Sid
@thefossrant.com
building SnapStock - smart inventory management solution
📚 high school student
📚 high school student
After disabling AI assistance in my code editor for a day, I realized that AI actually makes me less productive. Although it feels like you are coding really fast with AI, it causes you to spend way more time debugging code that you may not fully understand because you didn't write all of it.
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 PM
After disabling AI assistance in my code editor for a day, I realized that AI actually makes me less productive. Although it feels like you are coding really fast with AI, it causes you to spend way more time debugging code that you may not fully understand because you didn't write all of it.
I finally finished migrating SnapStock from Supabase to Postgres. It was a painful process because of the entire web app being designed around Supabase. After the migration, our database latencies went from up to 2 seconds down to under 100ms. #buildinpublic
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I finally finished migrating SnapStock from Supabase to Postgres. It was a painful process because of the entire web app being designed around Supabase. After the migration, our database latencies went from up to 2 seconds down to under 100ms. #buildinpublic
Day 52 of #buildinpublic: Tomorrow is the day that we will be onboarding our first beta tester! I managed to get all of our code deployed to the cloud. There were a few issues but I managed to fix them all. Stay tuned for more updates.
snapstock.io
snapstock.io
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Day 52 of #buildinpublic: Tomorrow is the day that we will be onboarding our first beta tester! I managed to get all of our code deployed to the cloud. There were a few issues but I managed to fix them all. Stay tuned for more updates.
snapstock.io
snapstock.io
Day 45 #buildinpublic: The basic features of the app are FINALLY near completion. We are making preparations to onboard our first beta tester sometime next week. It is going to be a challenge since this is the first app I made that requires multiple components to be deployed separately.
December 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Day 45 #buildinpublic: The basic features of the app are FINALLY near completion. We are making preparations to onboard our first beta tester sometime next week. It is going to be a challenge since this is the first app I made that requires multiple components to be deployed separately.
Day 36 of building my startup: I finally got one portion of the main feature accurate enough to use. The next few steps should be a lot simpler.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Day 36 of building my startup: I finally got one portion of the main feature accurate enough to use. The next few steps should be a lot simpler.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
SnapStock
Parts tracking built for FIRST Robotics teams
snapstock.github.io
December 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Day 29 of building my startup: after many failures, we have decided to change our approach to training our image detection model. I’m hoping to make an accurate model before the end of the year.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Day 29 of building my startup: after many failures, we have decided to change our approach to training our image detection model. I’m hoping to make an accurate model before the end of the year.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Day 27 of building my startup: I made the decision to pivot to just serving FRC robotics teams. My friend and I realized that it would be much simpler if we just start by offering the product to a specific group of people.
I'm probably going to allow waitlist signups this Wednesday.
#buildinpublic
I'm probably going to allow waitlist signups this Wednesday.
#buildinpublic
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Day 27 of building my startup: I made the decision to pivot to just serving FRC robotics teams. My friend and I realized that it would be much simpler if we just start by offering the product to a specific group of people.
I'm probably going to allow waitlist signups this Wednesday.
#buildinpublic
I'm probably going to allow waitlist signups this Wednesday.
#buildinpublic
Day 17 of building my startup: I now have a somewhat functioning app (with a terrible UI). In the next 2 or 3 weeks i’m gonna allow people to join the waitlist for beta testing. Progress is being made very fast!
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Day 17 of building my startup: I now have a somewhat functioning app (with a terrible UI). In the next 2 or 3 weeks i’m gonna allow people to join the waitlist for beta testing. Progress is being made very fast!
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Day 15 of building my startup: my friend built a new AI model that is way more accurate at detecting objects. I am now working on UI and backend stuff to turn this into a usable app. We are probably going to have our first functioning version done sometime this week.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Day 15 of building my startup: my friend built a new AI model that is way more accurate at detecting objects. I am now working on UI and backend stuff to turn this into a usable app. We are probably going to have our first functioning version done sometime this week.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Day 9 of building my startup: after over a week of me and my friend trying to improve the object recognition we came to the conclusion that classical CV is not good enough for what we are doing. Starting tomorrow we will try to use proper object recognition models.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Day 9 of building my startup: after over a week of me and my friend trying to improve the object recognition we came to the conclusion that classical CV is not good enough for what we are doing. Starting tomorrow we will try to use proper object recognition models.
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Day 3 of building my startup: i worked on some UI as well as getting some advice from a friend on how to improve my computer vision system. It’s coming together very quickly!
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Day 3 of building my startup: i worked on some UI as well as getting some advice from a friend on how to improve my computer vision system. It’s coming together very quickly!
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
Day 2 of building my startup: i managed to get a lot of the computer vision code working. its not perfect and it needs a lot of fine tuning but now it is able to count the number of items in a picture
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Day 2 of building my startup: i managed to get a lot of the computer vision code working. its not perfect and it needs a lot of fine tuning but now it is able to count the number of items in a picture
i’m building a new inventory management app to speed up stock taking
i will post regular updates. all suggestions are greatly appreciated
#buildinpublic
i will post regular updates. all suggestions are greatly appreciated
#buildinpublic
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i’m building a new inventory management app to speed up stock taking
i will post regular updates. all suggestions are greatly appreciated
#buildinpublic
i will post regular updates. all suggestions are greatly appreciated
#buildinpublic
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Dear website owners,
If you do not provide a 'reject all' option meaning you want me to reject all requests individually, I will never return to your website.
If you do not provide a 'reject all' option meaning you want me to reject all requests individually, I will never return to your website.
August 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Dear website owners,
If you do not provide a 'reject all' option meaning you want me to reject all requests individually, I will never return to your website.
If you do not provide a 'reject all' option meaning you want me to reject all requests individually, I will never return to your website.
Reposted by Sid
The irony that 'Open'AI is so closed that a Chinese open model can come in and deflate the OpenAI bubble in less than a week...
January 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The irony that 'Open'AI is so closed that a Chinese open model can come in and deflate the OpenAI bubble in less than a week...
first thing I saw when I woke up was that the internet isn't working. This is gonna be a wonderful day.
January 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
first thing I saw when I woke up was that the internet isn't working. This is gonna be a wonderful day.
Today I learned the hard way that PIR motion sensors can't see through glass. I was showering and suddenly all of the lights turned off and wouldn't turn back on.
January 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Today I learned the hard way that PIR motion sensors can't see through glass. I was showering and suddenly all of the lights turned off and wouldn't turn back on.
Reposted by Sid
Linux distro hoping 2025 edition
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Linux distro hoping 2025 edition
Somehow docker crashed bringing everything down with it. I managed to fix it by deleting the config file.
January 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Somehow docker crashed bringing everything down with it. I managed to fix it by deleting the config file.
January 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
i just started learning react and i love it
December 29, 2024 at 5:08 PM
i just started learning react and i love it
I finally finished making my home assistant morning automation. It only took 3 months to get right.
#homeassistant
#homeassistant
December 24, 2024 at 11:46 AM
I finally finished making my home assistant morning automation. It only took 3 months to get right.
#homeassistant
#homeassistant