KingOfMyRoom

The main issue I have is how they nerf their models and the quality difference between API users and their subscribers.

Do you have any links that would explain this?

I'm looking at changing my AI harness and am definitely interested in this

Anything you can share about this time?

Would you qualify this as buying votes? Is it even legal?

I tend to agree. I think music can help prolong the state. It helps to keep on grinding.

You said you miss that state a lot. What changed? Is it related to using AI more when coding or something else?

I’m not a programmer, life choices took me in another direction, but I’m starting to understand the addictive part of building things and immediately seeing them come to life.

With AI coding it suddenly feels like there are so many possibilities. My biggest problem now is almost the opposite: trying not to chase every idea and keeping myself focused on building one thing. There’s definitely a dopamine hit in seeing visible progress regularly :)

That makes sense. I wonder how much the sound itself matters versus it simply becoming part of the ritual that tells your brain "now we’re working"

I used to listen to classical music, rap or hip hop, but lately I’ve moved toward those long focus playlists on YouTube and things like Brain.fm. They seem to help me, so I was curious whether other people deliberately use something to get into that state or whether it just happens through the work itself.

What do you use to be in the zone? music in the background? What type? Or silence or something else?

Sorry you’re going through this, that sounds brutal. You mentioned an abusive childhood making things worse; if you’re open to sharing, has anything in therapy (trauma-informed work, CBT, EMDR, etc.) actually helped?

Do you have any take on non-med things like mindfulness/yoga nidra or gentle ambient sound at night? I’m on the fence about starting meditation myself and curious what’s been useful, or not, for you.

And if meds are what’s giving you relief right now, I’m glad you’ve found something that helps.

That’s a good advice, thank you!

I already have a feature list and a basic PRD, and I’m working through the main wireframes right now.

What I’m still figuring out is the planning and architecture side, how to go from that high-level outline to a solid structure for the app. I’d rather move step by step, testing things gradually, than get buried under too much code where I don’t understand anything.

I’m even considering taking a few React courses along the way just to get a better grasp of what’s happening under the hood.

Do you know of any good resources or examples that could help guide this kind of approach? On how to break this down, what documents to have?

Ideally, I want this to grow into a proper startup. I’m starting solo for now, but as things progress, I’d like to bring in more people. I’m not a tech, product or design person, but AI gives me hope that I can at least get an MVP out and onboard a few early users.

For auth, I’ll be using Supabase, and for the MVP stage I think Lovable should be good enough to build and test with maybe a few hundred users. If there’s traction and things start working, that’s when I’d plan to harden the stack and get proper security and code reviews in place.

Thanks a lot for all the pointers.

I’m not 100% set on Lovable yet. Right now I’m using Stitch AI to build out the wireframes. The main reason I was leaning toward Lovable is that it seems pretty good at UI design and layout.

How does Claude do on that front? Can it handle good UI structure or does it usually need some help from a design tool?

Also, is it possible to get mobile apps out of a Next.js setup?

My thought was to start with the web version, and later maybe wrap it using Cordova (or Capacitor) like I did years ago with Ionic to get Android/iOS versions. Just wondering if that’s still a sensible path today.

That makes sense, I can see how once things get complex or novel, the LLMs start to struggle. I don't think my app is doing anything complex.

For now, my MVP is pretty simple: a small app for people to listen to soundscapes for focus and relaxation. Even if no one uses, at least it's going to be useful to me and it will be a fun experiment!

I’m thinking of starting with React + Supabase (through Lovable), that should cover most of what I need early on. Once it’s out of the survival stage, I’ll look into adding more complex functionality.

Curious, in your experience, what’s the best way to keep things reliable when starting simple like this? And are there any good resources you can point to?

You have a great way of demystifying things. Thanks for the insights here!

Do you think a non-programmer could realistically build a full app using vibe coding?

What fundamentals would you say are essential to understand first?

For context, I’m in finance, but about 8 years ago I built a full app with Angular/Ionic (live on Play Store, under review on Apple Store at that time) after doing a Coursera specialization. That was my first startup attempt, I haven’t coded since.

My current idea is to combine ChatGPT prompts with Lovable to get something built, then fine-tune and iterate using Roo Code (VS plugin).

I’d love to try again with vibe coding. Any resources or directions you’d recommend?

The Martian

I love it. It's about doing the impossible, one step at a time

> We are posting on a website run by a venture capital firm, maybe you can explain why the market is not relevant here.

Such a cynical world view. At least Don Quixote was fighting for a good cause.

Now that's a sad future we're heading off too.

I am unsure of what to think of this. It sickens me. In Scotland, Amazon workers chose to sleep in tents near the warehouse. In the depths of winter.

1) Workers in the warehouse at Amazon are in pretty bad conditions but how does this compare to working in a warehouse in other companies? Not sure if things are rosy elsewhere

2) What I fear is the growth and normalization of this behaviour in the future. Crappy jobs and child labour were acceptable during the Industrial Revolution, it was always better then no job in the rural area. But now it feels like a step backwards. In the information age, when tech giants are changing/destroying entire industries to create this new (great?) future?

3) And then, what happens when delivery drivers are replaced by drones and autonomous car makes car ownership irrelevant? Cloud subscription has made hardware servers irrelevant. Will we have car subscription to Google, Tesla and Uber? How will we earn money to pay for those subscriptions and buy on Amazon?

:?

Why not look at Wikipedia and see how they are tackling controversial topics? Here it sounds like a disappointing ostrich experiment. Let's bury our head in sand, let the storm pass away and see what happens.

I think it's a good think that people are indignant on both side. Let's organise ourself. We have the tools, the concepts, the technology. I am sure it's possible to find some common ground and have some data-driven debates/discussions and form some more balance opinions/belief.

I have been using Firebase for two months now and it is a total nightmare to me. The support is awful.

1) I don't get answers on Stackoverflow.

2) I have stopped using your slack as it's close to impossible to get any answer. It's a complete joke.

3) When I tried to google, I often end up getting the legacy documents which are deprecated

4) There are too many breaking changes between your different versions. This makes it so confusing to use angularfire/firebase and finding deprecated code examples.

5) The youtube videos feels like a huge marketing stunts and you are all busy trying to promote an ever changing/incomplete firebase. 10 month old videos are no longer valid because of breaking changes.

6) The security rules difference between firebase storage & firebase database

7) Querying being such a huge pain. There was an effort made in a 2014 blog post but obviously code is obsolete.

I know in the end. It must be the developer's fault who’s not smart enough for firebase maybe.