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Trying to turn my personal data into a superpower || Dad x2 || Long suffering Spurs fan || Built the Mimoto app

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Good luck with the launch

06.09.2025 10:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Super cool 😲

02.09.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boom! Many congrats πŸ™Œ

02.09.2025 11:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also β€œis it compliment or complement?” 8 times πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

01.09.2025 11:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When exploring my Google Takeout data I discovered that I’ve searched β€œhow to reheat rice in the microwave” 11 times in 11 years… my brain refuses to commit the answer to memory

01.09.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

An excellent point - definitely overlooked.

31.08.2025 02:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Underrated aspect of having kids. When they use your YouTube profile to watch some vids, your subsequent recommendations for the next week are epic… worlds biggest container ships βœ…, triceratops vs 3 tyrannosaurus βœ…, paper aeroplane tutorials βœ…. Yes please!!

20.08.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super cool! Many congrats

20.08.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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09.08.2025 23:42 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Spot on

10.08.2025 01:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bet its memory usage is even worse

04.08.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a very fair point, the customer selection piece in particular resonates when operating within a niche, you definitely live with a concern around reputational risk and the idea that you need to get it right first time or you’ve blown your chance.

02.08.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Always wondered how to introduce and sign off the letter though β€œTo whom it may concern…”

02.08.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Always struggled with the β€œso ship today” one… maybe just war torn from the QA process and regression testing cycles

02.08.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, β€˜10’s called… they want their potential solution to the housing crisis back

02.08.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Massive shout out to the Lego product team on this one - what a line up!

02.08.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent. After his comedic performance in Extras, nobody is more deserving of the Frank Drebin role than Liam Neeson!

02.08.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

If [design] = [art] + [constraint], then

[strategy] = [business design] = [inspiration] + [constraint].

The decisions you make, both the + and - consequences of that, are the constraints.

These are often called enabling constraints.

Articulate, and embrace them. Here is how:

02.08.2025 09:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feel like the modern day version of this needs to account for the bots that make up 75% of the pile on

02.08.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are planning to release in Europe a big #AI model any time soon, today is an important day…

02.08.2025 08:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Zero ill feeling from the anyone at the club (I’d assume!) for him taking the decision. Forever a Spurs legend, and leaving on a high.

02.08.2025 10:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Obscure celebrity reference, I’m here for it!

02.08.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s 100% true

02.08.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this!

01.08.2025 11:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Max MRR: Your growth ceiling Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The β€œMax MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue.

Just published a new article! πŸ‘‡πŸΎ

Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The "Max MRR" metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue.

Many thanks for spreading the love with ❀️ and πŸ”!

27.07.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You, me and ChatGPT | The Observer We're using AI in the most unexpected ways. But do its answers raise even bigger questions?

Cool to see Mimoto featured in the Observer this week.

Just a few scrolls down from the guy using ChatGPT for, er… size advice.

Not quite the context I imagined, but hey - all publicity, right? πŸ˜…

observer.co.uk/style/featur...

20.07.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

2018: β€œOur token will revolutionize food distribution in post-conflict regions. Here’s our white paper.”

2025: β€œIt’s a dog. On fire. With sunglasses.”

Send ETH.

19.07.2025 02:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha nice work, enjoyed it!! Feel there’s probably a Christmas cracker sequel option for this.

17.07.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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u/davidlover β€’ 2d
Why does Al complicate things so much?
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I am currently using Claude Code to help me develop a mobile app (I have no swift experience) while I handle the backend. Every time I ask it to build me a new feature with plan mode, it comes up with an elaborate scheme that involves re-writing things, building new views, models, etc.
Even without knowing swift / Apple development, I can see that half the stuff it is proposing is unnecessarily complex.
For example, I am currently implementing pagination for data in the analytics page of my app. I say:
"The skeleton animation works good on the page when awaiting the initial data fetch, but for pagination it just deletes the info cards and then replaces them with the new data (looks bad). I just want to have the existing skeletons show up for that async fetch period"
To this Claude tried to get a pagination manager with an integrated date period and search function that also manages the loading state and animations. All it needed to do was reuse the existing code it wrote that manages the skeletons animations and have them display during the fetch.
This happens so much it is frustrating (even after adding multiple lines in claude.md about overcomplication).

r/vibecoding u/davidlover β€’ 2d Why does Al complicate things so much? Join I am currently using Claude Code to help me develop a mobile app (I have no swift experience) while I handle the backend. Every time I ask it to build me a new feature with plan mode, it comes up with an elaborate scheme that involves re-writing things, building new views, models, etc. Even without knowing swift / Apple development, I can see that half the stuff it is proposing is unnecessarily complex. For example, I am currently implementing pagination for data in the analytics page of my app. I say: "The skeleton animation works good on the page when awaiting the initial data fetch, but for pagination it just deletes the info cards and then replaces them with the new data (looks bad). I just want to have the existing skeletons show up for that async fetch period" To this Claude tried to get a pagination manager with an integrated date period and search function that also manages the loading state and animations. All it needed to do was reuse the existing code it wrote that manages the skeletons animations and have them display during the fetch. This happens so much it is frustrating (even after adding multiple lines in claude.md about overcomplication).

You're so close dude. You are nearly there

13.07.2025 02:56 πŸ‘ 1324 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 6
Context engineering The term context engineering has recently started to gain traction as a better alternative to prompt engineering. I like it. I think this one may have sticking power. Here's an …

I think "context engineering" is going to stick - unlike "prompt engineering" it has an inferred definition that's much closer to the intended meaning, which is to carefully and skillfully construct the right context to get great results from LLMs simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/...

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