iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm building an AI that picks your outfit every morning from clothes you already own. No subscription boxes. No new purchases. Just better use of what's in your closet. Here's why 🧵

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Go-to tools when building search into my apps:- LumoSearch - Algolia - Typesense - MeiliSearch - Elasticsearch - Meilisearch Cloud - OpenSearch - Redis Search - Postgres FTS - Pinecone - Weaviate - Qdrant - Supabase pgvector lumosearch.com

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Founders who don't value simplicity have a hard time seeing why adding more complexity is a bad idea. I've heard so many people say "just add another service, it'll be fine." No clue what they built themselves into.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My best indie hacker advice: 1. Find a problem you personally hate 2. Ship the ugliest version that works 3. Talk to 10 users 4. Find the next thing they complain about 5. Repeat 2-4 until it pays

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Everyone wants to know what tools solopreneurs use. Nobody asks what they stopped using. Cutting the noise (and switching to Cloud scheduler for AI agents. Never miss a job again) freed up more time than any productivity hack ever did. clawtick.com

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Tell yourself these 5 things before you open your laptop: 1. I ship, therefore I am. 2. the 9-5 does not own me. 3. slow progress is still progress. 4. I build for the long game. 5. today I move the needle. 30 days. watch what happens.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Everyone told me side projects were "a waste of time" - and I believed them. I was wrong. They were right. Most of what I've built has taught me more than any job ever did.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Without a clear definition of "done," is it possible to know the difference between shipping and just stopping?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pick a problem. Build the fix. Search it with LumoSearch. Ship it fast. Do it alone and it's called a side project. Do it in public and it's called a product.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Consistency is becoming the rarest edge in indie hacking. Skills, tools, AI, infra knowledge - none of it matters if you can't ship the same project two weeks in a row. What kills most side projects: distraction, not difficulty.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Tools I actually use when building AI SaaS UI at midnight: 1. Mobbin 2. Dribbble 3. Godly 4. Landingfolio 5. SaaSFrame 6. Land-book 7. Screenlane 8. Muzli Bookmark these. Your designer is you.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Don't quit before 2027. AI agents will handle the boring infra. Solo devs will ship full SaaS in weekends. The indie hacker ceiling isn't a ceiling anymore. What are you building right now?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Greatest lesson from building on the side: you can't half-commit to your product and expect it to grow. Either you're building it or you're not. Which one are you actually doing?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

been thinking about this only like 3 million devs actually shipping with AI assistance rest are still manually writing CRUD routes and debugging state meanwhile we're building full apps in weekends gap isn't closing, it's widening

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Honest question that might start a fight: What % of your code is now AI-generated vs hand-written? For me: • Boilerplate: 90% AI • Core logic: 60% AI, heavy editing • Debugging: 30% AI, mostly prompts for ideas • Architecture: 5% AI (I still design) Your numbers?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

AI coding tools are a 10x multiplier. But only if you already know what 1x looks like. A cardiologist can win a hackathon with Claude Code. But they can't architect a system that handles 100K users. The gap isn't closing. It's widening.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Real AI productivity isn't a magic button It's the validation loop AI generates → you validate → AI refines → repeat This multiplies output without killing quality But only if you architect the feedback cycle right

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

been watching the openclaw thing unfold and it's honestly wild dude built something that blew up everywhere, perfect timing, massive traction and still can't figure out how to turn it into a real business from europe makes you wonder if we're all just speedrunning burnout for github stars

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Hey engineers 👀 AI coding just revealed something wild: 🧠 You love system design 🎯 You love problem-solving 🏗️ You love architecture 💡 You love building solutions ⌨️ You tolerate writing code Drop a comment if this resonates ⬇️

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

been building with AI for months and honestly if you're still doubting where this is headed? just try claude/gpt-4 on a real task give it the same context you'd give a junior dev it's wild how much it handles now and this is literally the worst these models will ever be

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

AI coding is the worst productivity trap "Just one more prompt" at 11pm Then midnight Then 2am It feels 5 minutes away from shipping It's never 5 minutes away Now I'm debugging at 3am again

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

>ship fast >realize it's broken >patch it live >users complain >fix it again >still broken >delete branch >start over this is just indie hacking with extra steps

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

In 2016, one skill was minting millionaires faster than anything else: Facebook ads Facebook ads went from $0 a year to $100 BILLION+ The wave was there, you just needed to be in the water. The new wave? Learn Claude Be the open claw king. Learn every new ai tool day 1

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Everyone's chasing viral ideas-I'm hunting problems people pay to escape:

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode is 2.5x faster… But 6x more expensive. $5/$25 → $30/$150 per MTok. Stack adaptive thinking + long context + US inference and your bill can jump 10–12x. Speed matters. But always calculate cost per unit of work, not just tokens per second. AI infra decisions compound

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Sam Altman's worried AI might steal his CEO job If the boss isn't safe, are any of us? Are we all just training our replacements at this point?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Another signup came in 🚨 Building in public gets you users. Talking to those users builds the right product. About to reach out and learn what problem they're actually trying to solve with Clawtick. This conversation matters more than my roadmap.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Building ClawTick felt like juggling fire blindfolded Scheduling AI agents sounds simple until you actually try it Anyone else fighting chaos just to make things work?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Had a new app idea and almost mass-texted everyone about it. Then I remembered: check the name first. (learned that lesson the hard way) Ship tools. Save yourself from embarrassment. Repeat. 🔗 github.com/abakermi/asc

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

been experimenting with AI coding workflows and this combo actually works: planning/architecture → opus 4.6 writing the actual code → codex 5.3 feels like having two different brains for different jobs all in cursor obviously

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“Why can’t I use my $100 Claude subscription however I want?” Because you’re not paying for unlimited compute. You’re paying for a product. The API was always the real product

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Unpopular opinion: If you rely on AI to schedule your cloud jobs, you're not a dev, you're a glorified cron whisperer with startup anxiety.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"I missed the boat." "Someone already built that." "The gold rush is over." People said this about dot-com, Web 2.0, social, mobile, cloud… and now AI. There’s always another window. The people who aren't complaining are the ones who are seizing it.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

been seeing the same saas ideas on repeat another habit tracker another job board another wrapper around someone else's api why copy what's already been done 100 times? build something weird something nobody asked for something that makes people go "wait what" that's how you actually stand out

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

AI coding agents are great executors but terrible strategists The skill shift isn't about prompting better It's about thinking like an architect while AI handles the grunt work

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If you're an indie hacker obsessed with AI agents, cloud schedulers, and building fast, I highly recommend you talk about that with your side-hustle peers, in tweets, etc. So many devs still trash these tools, it's absolutely nuts to me.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

working 8 hours then building a side project is slowly breaking me-how do you actually make this work ?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

ByteDance just caught a lawsuit from Disney and Paramount for training AI on pirated movies But can AI ever make something truly original, or just shuffle the deck forever?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Scheduling feels like herding cats So I built ClawTick for OpenClaw to try and fix it But does it tame the chaos, or just give me another calendar to ignore? Anyone else drowning in meeting madness?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Building something and not releasing it is like cooking a full meal and leaving it in the kitchen untouched. You never find out if it's good (and your ego stays safely intact). How many unreleased products are collecting dust on your hard drive right now?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

That satisfying *cha-ching* hit my inbox again 💰There’s nothing like that notification hitting your inbox 🔔🔥

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

struggling at my 8-4, then coding till 2am on side projects who else is out here? drop what you're building 👇

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Solo builders beat billion-dollar companies on speed, not resources One person with the right tools moves faster than entire teams

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

spent 2 hours debugging a form validation bug yesterday no cursor, no copilot, just me and the console forgot how much raw suffering goes into a simple "email is required" check remembered why i let AI write this stuff now

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

So apparently using AI to name stuff is a flex now Meanwhile I'm just hoping it'll name my laundry piles Genius or just avoiding real work?

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Cron jobs have been ruining my week-what's your biggest pain point? A) Silent failures B) No execution history C) Debugging takes forever D) Server maintenance overhead Genuinely curious 👇

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

been building apps for years but real talk? seeing people actually pay for what you made hits different AI changed everything - you don't need decades of experience anymore the "i need to learn to code first" excuse is dead barriers are gone, just ship it v1.0 of my latest thing in the comments

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

"AI's gonna take all the dev jobs!" said by someone who's never debugged a merge conflict at 2am

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

massive opportunity right now: making SaaS tools CLI-friendly so AI agents can actually plug in and work 100% - CLI or proper API is table stakes now. first thing I check before any tool touches my stack.

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Abdelhak @abakermi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

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