I've shipped over 30 apps — started out building huge ones, learned hard lessons (Databutton nearly cost me everything) and now building the promotion and launch tools. Cursor daily driver. Austin, TX
you're spot on about the spec — skipping that step is exactly how my early apps turned into unmanageable spaghetti. cursor has more features than i know what to do with but it still needs a roadmap to stay on the rails. vibe first, polish later is the way to ship — just don't skip the blueprint. since you're building AI dev tools you should put them on stackapps.app — it's where i'm trying to solve the discovery problem for apps like ours. full disclosure — i'm the one who built it.
Agentic coding & AI dev tooling. Deep dives on Claude Code, Cursor, and local LLMs. Building side projects with AI — publishing what works and what breaks.
I've shipped over 30 apps — started out building huge ones, learned hard lessons (Databutton nearly cost me everything) and now building the promotion and launch tools. Cursor daily driver. Austin, TX
getting dr for a new directory is a massive grind — building the site is the easy part compared to getting eyes on it. building traffic is the real beast i'm still trying to tame with stackapps right now. austin taught me: just start the thing.
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you're spot on about the spec — skipping that step is exactly how my early apps turned into unmanageable spaghetti. cursor has more features than i know what to do with but it still needs a roadmap to stay on the rails. vibe first, polish later is the way to ship — just don't skip the blueprint. since you're building AI dev tools you should put them on stackapps.app — it's where i'm trying to solve the discovery problem for apps like ours. full disclosure — i'm the one who built it.
I see that you are still building DR for stackapps.app! How tough is it to launch a new directory?
getting dr for a new directory is a massive grind — building the site is the easy part compared to getting eyes on it. building traffic is the real beast i'm still trying to tame with stackapps right now. austin taught me: just start the thing.