iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 08/03/2026

I'm calling it Proxima 👀

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 12/11/2025

HiCira.com is in closed beta right now, but we'll be soft launching next week. Exciting stuff! #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 10/11/2025

When you find out you have to do marketing #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 30/10/2025

Trying out Cursor's agent mode today. I didn't realize it had a Plan mode then a Build mode available. It just one shot 3 pages and 3 forms, made server actions, db changes, in under 60 seconds. 🤯

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 28/10/2025

New header image! Getting ready for launch day! HiCira.com

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 20/10/2025

It's not writing code today, it's marketing. #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 03/10/2025

AI search results are just SEO in a trench coat.

AI search results are just SEO summaries

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 22/09/2025

This weekend I spent $400 experimenting with AI ads. Here's the final ad I created and below you'll find which apps worked and which ones didn't (the last post created this video). #buildinpublic 🧵

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 21/08/2025

More brand enshitification, this time by Cracker Barrel. One has character and says something. The other would pass for one those generic labels on beer and crackers in the 80's.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 18/08/2025

Using Claude to write and debut an n8n workflow is such a productivity hack. I'm writing this one to help enrich 1700 leads with issues on their website for my agency craftedweb.to This would have taken me a day to do myself (having never used n8n before), but I have this almost done in 2 hours.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 18/08/2025

A little weekend break from the norm. A simple solid cherry spatula finished with mineral oil (Surrounded by some random mini peppers and cherry tomatoes I picked today). #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 13/08/2025

Oh man having it look for the best flights might be the best I've seen yet.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 13/08/2025

Should be interesting.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 31/07/2025

Hey #buildinpublic, having a hard time finding a domain for your next idea? Do this, add a Whois MCP server to Claude Desktop. Use a prompt like I did here, and have Claude verify if the domain idea is taken already. Just keep ripping till you have something you want. #ai

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 31/07/2025

I've seen this page twice today 😅

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 29/07/2025

I love this graphic from the Business of Product newsletter. Everyone talks Painkiller vs Vitamin. But a lot is missed. Many people think they have painkillers, but really built a Cough Syrup, helpful but not life saving.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 26/07/2025

Claude Code's task system looks promising. #ai #buildinpublic #devtools

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 24/07/2025

Task systems really do make Cursor 10x better. I love seeing this green checkmark.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 24/07/2025

Darn just outside my budget.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 21/05/2025

This is what founding a company feels like

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 01/05/2025

Which color theme do you prefer #buildinpublic? Lighter or Darker?

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 18/04/2025

The new o3 model is amazing at pictures analysis. With little to go by its final suggestion is about a mile from where I took this.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 08/04/2025

Technical founders will do anything but marketing and sales. Also... look at this new neon effect I figured out.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 07/04/2025

It's AI or the highway. Shopify's CEO, Tobias Lütke, released an internal memo saying embrace AI, and it goes for everyone at Shopify. 5 quick takeaways on what this means:

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 31/03/2025

Just shipped all new Solutions pages for AskJack.io. #buildinpublic Next up some AskJack vs ______ pages.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 27/03/2025

It's official, it used to be creation was what slowed you down. Not so much anymore. I could come up with hundreds of these in a day to test for AskJack.io #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 27/03/2025

Wow someone used AI to remake a Lord of the Rings trailer Studio Ghibli style. I would pay to watch this.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 26/03/2025

Just launched three brand new industry pages for AskJack.io. Startups aren't exactly an industry, but they're a different bread for sure. #buildinpublic Also just noticed my nav is broken in mobile 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 26/03/2025

OpenAI's new image capabilities in 4o are fantastic. I took a recent picture of my family and said "Make this into an illustrated cartoon of us".

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 20/03/2025

Big update to the AskJack.io website today. Completely revamped the design and lots of new product content. I'm still working on the new use case pages, verse pages, solution pages, and new blog posts. (aka lots to do still) What do you think #buildinpublic ?

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 17/03/2025

New integration animation for our marketing site. SVG animation. Created with AI prompting. Wild. #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 17/03/2025

Okay now now Grid Wars has cities! I used the same SVG creation with AI tricks I learned yesterday.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 17/03/2025

Looking good now! The Grid Wars map, full zoom and panning of the map area. Using Perlin noise to generate the land mass.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 16/03/2025

Off to a better start! Restarting the vibe coding thread from here.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 16/03/2025

Houston we can see something.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 16/03/2025

I'm now having Cursor create stub files for the rest of the project structure. So much typing saved!

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 16/03/2025

Creating website graphics, that portray your offering, but don't overwhelm with extra UI has always been a "send it to a designer" tasks. Until AI. I created these with a picture of my UI and told Claude to make and SVG. Then I tune it with prompts in Cursor. #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 16/03/2025

Which do you like better? #1 or #2? How come? (thanks!) #buildinpublic

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 13/03/2025

Goodbye Notion, nice knowing you. 🫡 We're now using AskJack for all our internal documentation. Before this we had Notion connected to our AskJack instance so we could use our AI search against it (in app and in Slack). This week's updates improved AskJack's document system and we won't go back!

A document in AskJack, get instant answers to all your work questions.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 12/03/2025

👋 Notion - We're using AskJack for all our internal documentation now. Before this we just connected AJ to our Notion so we could use our AI search against it. But this weeks release really improved our document system and now we can't stand the idea of having these core docs in two places.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 12/03/2025

New in AskJack! We've already give you instant answers across all your work docs and apps. But now you can get answers against just one document. For when you know the document your answer is in, but you don't want to sift through all 50 pages. See what else is new at www.askjack.io/changelog

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 11/03/2025

Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei "in 3 to 6 months AI is writing 90% of the code ... in 12 months we may be in a world where AI is essentially writing all of the code" 🤯 3 months ago I wouldn't have believed this. But in the past few weeks I've found Cursor+Claude 3.7 is writing 90% of my code. You?

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 10/03/2025

Just who's responsible when a bug is introduced when you were using Cursor to write your code?

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 06/03/2025

Goodbye Xnapper and hello CleanShot! Killer feature is being able to create a GIF screen recording. Like this one! (new copy answer feature in AskJack).

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 06/03/2025

I spent an hour vibe coding a voxel style villager resource game tonight. That may not look like much. But! 1. I've never made a game before, let alone used Three.js. 2. That was in one hour. 🤯 You can scroll around, zoom in, and zoom out. And generates the terrain procedurally.

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 28/02/2025

Checking to see if my co-founder reads the commit messages. 😅

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