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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/09/2025

Who is the best security research/pen tester you know and that I should talk to? I want to create the go-to guide for VPS security.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/09/2025

kind of impressed what a single post can do

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 16/09/2025

do you feel like it really helped your flow or meh?

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 16/09/2025

Do you use any memory/task management MCP's?

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 15/09/2025

I've never had anything to do with the movie industry... ...but for two years I built software used by billion dollar production companies and some of the best talent agencies and producers in the world. You can just build things as an outsider. Your niche can be autism.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 15/09/2025

"how could this have happened?"

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 15/09/2025

I noticed something weird: bad devs = bad vibe coders great devs = great vibe coders exceptional devs = horrible vibe coders

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 15/09/2025

you can't see it on bsky (yet), but you can imply from actual interactions (likes/comments) assuming similar ratios to X

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 15/09/2025

I don't have a lot of followers at all and barely even grow here, most of my tweets get like 100 impressions. I beg you to just post like once a week and reach out to people. It'll change your life. 99% of all the opportunity in the past two years came from here.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 14/09/2025

Don't have good ideas? Just ship something. A tool, a website, a real-time transcription app, a full fledged steam scraper so you and your friends can get better game recommendations than on Steam. Your ideas will get better the more you do.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 12/09/2025

Devs: you type 60-100 WPM. You speak 150-180 WPM. What's stopping you from just speaking into Cursor?

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 23/08/2025

something like that would prob be most accurate, but not feasible in public gyms for me

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 22/08/2025

Tracking workouts sucks. Pen and paper sucks and all the apps I've tried also suck. I just want to workout while I'm in the gym and yet still have everything magically tracked...

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 21/08/2025

One thing I learned from taking a long time off is that, no matter how autistic you are, you need hobbies in your life other than building stuff and you absolutely need to spend time with people who aren't builders. It will replenish creativity faster than anything else

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 20/08/2025

the real litmus test to know if you'll survive in the AI utopia is moving to the countryside. if you're bored and don't know what to do with your life you're ngmi go play some more minecraft and figure it out

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 20/08/2025

What are your favorite tools that you think have a super fair price and respect you as a user?

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/08/2025

how do you define that?

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/08/2025

Screen studio is such a nice product. You can just buy it once, get updates for a year, but own it forever.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/08/2025

My gf is really good at cooking so she is now cooking a meal planner app for us

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/08/2025

'i will refactor later, trust me'

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 19/08/2025

just bought sanetools.com and will make it a simple directory for tools that respect you: 1. no subscriptions if not necessary 2. if sub is necessary, it should have a sane price 3. no shady things or dark pattern bullsh*t (sorry adobe) what else should I filter for?

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 18/08/2025

I haven't coded for over two months. This is the longest I've gone without coding since I was 13 and it feels weird.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 18/08/2025

Bought new macbooks for gf and me. A while ago when we decided to take a serious break, we wiped and sold our macbooks We're starting from 0 again. She wants to be a coder and indie hacker, so technically I'll be a duopreneur from now on.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 18/08/2025

I think one of the most interesting learnings of Genie 3 + SIMA is that generalists beat specialists and it's not even close. Maybe this will also hold true for humans over the next few decades.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 18/08/2025

Ok, fk it, time to build again. After exiting my last startup, I thought I'd just take some time off and travel, but oh boy my brain doesn't shut up about building stuff. On to new shores and fresh ideas.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 17/08/2025

Let's stop making everything a damn subscription. Thank you for your attention.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 17/08/2025

It is with great pleasure to inform you that I am an engaged man

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 06/06/2025

Couldn’t agree more. Biggest failures of high potential people I’ve seen were ones that had crazy ideas, dangerous levels of self confidence but no strategy, consistent agency and emotional intelligence to back it up.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 26/03/2025

I'm 30, eat healthy, workout 5x a week, touch grass, go to the sauna, don't have money problems and enjoy building companies. Last week I thought I got a flu (it wasn't), had to go to ER and now have heart damage. Waiting for someone to pull off the VR glasses so I can leave a bad review.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 14/01/2025

Hailuo just casually dropped an llm with 4 MILLION token context length. You can put 30 full length novels into that context length. We're now just one OOM away from putting the whole source code of an operating system in the context window.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

Yeah I think it’s really the crazy valuations- they gotta return insane amounts of money to make money on this

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

And I repeat: at least make it open source if you don't really work on it anymore so we can go and build shit on top of it ourselves.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

...but nothing is happening. Maybe we should copy more tbh. Sometimes I feel like it's just a strategy thing and avoiding VC or at least being frugal with rounds/valuations helps make better products that return more money and value in the long run.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

And after a while the products are being treated as if they're done. There is so much more. They could all become 10x what they are right now. I'm not just talking about major things here. I'm talking about things talented and motivated builders can clock out in a week - solo.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

Paying for early Rewind was worth every penny and I would've paid for Arc. I was kind of wondering why they never introduced a payment model for it tbh. Have awesome features, great development momentum and instead of just selling all my data just let me pay you. Cool.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

This is coming from somebody who absolutely LOVED the early days of @browsercompany and @RewindAI. I LOVED every time a new Arc update dropped with loads of cool new stuff that made my life better or every time Rewind suddenly halved their battery drain, added better UI, etc.

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Alex Burlis @alexburlis.com · 11/01/2025

So, I don't get this phenomenon where companies build something great (e.g. @browsercompany @RewindAI) High usage, great pmf, even with revenue or high potential. Then they just abandon it in favor of something nobody asked for. At least make it open source when you move on...