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Passwordless sign-in is live on Achene: passkey via FaceID, TouchID or a security key, or a one-click magic link to your inbox. No password to invent, forget, or reset, for you or your students. What's your preferred login method? #buildinpublic

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Migrating students off another platform is the reason bulk import exists on Achene now. Upload a CSV of names and emails and each row creates an account plus an invite link automatically, no adding people one at a time. #SaaS #EdTech

Enrolment, a new contact, a tag getting added, any of those can now kick off an automated email sequence on Achene. Chain steps: send an email, wait, update contact data, without touching each one by hand. Custom events and user events are also available. #buildinpublic #SaaS #edtech

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 24/07/2026

I'm currently for all building in public, are you using Gamification in product? What are your thoughts and feelings about Gamification? Are you aware of the Octalysis Framework by Yu-kai Chou? #buildinpublic #octalysisbook #SaaS

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Lessons on Achene can now be reordered by dragging them into place instead of managing them one at a time. Small change, but it's the kind of thing that makes building a course actually feel easy instead of fiddly. #buildinpublic #indiehackers #SaaS

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 24/07/2026

Forum moderation for Achene: teachers can pin important topics, lock a discussion, edit or remove any post, and restore context when something gets removed so the thread still makes sense. Small platform, still needs real moderation tools. #buildinpublic #edtech

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 24/07/2026

Students get emailed automatically when someone replies to a forum topic they're part of on Achene, no extra setup needed. They can mute a single topic or opt out of forum email entirely if it's too much. Small feature, cuts down on people missing replies. #buildinpublic

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 23/07/2026

One place to see every student enrolled across every Achene course now: subscription status (active, past due, cancelled), enrolment dates, all in one screen. No more piecing that together course by course. #buildinpublic #SaaS #edtech

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 23/07/2026

Ever lose your place in a course video and have to scrub around guessing where you left off? Achene's lesson player now remembers exactly where you stopped, plus playback speed from 0.75x to 2x, and marks a lesson complete once you hit 90% watched.

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 22/07/2026

Achene's lesson editor supports headings, images, code blocks, links, bullet lists, and blockquotes, and everything autosaves as you type. Built so writing a lesson feels like writing anywhere else, not fighting a form. #buildinpublic #edtech #SaaS

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 22/07/2026

Email campaigns are live on Achene: pick a segment of contacts, schedule the send, preview before it goes out, then see opens, clicks, and bounces afterward. Basic by design, built to actually get used rather than sit half configured. #buildinpublic

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 21/07/2026

Weighing a native branded mobile app for Achene, Circle style: download the app, log in, your courses are right there, styled to your brand. Would this actually change how your students show up, or is web enough? #buildinpublic #edtech

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 21/07/2026

Lessons on Achene can now unlock immediately, on a set date, or a number of days after someone enrols. Shipped this week. Students see the release date for anything still locked, no guessing when the next one drops. #buildinpublic #edtech

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 20/07/2026

Achene now has two layers of community: a discussion forum scoped to each course, enrolled students only, and a site-wide forum open to everyone active on the platform. Different conversations belong in different places. #buildinpublic #SaaS

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 20/07/2026

Students get a real dashboard on Achene now: every enrolled course, completion progress, recent bookmarks, and a continue learning shortcut that picks up exactly where they left off. Built for the student who forgot which lesson they were on. #buildinpublic

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 19/07/2026

Thinking about live video sessions for Achene next, built on Cloudflare Stream, maybe live audio too. Genuine question for course creators here: how much does live actually matter to you versus recorded lessons, and would you use it? #coursecreator #edtech

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 19/07/2026

Upload a video straight into an Achene lesson now and you actually see it happening: upload progress, then processing status, in real time. No more wondering if it silently failed halfway through. Small feature, saved me refreshing the page five times testing it.

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 18/07/2026

Every enrolled student on Achene is now automatically a contact. Tag them, filter by course or status, export or delete for GDPR compliance in one click. Shipped this week. #buildinpublic

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 18/07/2026

Three real categories of AI coding tools now: inline chat, agentic terminal agents, and IDE-integrated agents. I use the last two mainly. Curious if other solo devs converged on a similar split or went all in on one. #buildinpublic

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 18/07/2026

I'm trying to build a community on socials while building in public, but now I'm wondering if I will actually get followers that will be likely to use the platform I'm building... Do other creators worry about this? Is there a solution? #buildinpublic #SaaS

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 17/07/2026

The "solo" in solo founder isn't deciding everything alone, most of Achene's roadmap comes from what people ask for or push back on in the forum. The real solo part: nobody else triages the bug reports, nobody to stop you building at 2am Least glamorous part of building alone, for you? #indiehackers

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 17/07/2026

What do you think is the single most important skill as a software engineer? Is there one thing you feel all good engineers need, or do you feel it's a collection of specific skills that are needed to succeed? #buildinpublic #SaaS #WebDev

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 16/07/2026

If you're using AI while developing, which models and plans are you using, and how much are you spending each month? I'm using Claude Pro and rarely hit the weekly limit before it renews, so that's £17 per month. #BuildInPublic #SaaS #WebDevelopment #WebDev

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 15/07/2026

Are there any tools people love at the moment while developing, other than AI!? I'm using Blacksmith with my CI at the moment and find it a game changer for.many reasons. I will link below. p.s. no affiliation, just a great product! #buildinpublic #saas #webdev

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 15/07/2026

I often use AI for work, but I'm not totally sure any of us should be doing so. There are so many potential issues with the mass use of AI, I'm not sure the benefits outweigh the risks. How do others feel about this? Are you concerned about mass usage of AI, or do you not worry about it? #AI #ethics

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 15/07/2026

What social media do people use when they are building in public, and which do they feel are the best and why!? 🤔 #SaaS #BuildInPublic

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 14/07/2026

If you sell courses on Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, or Circle, what quietly annoys you most? Pricing tiers, bolted-on community features, clunky video hosting? Trying to understand the real pain points before assuming I know them. #coursecreator #edtech #elearning

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 13/07/2026

Genuine question for course creators: what's the one thing your platform, Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, Circle, still gets wrong after all these years? Not pitching anything, just want to understand the real pain points. #coursecreator #edtech #creatoreconomy

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 13/07/2026

Achene needs video transcription for accessibility, and I don't see a good non AI path. Manual doesn't scale, older tools give rough results. Plan is Cloudflare Workers AI: open source, renewable powered, not a SaaS API. Still not free environmentally. Worth it? #coursecreator #edtech #elearning

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 13/07/2026

I use AI daily building Achene, but I don't let it drive. Directed engineering: I decide the shape, it fills in the boring parts, I read every line before it ships. Efficient, not automatic. Still figuring out where that line should sit. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 12/07/2026

Curious what other devs think: which linter or hygiene tool actually earned a permanent spot in your CI pipeline, and which one did you rip out after it turned out to be more noise than signal? #buildinpublic #webdev #indiehackers

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 11/07/2026

Been leaning on Knip for JS/TS hygiene: unused exports, dead files, orphaned deps ESLint won't catch. Wired it into CI with the github-actions reporter so it annotates PRs directly, not a log dump. ts-prune's in maintenance mode now, Knip's the safer pick. #buildinpublic #webdev #indiehackers

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 10/07/2026

Playing with RedwoodSDK's realtime hooks this week. useSyncedState plus Durable Objects means cross tab sync without writing a single line of WebSocket boilerplate myself. Cloudflare's platform primitives keep making "just use what's there" the right call. #cloudflareworkers #webdev #buildinpublic

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 09/07/2026

Confession: I've used almost every editor that's existed. Notepad, Dreamweaver, Sublime, Vim, VS Code. Currently on Zed and loving the speed. What's your daily driver right now, and what made you switch to it? #buildinpublic #webdev

Pete Stewart @achene.app · 08/07/2026

What do people actually think about AI being integrated in tools and platforms they use? Do people want AI powered course outline creation for example? Do people live the new AI everywhere, or are you feeling it's over used? Are people concerned about the potential risks, environmental & social?

Image of people using AI tools.integeated into their platform. Some seem to be enjoying the experience, others feel confused and frustrated.

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 07/07/2026

30 years since my first website. ~20 years since going pro, starting as a game dev at Matmi in 2006. Just been listed in the top 100 IT Leaders, plus recent awards for Tinkr Creative. No search engines back then, just a book of good sites. Hand-written .ini files. Wild how far we've come. #WebDev

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 07/07/2026

I'm please to see you still get a fireworks easter egg when hitting 100 on all all lighthouse scores. Although they're not perfect performance metrics, still fun to see.

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 03/07/2026

Thrilled to share my Nant Gwrtheyrn Nature Trail app just won TWO awards at the Computing Digital Tech Leaders Awards 2026! 🏆🏆 Proud to build tools that connect people with beautiful Welsh heritage & nature. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💻🌿

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 29/06/2026

Months building Achene. Zero design work. Not even a real logo. That changes now. Next four weeks: brand, UI, UX. All of it. Before I start -- what's a product design you love? One you hate? Doesn't have to be EdTech. Anything goes. Drop your picks below 👇 #BuildInPublic #UXDesign #EdTech

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Pete Stewart @achene.app · 25/06/2026

Building completion certificates into Achene — but do course creators actually care? PDF, digital badge, or neither? 👇 Tell me below #BuildInPublic #EdTech #CourseCreators