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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What will be the moat going forward? Looks like only distribution (audience) will provide a competitive advantage?

Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Excited to see what the community will build around this. I loved Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, and Red Alert 2. Need to figure out how I can play these 4 on a Mac :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Indeed, if they send too many emails out, include a lot of irrelevant stuff, or are too salesy, I tend to unsubscribe as well :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Depends on the product. If I use it, sure. I want to know what changed and how it improved. If I don't use it (anymore), I unsubscribe.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I'm using ProtonMail and I'm very happy with it. The only annoyance is that their calendar doesn't support two-way sync. So I can subscribe to the calendar and see the events in my calendar app but I can't create new events outside of Proton Calendar.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Yeah self-hosted Ghost is an interesting option. I also want to use my own website/blog instead of the Substack/Kit pages. But it looks like you need Mailgun in order to send emails via self-hosted Ghost. Sounds easier to just use Loops, which I already use in some projects.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Yeah will be definitely different content and format. Still undecided. Considering something like Substack/Kit, Ghost or Loops. Not sure if the recommendation/discovery features of pure newsletter platforms like Substack/Kit are worth it. Can you recommend a platform?

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The topics overlap a bit but my personal will be about me and my work while the erfindergeist.io newsletter will be generally about how AI can help solopreneurs build their empires (collection of AI tools, resources, strategies etc). Contemplating for a while now and I think this will be the setup.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Good question. I'm considering two newsletters: 1) My personal (monthly) newsletter about my personal work, bets, and experiments (Solo-/Entrepreneurship, Bootstrapping, SaaS, Marketing) 2) Erfindergeist.io (weekly) newsletter focused on AI-powered solo-/entrepreneurs

erfindergeist.io

Erfindergeist.io - Software development as a Service for web app MVPs, tools, and automations

Your go-to software development subscription, dedicated to turning visionary concepts into beautiful, effective digital products.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Essentially I like the ethics, values, and incentives a lot more in Remix than Next.js. Both are great frameworks tho. Here's a great article on this topic: www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-u...

epicweb.dev

Why I Won't Use Next.js

From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Remix is a lot easier and straightforward. It exposes official web APIs that you use anywhere on the web. Next.js is often a blackbox where a lot of magic happens. I also don't like how it's built to work in a serverless environment and some features only working with their hosting solution Vercel.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I use both. But yes, for newer projects I‘d rather use Remix/React Router than Next.js. Astro for content-heavy websites.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Next.js has too much "magic" involved and it uses their own utilities instead of exposing official web APIs directly. Knowledge isn't transferable to other frameworks. I also dislike this whole serverless bullshit. Great article on this topic: www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-u...

epicweb.dev

Why I Won't Use Next.js

From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won't use Next.js.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yeah I hate canned responses by BigTech that don't communicate anything and provide absolutely no value.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

You are not allowed to use a trademark in your ads and as your domain includes "Steam" there is no way to advertize in accordance with their ToS. That's why they denied approval.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The Discover feed has its own (private?) algorithm defined by Bsky. The Following feed has no algo and shows the posts chronologically. Unlike the Following feed on X.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Same here. Building is so much more fun than marketing.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I have muted all servers and only allow @everyone on specific servers. Also users from most servers can't DM me. Those DM's that go through result in a notification. This way I don't receive unnecessary notifications.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Why use a monthly plan instead of usage-based payments via API key?

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

That is indeed a great feature of a city. And dutch cities also provide the infrastructure for biking. Unfortunately many cities in other countries aren't that flat which makes biking a lot harder and less fun.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

According to the bsky team it takes a few days to see changes in the algo after clicking on "show less like this". It's not effective immediately.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I see. In this case I‘d communicate beforehand that focusing on speed in the beginning will lead to refactoring needs later on.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I try to refactor in the actual ticket. It increases the time I have worked on a feature but I don't have to explain why there is a separate refactoring ticket that has no visible result for the client. So instead of refactoring a lot in one go I try to add a refactoring step to each ticket.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Haven't started reading yet, just arrived. But I'll report back when I've read them :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Nice, I have this one already on my reading list :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hey Nick! I'd love to be part of the starter pack :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Same here. So many ideas and so little time :-/

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think X purged a lot of bots recently. That's probably why you've lost "followers" but not real humans.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For business: - "Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth" by Gabriel Weinberg - "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" by Nir Eyal - "Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business" by Paul Jarvis

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm a generalist, added to my reading list :) Tough one, from the top of my head: - "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle - "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie - "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Interesting, I'd describe my journey so far also as a "pathless path" :) Added to my reading list, thanks! :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

📚 Just in time for the holidays! My end-of-year reading haul has arrived :) @arvidkahl.bsky.social What's on your December reading list? Share your picks below! 👇

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Mostly TailwindCSS with HeadlessUI. nivo.rocks for charts. I want to rewrite the whole frontend with shadcn/ui and some other library choices tho, but there are other more important things to do :)

nivo.rocks

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Supercharged React dataviz components.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Great read Iron, subscribed! :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Congrats Pierro! Great decision, and I wish you best of luck on your new journey :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I haven't played games in a long time haha. My last game was League of Legends. There aren't a lot of fast-paced FPS. Didn't know about The Finals but from watching a few gameplay videos I wouldn't say it's a fast-paced FPS.

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Congrats Dmytro, impressive progress! :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'd say: 1) Fast-paced First-Person-Shooter, FPS (like Quake, War§ow) 2) Strategy (like Command & Conquer, Anno, Settlers) 3) Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, MOBA (like League of Legends)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Congrats Marc! Impressive results and great marketing :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thank you! Reposted the starter pack :)

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Benjamin @benjiminio.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Congrats Sebastian, great achievement! :)

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