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Courtland Allen

@csallen

Founder of @IndieHackers

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IMO the biggest way we're living in an idiocracy is minimizing the importance of community. We're tribal animals. We're supposed to find purpose and connection from contributing to a community of people we know and love. Instead the norm is to: - isolate yourself solo or in a

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I think there will be a cultural reversal to individual isolationism in within 1-2 decades. It'll be trendy to live near friends/family and prioritize community. It just needs momentum: A few solid examples, some studies, a viral blog post or two, then a hit book about it

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If you think it's a problem that the world now has AI-generated software full of bugs and technical debt, I have something shocking to tell you about all the software we've been using for the past 50 years…

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A healthy environment gives you safety, Safety enables ambition, Ambition encourages learning, Learning develops skills, Skills produce wins, Wins provide evidence, Evidence fuels confidence, Confidence becomes courage, Courage creates opportunities, Opportunities

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Half of my close friends are now multi-millionaires 😊😊😊 And yes we met before they were successful Indie hacking (and then ETF investing the profits) works!

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The only thing more astonishing than the number of nerds on HN who criticize agentic coding without ever having tried it themselves, is the fact that I am still astonished by it

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Imagine the countless trillions of useful published works that could theoretically exist, but that were never written. Because nobody was interested. Or nobody thought of it. Or the audience was too small, too niche. But then the web came along, and gave everyone the power to

Imagine the countless trillions of useful published works that could theoretically exist, but that were never written.

Because nobody was interested. Or nobody thought of it. Or the audience was too small, too niche.

But then the web came along, and gave everyone the power to
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Someone help me understand the appeal of Claude Code, compared to Cursor: - Doesn't have a real textbox, so it's hard to select/manipulate/copy text in your prompts as you write them - Doesn't stream back AI responses, so you have to wait for them to finish before reading them -

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Pieter Levels (@levelsio) and I sat down over a pint to talk about how he’s making $3m a year as a one-person company, what Europe can do to spur economic growth, and his experience as a digital nomad in over 150 cities across 40 countries. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:37 Pieter’s

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you think that completing a quest will make you happy but as soon as you get the reward you find yourself in a deep depression until you start a new quest. it's not the reward you want, you just want to be on an actual quest

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One of the best things coding agents can do for you is explain things: - an undocumented codebase - all the changes it just made - an unfamiliar SDK or API - a code execution path from start to finish It's fast, accurate, and super helpful. My favorite prompt: "Teach me how