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Caspar von Wrede

@casparwre.de
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I am a solo developer making keepthescore.com, leaderboarded.com and more #indiehacker #buildinpublic

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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 11/09/2026
I made a family calendar app that you can show on a Raspberry Pi or any other screen you have lying around. It will grab your Google Calendar feed and turn it into a nice dashboard with a single Anthropic API request. It does this daily. Check it out. github.com/caspii/dinky... #buildinpublic
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GitHub - caspii/dinkydash: The digital family calendar for screens you already own — a TV, an old tablet, or a Raspberry Pi. Claude writes it fresh every morning.
The digital family calendar for screens you already own — a TV, an old tablet, or a Raspberry Pi. Claude writes it fresh every morning. - caspii/dinkydash
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 28/04/2026
I added a programatic SEO play to my product: Five auto-updating “Top X” ranking pages, pulling fresh data from the GitHub API every Monday. One of the rankings is the top Python ML Libraries leaderboarded.com/rankings/git... #python #buildinpublic
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Claude Code is going to do to software development what the internet did to journalism.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 09/02/2026
The weather app on Apple Watch is just terrible: slow, hard to parse and only works half the time. Why was this released and why has it not been fixed #apple
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 26/01/2026
Read more here: keepthescore.com/blog/posts/h...
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How One Hockey Mom Streams 30+ Youth Hockey Games Solo Each Season Using OBS and Live Scoreboards
See how Summer, an electrical engineer and hockey mom, streams 30+ youth hockey games per season completely solo—managing video, play-by-play commentary, and live scoring while saving families…
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 08/10/2025
Raise your hand if you allow your coding agent to access your production DB Me: 👋 #buildinpublic
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 22/09/2025
I am splitting my product into two 🔪 To find out why, read this casparwre.de/blog/splitti... #buildinpublic
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 19/07/2025
NEW FEATURE: you can now use emoji next to the ranks to make your leaderboard (even more) fun! 🏆
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 11/07/2025
🚀 New feature: the Badminton Scoreboard now has automatic scoring progression! Scores update as points are won — no manual input needed. Try it now 👉 keeptheScore.com #badminton #scoreboard #automation #keeptheScore
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 07/07/2025
🏈 Football season is coming! Make your stream look pro with a live scoreboard overlay in OBS. No coding. No stress. Just drag, drop, and play. 🎥 Watch the quick setup guide: keepthescore.com/blog/posts/o... 🧪 Try it free: keepthescore.com/football-sco... #OBS #StreamingTips #FootballStreaming
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Online Scoreboard for Streaming - OBS, Streamlabs & Live Events
Professional online scoreboards for sports streaming and live events. Works seamlessly with OBS, Streamlabs, XSplit. Real-time updates, free to start.
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 07/07/2025
Negative customer feedback is good. Negative feedback is negative, sure, but the fact that they cared enough to tell you is a great sign. If they didn't care, if they didn't find other things valuable and desirable, they would just cancel.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 17/06/2025
Writing tests used to be essential and painful. Now writing tests is essential and easy. You have no excuse.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 15/06/2025
I made an app. You take a picture with your phone and it tells you how much it costs. costcam.app
costcam.app
CostCam - Instant Price Estimates from Photos
Take a photo of any item and get instant price estimates powered by AI. Find out how much things cost with just a snap.
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 30/05/2025
🚨 New Feature Alert! 🚨 Our basketball scoreboard just got even better — it now supports a **timer with tenths of a second**! Perfect for those nail-biting moments when every millisecond counts. 🏀⏱️ Check it out and take your game to the next level! \#Basketball #Scoreboard #GameOn #SportsTech
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 19/05/2025
Well played, Bing
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 15/05/2025
These guys work so hard
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 23/04/2025
Black cows with white stripe and white lighthouse with black stripe 🤷
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 19/04/2025
User feedback. This one is going to be hard.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 10/04/2025
Reminder to self: never wear skin colored leggings
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 07/04/2025
Just released 🚀 It's now possible to enable signups for a leaderboard. This lets participants join and manage their own profiles on leaderboards.
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Self-Service Participant Signup for Competitions
Learn about Keepthescore.com's participant signup feature that lets participants join and manage their own profiles on leaderboards. Perfect for teams, sports leagues, classroom competitions, and…
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 03/04/2025
We've made further improvements to our baseball scoreboard. Auto-resetting has now been implemented. Give it a try! #baseball #BaseballScoreboard #BaseballSeason
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 03/04/2025
You know it's over the moment a company thinks this is acceptable on their main landing page.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 27/03/2025
I've had to learn some painful lessons over the past few months, especially around positioning and landing page copy. For instance: changing ONE word in my H1 reduces signups by almost 50%. 🤯 #buildinpublic
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 18/03/2025
Vibe coding is the new #nocode
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 13/03/2025
This is pretty special
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 27/01/2025
😂
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 27/01/2025
Content rots. You change your UI, features, labels, pricing --> your content is no longer up to date. And it gets worse over time. It takes me a lot of ongoing effort to fix this. One thing that helps is having all my content (esp blog posts) stored as markdown in the main repo. #buildinpublic
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 23/01/2025
I just spent 3 hours debugging an HTML input, only to finally find out that I had placed it outside of the "form" element.
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 22/01/2025
We've added an extra button to flip the home and away teams on your football scoreboard. Give it a whirl! #Football #LiveScores #MatchDay #FootballUpdates #GoalTracker #Soccer #FanZone #MatchHighlights #SportsUpdates
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 22/01/2025
This is definitely a first. A customer wants to know when I'm going to deploy the feature I'm building, so he can include the date in the book he's publishing! 🤡 #noestimates #buildinpublic
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 21/01/2025
If all else fails, eat
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 17/01/2025
AI generated text often includes unusual words at a much higher frequency. I just searched my marketing content for the word "elevate" and was horrified by how often it occurred. It's another clue that the content agency I paid was generating texts wholesale using AI. #buildinpublic #seo
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keepthescore.com @keepthescore.com · 15/01/2025
**⚾ New Scoreboard Features! ⚾** Baseball just got better! Our scoreboards now let you **customize fonts and font sizes** for clearer, more personalized displays. Upgrade your game day experience today! 🎉 #Baseball #ScoreboardUpdate #GameDay
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 13/01/2025
That's a first. My payment provider (Paddle.com) just had an outage. Some users paid and were billed three times in a row 😥 Here is the Paddle status page: statusgator.com/services/pad...
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 08/01/2025
I use an online tool called F5Bot to alert me when my product is mentioned on Reddit. It works flawlessly and often leads to wonderful interactions like this one
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 07/01/2025
Our dog met Mr Fox today
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 06/01/2025
GitHub, a company last valued at $7.5 billion, uses javascript alert(). Don't overthink it! #webdev
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 03/01/2025
Last year I spent 657 USD on stock photos for my content 🤬 I thought AI would solve this problem, but I'm still waiting. The quality is just not there. I often spend up to 15 mins iterating on an image and then give up. Also, AI images are everywhere and they feel "cheap". *sigh*
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 02/01/2025
I tried out seobotai.com for a month. Technically a super impressive product. Very slick. Intriguing UI which works well. Unfortunately the content was not good enough. Once again I found myself rewriting AI content and thinking: this is not saving me any time at all. #seo #buildinpublic
seobotai.com
SEO Bot - fully autonomous "SEO Robot" with AI agents for Busy Founders
SEO Bot features - Programmatic SEO - AI generated blog - AI linking - Auto keyword research - Acts like a SEO Robot
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 31/12/2024
TIL that Google Business profiles do not support images in "webp" format -- a format that Google invented 🤯
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 30/12/2024
My product now has a bluesky profile 🎉
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 28/12/2024
Can’t believe there were like 6 months last year when I thought I would have to use LinkedIn as my primary social media platform
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is supposed to be the calm before the stupid but it’s already getting very stupid
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 19/12/2024
"Server-side rendering was not invented with Node. What Node brought to the table was the convenience of writing your shitty div soup in the very same language that was invented in 10 days for the sole purpose of pissing off Java devs everywhere." blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a...
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A Rant about Front-end Development
I am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn't about you personally. It's about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choi...
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 10/12/2024
I made a terrible mistake and deleted my app‘s production database by accident 🙈☠️🤬 Thankfully, it was 4 years ago. Still, it’s a good yarn. Read the full story here: casparwre.de/blog/deletin...
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I deleted the production database by accident 💥
This is pure disaster porn. It’s the story of how I drank some wine and then managed to delete the production database. Thankfully there was a backup.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 05/12/2024
Here's some nice insights on my business (and some embarrassing childhood photos) #buildinpublic www.founderoo.co/posts/keep-t...
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Keepthescore.com · Caspar von Wrede
From side project to $120K ARR: How Caspar hit 500K monthly website visitors with SEO alone.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 04/12/2024
Do you prefer Backend or frontend? I became a full stack dev (at the age of 41) so I have an opinion: I prefer backend. Why? Your work is much easier to test and you can add a totally new feature with less than 50 lines of code.
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 27/11/2024
My bootstrapped product, Keepthescore.com, now has over 100.000 registered users. Of course, this is a vanity metric, but still noteworthy. 🍰 I launched without a login and kept it that way for 4 years! I wrote a post about it which is worth reading: casparwre.de/blog/launchi... #buildinpublic
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 24/10/2023
Can't be sure, but The Surfaris may have been a one-hit wonder
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Caspar von Wrede @casparwre.de · 11/10/2023
ChatGPT has not been giving good results this week. Loads of mistakes. Are you seeing this too?
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