Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar
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Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar
@hboon.com
Programmed for 30yr. SaaS growth lessons + experiments, and behind-the-scenes.

Full-time indie building @theblue.social.

Code reviews at https://codevetta.com

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New look. old vs. new.

Change the hierarchy for both pre and post-logged in pages

Better?

#buildinpublic
January 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM
January 2, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Even if you are a die-hard Claude Code fan, do this:

/review-dirty
January 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM
TheBlue.social has:

323,368 clean ups

201,799 follow backs

22,984 alt text generations

87,624 starter packs indexed

82.7 average posts per user

going to keep shipping

#buildinpublic
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Looks decent? #buildinpublic
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The site is bad. But I wasn't expecting 54 🙀
December 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The horror, because you can't recover from it
December 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
They don't give up looking for Christmas gifts
December 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Is this new?
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
TheBlue.social has:

323,204 clean ups

201,305 follow backs

22,953 alt text generations

86,252 starter packs indexed

82.7 average posts per user

going to keep shipping

#buildinpublic
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
When you self-host, you can see them keep coming at you #buildinpublic
December 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
😱 can't block IPs with Render #buildinpublic
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Happy users like Bluesky Wrap 2025.
December 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Getting a new, raw project up (minus the infra) is the easy part #buildinpublic
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Good to see people finding Wrap 2025 useful #buildinpublic
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Nasty
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 AM
B does more for my business than A:

#buildinpublic
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Not-a bootstrapped indie detector built into BetterStack #buildinpublic
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
So far, @theblue.social has done:

322,871 clean ups

200,432 follow backs

22,890 alt text generations

86,252 starter packs indexed

82.7 average posts per user

going to keep shipping

#buildinpublic
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What. Claude Code guess passes?

NFT is coming next 🤣
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I like iterating on UI components in Storybook.

One advantage being I can see how things look in light and dark theme at the same time. I often forget to check otherwise.
December 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Amazon too?
December 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Healthy main character energy
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Being an indie bootstrapper means I am constantly fighting against time. But I still take the chance to improve the UX of my products (sometimes!). I added this a while back so the user can verify for themselves that the image/URL is available. #buildinpublic
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This is cool. But instead of breaking thinking mode, they shipped this.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM