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Micky Thompson

@mickythompson

I am a Vibe Coding Entrepreneur! Built/sold 3 online startups. Coding my 4th venture & sharing lessons learned. Follow for insights on Tech & Entrepreneurship!

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Client: When should we consider switching email vendors? Me: Never! Also, me: Postmark sandbox feature down. Immediately building API integration with Mailtrap after I got four replies from ActiveCampaign trying to close the ticket without investigating the issue.

Client: When should we consider switching email vendors?
Me: Never!

Also, me: <a href="/postmarkapp/">Postmark</a> sandbox feature down. Immediately building API integration with <a href="/Mailtrap/">Mailtrap</a> after I got four replies from <a href="/ActiveCampaign/">ActiveCampaign</a> trying to close the ticket without investigating the issue.
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I’ve personally shipped 5,000+ code commits in the last 12 months—thanks to major AI retooling! Having hired 71 devs who logged 218k+ hours, I can say for sure: AI-assisted coding is the future.

I’ve personally shipped 5,000+ code commits in the last 12 months—thanks to major AI retooling! Having hired 71 devs who logged 218k+ hours, I can say for sure: AI-assisted coding is the future.
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We're building cross-platform apps with AI and learned: AI thinks in single platforms. Lost 20+ commits when AI "simplified" our Desktop navigation (app://-/page.html → /page). To AI, it looked unnecessary. Now we use microservices + docs to protect these patterns. Like noting

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People don't care about my tech stack. They care if it feels good to use. This screenshot shows the same page. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) of 0 = smooth loading. CLS of 0.74 = buttons jump as you click them. People don't complain about poor performance. They just leave.

People don't care about my tech stack. They care if it feels good to use.

This screenshot shows the same page. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) of 0 = smooth loading. CLS of 0.74 = buttons jump as you click them.

People don't complain about poor performance. They just leave.
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"When you know the answer at build time, don't ask the question at runtime!" - Micky Thompson chatting with AI When developing cross-platform apps, AI often relies on if/then statements to identify the runtime environment. In cross-platform development, we know the device +

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TypeScript for the win! 🏆 Today, released its TypeScript Software Development Kit (SDK) before releasing its Python SDK. They must have seen GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report showing that TypeScript passed Python to become the most-used programming language on

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dax Having raised VC funding for a previous venture, much of the self-promotion and PR that start-ups do appeals to investors, VCs, and early adopters. Others who aren’t raising VC funding do it because they are copying those who do. I’m sure a psychologist could analyze why some

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Just invented one of my favorite AI coding prompts I'm calling it 'The 3 R's' Step 1: Take a traditional user story: As a <type of user>, I want <some goal or feature> so that <some reason or benefit> Step 2: Add the instructions: Review, research, and report 🤯