershov

@a_v_ershov

Building viralclips.video former ML engineer and software developer.

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Fighting Guilt, Burnout, and Doubt as a Solo Founder When building your own products, at first, nothing seems to work, and most of your efforts don’t yield any results. For a long time, this made me feel guilty, thinking I was doing something “useless” and that I’d be better off

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Vibe coding is good for health My current working style is: I ask Claude in VS Code to edit my code and then wait several minutes for the changes to be generated. While I’m waiting, I constantly stroll back and forth in my room 😅

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How I Validate Ideas Previously, when launching projects, I'd follow the classic startup playbook: "Let's do customer development! Let's find some problems through user interviews!" Meanwhile, we'd be coding something in parallel. Ultimately, this led us to launch something—only

How I Validate Ideas

Previously, when launching projects, I'd follow the classic startup playbook: "Let's do customer development! Let's find some problems through user interviews!" Meanwhile, we'd be coding something in parallel. Ultimately, this led us to launch something—only
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I hadn’t checked on my extensions in a couple of months, and turns out one of them already hit a thousand users. Not a huge number, but still — a small win!

I hadn’t checked on my extensions in a couple of months, and turns out one of them already hit a thousand users. Not a huge number, but still — a small win!
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I’m testing Google Search Ads for my service, and all the clicks cost more than a dollar. How can I make a product that’s priced at $10–15 profitable if just getting a sign up costs ~ $5, and at most 10% of those actually convert to paying customers?

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YouTube Music has the best recommendation system. Somehow, it recommends tracks I used to listen to when I was a teen. It’s really funny, since I haven’t listened to them in more than 10 years, and now I have all of them— a day of nostalgia.

YouTube Music has the best recommendation system. Somehow, it recommends tracks I used to listen to when I was a teen. It’s really funny, since I haven’t listened to them in more than 10 years, and now I have all of them—
a day of nostalgia.
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Which React framework and UI components should a solo developer choose for a SaaS project? I’m currently working on the frontend for my project, and I’ve chosen React, Next.js, Tailwind, and DaisyUI. However, there’s an issue with Next.js: when I deploy it to AWS (Amplify), the

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Google released real-world generative AI use cases from different companies. Might be useful for anyone looking for a new idea. cloud.google.com/transform/101-…

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Looks like ChatGPT is the slowest LLM app I use now. Pretty often, requests time out. So, it's time to switch. For coding, I'm switching to Gemini 2.5 pro For general tasks, I'm switching to Grok 3

Looks like ChatGPT is the slowest LLM app I use now. Pretty often, requests time out.
So, it's time to switch.
For coding, I'm switching to Gemini 2.5 pro
For general tasks, I'm switching to Grok 3