Channing Allen
@ChanningAllen
Co-founder @IndieHackers I tweet lessons from my 50+ weekly chats with founders. Mostly how stuff works and how to make it work for you.
Vibe coding will cause lots of heartbreak for non-technical “idea” people. And honestly I can't wait lol. They've been on the sidelines swearing up and down that: “If I could only build my brilliant idea™️, I'd be making millions in no time.” But now that building is easy,…
I can name one or two benefits of therapy culture, but on net I think it's bad for people. All of the therapy-brained people I know have a vast vocabulary for blaming their unhappiness on their parents (childhood trauma) or peers (toxic, narcissist) but they rarely have the…
I look forward to doing chores around the house (laundry, dishes, etc.) because that's when I listen to audiobooks and knock out most of my daily reading. It's like a decade-long habit I never thought I was going to break. But now I've mostly replaced my audiobook habit with…
Okay I couldn't take it anymore, climbed back up to 400mg caffeine per day. I'm fucking back baby let's gooo
Been dialing down how much caffeine I consume for the last ~2 months. Used to do 400mg+ per day, now limiting to 200mg max. Now finding out that what I thought was my personality was, to a large extent, my caffeine personality. Might go back to 400mg, I kinda suck now
I'm obsessed with how we frame things so this post kiiind of annoys me (even though it's true). Yes: humans make AI 80% slower and dumber. But also: AI makes humans 20% faster and smarter. This is a modern-day miracle! We should be holding hands and singing songs daily
I’m slowly beginning to accept that my productivity, when working with AI coding agents, is limited by my human brain. AI can do many tasks in parallel, but I can only track the context of a few, so I only run a few tasks at a time. I am the bottleneck.
Vibe coded games are old news now but they might be the best way to catch the wave of a viral story
i vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlers you're the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling 10 points every time you find them 👇link
One of my favorite things to do is also one of the most annoying things I do: When someone tells me they're not good at something, I ask how often they practice that thing. They usually don't know how to respond to this. It's as if I'm asking how often they order food that's not…
Better yet: be this person, but instead of using it to help someone else build their business, use it to build your own.
Major career cheat code: Be the person who can figure it out. You’ll be handed tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask key questions. Get it done. If you do that, people will fight over you.
Been dialing down how much caffeine I consume for the last ~2 months. Used to do 400mg+ per day, now limiting to 200mg max. Now finding out that what I thought was my personality was, to a large extent, my caffeine personality. Might go back to 400mg, I kinda suck now
Smartglasses are the best on-the-go headphones, but nobody knows about them because of product positioning. They're positioned as wearable cameras with AI assistants, and I think they're slow to catch on because everyone remembers Google's "Glasshole" scandal from 10+ years ago,…
I have a loathing for politics that's so visceral it borders on the irrational. I spent some time thinking about it this morning and I think I know why: It's because I'm an entrepreneur. If you spend enough time trying to build a business, you inevitably become…
You'll have: - 100 business ideas before you start building - 100 feature ideas after you start building - 100 marketing ideas after you launch - 100 "shinier" business ideas after you gain traction
Being a founder means: Having 100 hundred ideas every day and only being able to choose one. Anyone else struggling with this?
just crossed 4M emails sent for indie hackers, pretty wild
Of all the weird gadgets I collect, this might be my favorite. Salt gun for killing flies/bugs you otherwise couldn't reach. I'm from the south but never got into guns. I think I see the appeal now. Shooting a housefly out of mid-air surfaces something primal in you
