i browsed 1,736 dead YC startups on startups.rip. most died the usual way — no money, bad timing, no market. but one had 15M monthly visitors and still got killed. i'm rebuilding it.

https://github.com/fberrez/blurt.sh

#buildinpublic #indiehackers #indiedev #opensource #blogging #writing #ai

ai is genuinely incredible for building tools and prototypes. i use it every day

but there's this weird thing where people who never shipped anything at scale now think the hard part of software is writing the first 200 lines of code

it never was

#vibecoding #buildinpublic #webdev #indiedev #ai

this post was scheduled by dropping a markdown file into a folder. that's the whole product.

social-queue: no server, no database, no UI. just files → bluesky/mastodon/linkedin

https://github.com/fberrez/social-queue if you want to ditch your overpriced scheduler

#opensource #devtools #buildinpublic #indiedev

"yeah ai one-shotted it, just need to adjust a few things and deploy"

the few things you need to adjust IS the entire product

that's like pouring a foundation and saying you basically built a skyscraper. just need to adjust a few things

#vibecoding #softwaredevelopment