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AI. Automation. Build Things. No-code to Dev.

Truckee, CA
Joined July 2010
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Free forever in Fair Prompter: mirror mode, recording, saving to your gallery. No watermark. No account. No tracking. Pro is a one-time payment, no subscription. Why do so many basic tools charge monthly?
Glizzy Tracker is simple: log a hot dog, add a photo, rate it. Then there are leaderboards, clans and a map of nearby spots. A tracker is a diary. A leaderboard is a reason to come back. What would you track if it had a leaderboard?
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I added a new account in ClaudeDeck, our menu bar app, then tried to switch to it. The app said yes. The terminal said that account doesn't exist. Two parts kept separate copies of the list. Now there is one, read fresh every time. Ever had two copies of the truth?
Most teleprompters scroll at one speed. You rush or you wait. Fair Prompter Pro follows your voice instead. You speak, it scrolls. You pause, it waits. Works offline, in 6 languages. Do you read from a script or wing it?
We built our own notes tool, CRM and accounting app for Fleet. Then we asked what we are really selling. Not the copies. Nobody switches to a copy. It is seeing every change the AI made, and being able to undo it. Would you let an AI touch your books without an undo button?
I built a menu bar app so I would never hit my AI usage limits. The app hit the limits. It checked every 2 minutes, like a coworker asking "is it done yet?" Now it reads the answer off open sessions. An idle account went from 30+ checks an hour to 2. Ever caused your own bug?
Me: we did all this yesterday. Why are we doing it again? My assistant: because I never wrote down how it ended. Fair. Now every setup ends with a note: what worked, what didn't, what's left. It reads that first next time. Do you write down how things end?
I moved my whole Notion into a workspace we built for our AI agents. 51 pages, 16 databases, 442 rows. First try lost 80 things on the way. After the fixes, 5. What would you check before trusting a move like that?
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A friend opened Fleet on a brand new Mac and hit a wall before the first screen. It made them download about 30 minutes of Apple tools first. So we put those tools inside the app. Now you open it and setup starts. What's the first wall your users hit?
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"Failed." That was the whole text my assistant sent after it tried to book something for me. I told it that's not an answer. Now it says why. This time: the opening was already gone. What do you want your assistant to say when it misses?
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Rule for any AI that can act for you: anything permanent needs two yeses. My assistant found 43 duplicates, listed every one, got my yes, then asked again before deleting. Slower. Much safer. That's how Fleet works. Would you want your assistant to ask twice?
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My analytics said 11 people used Glizzy Tracker each month. The database said 51. The first screen sent its event before the app knew who you were, so it got thrown away. And there was no "app opened" event. What number about your work have you never checked?
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Never let software say "done" before it checks. Fleet, our AI assistant for a spare Mac, told a new user "You're paired!" while its first text never arrived. Now it says paired only after the hello goes through. What's the last thing that said "done" and wasn't?
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A teleprompter shouldn't charge you to flip the mirror. Fair Prompter doesn't. Mirror, recording and saving to your gallery are free forever. No watermark, no account, no tracking. What's one feature you'd never pay for?
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Going to be posting here a lot more. My partner Roméo and I build one app a month. The first, Fair Prompter, is a teleprompter that doesn't charge you for the mirror. It's live on Android now. I'll share what works and what breaks along the way.
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Reasoning models = APIs for cognitive automation.
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This is getting nuts!
Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) F**K man it looks like software developers have one more less job now. Claude desktop can now connect directly to GitHub, create a new repo, and make a PR. More details 👇 📹 via alexalbert__
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Thinking of building a @fathom vector db and rag bot for insights. Thoughts?
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Asked ChatGPT “Based on what you know of me draw a picture of what you think my life currently looks like”
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