🚀 Building in public #1 – My first user interview

I just did my first user interview! Why?

Before coding, I need to know:
1️⃣ Does the problem exist?
2️⃣ Is it worth solving?

📆 Next interview next week! Have you done one? 👇

2024 Christmas Eve will be my first one with my dad since 2012.

I moved to France in 2013 for my studies, and traveling back to Madagascar during the winter holidays has always been too expensive. This year feels extra special. 🎄✨

Can't wait for the time I'll celebrate it with both my parents

Just tried adding newsletter aggregation to my read-it-later app and checked Resend for receiving emails.

Setup seemed easy, until I realised they don’t support receiving emails. 🤦‍♂️ Bruh, guess I need another solution. This is such a bummer!

Interesting read on the good and bad use cases for AI: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/15-times-t...

I added a quick summary feature to my read-it-later app! But I’m still figuring out how to craft the perfect prompt to summarize articles on any topic. Suggestions welcome! cosyreader.com

#ai

I love coding, but I have to admit—it can be exhausting. Spending the entire day meticulously crafting code for my 9-to-5 job often leaves me with little mental energy for my side projects.

Today is the last day of Fêtes des lumières

This article resonates with my own day-to-day experience with gen AI. I get better at prompting it just by using it. Overtime, I build the intuition of what works and what doesn't, without the need to specifically learn prompting techniques.

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...

Troy Hunt, the creator of haveibeenpwned.com released a book called Pwned. It's a sort of behind the scenes book. And it's free, awesome.

Another awesome book on my backlog 😎

www.troyhunt.com/pwned-the-bo...

I have a growing interest in using Elixir / Phoenix for my backend instead of Supabase. I really like Ecto.

But I feel that it won't be a good idea as I am not very proficient yet in Elixir compared to Javascript. Maybe I'll give it a shot on another of my future projects.

As a developer spending so much of my damn time at a desk, going to the gym at least 2 times a week help me so much. Not just for my physical health but I also find myself more stable emotionally.

Go to the gym folks, or do whatever physical activity you like

I use Supabase for cosyreader.com, and while it's generally fantastic, working with the local instance can sometimes feel unpredictable. For example, resetting the database occasionally results in errors that are difficult to debug, leaving me feeling a bit out of control

When building a product while having a 9 - 5 job is hard but you’re just a chill guy enjoying the process

#indiehackers

So i am building a rss manager with an in app reader. It really is a prototype for now (like I don’t even have a custom domain name)

You can check it at cosy-reader.vercel.app/sign-up

I find Radix UI a solid alternative to Shadcn

Even though Radix does not have a lot of components as Shadcn, it’s easy to integrate other headless components using the variables included in Radix UI

www.radix-ui.com

Who still uses RSS in 2024 ?

Here are some my favorite ones

- Ars Technica The Scientific method feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/...
- Nature
- Developpez.com (in french)