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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Man, I totally underestimated the "plumbing" required to create a custom email sending feature that's inbox-friendly. This is for popinvoice.com, so that our customers can email invoices using their own "From" address.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

DeepSeek is now available in our open source web page summarizer Chrome extension, thanks to a new contribution. Get it here: github.com/farez/web-su... If you can code, please do contribute!

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Back on video again. Here's my latest post on whether AI is going to give us back some free time... youtu.be/ZLp_6uMCWPU?...

youtu.be

Is AI going to give us more free time?

YouTube video by Farez Rahman

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hatching a new feature for bunni.ai...

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yep. Looking at a few options, like Unstructured.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It's ok for simple text extraction but it's outlived it's purpose now. We're beyond MVP now and will transition to something more sophisticated for extraction.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

o1-mini and o1 are now available on bunni.ai. o1-mini is impressive. Same price as 4o but much more comprehensive answers. I can't really see the use of o1 yet for document research use case but included it in anyway. Hoping to discover some neat uses from users!

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Ah, no. I'm using Laravel/PHP on the backend, and that's using this library to extract text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler... But I'm migrating to a 3rd party service soon (possibly unstructured.io) so I can so do OCR.

en.wikipedia.org

Poppler (software) - Wikipedia

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If you're trying to understand how a particular piece of software or feature is put together, here's a neat way of "reverse engineering" it in Cursor: Include @codebase so that the AI has access to all of the code, and then ask it to summarise the flow, end to end.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's not too late to sell your Nazimobile (if you own one).

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is the simplest app I've ever built, that I (and some other users) still use regularly: websitemonitor.live. I haven't even changed the Laravel placeholder logo on it! And it's free to use - please help yourself.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The 2 parts I'm talking about:

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

But whether you're building an "AI startup" or simply using AI to build your business, it's a really exciting time to be building.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Of course there are risks to solo founders, which I think are: - Running out of money before finding product-market fit. - Succumbing to a highly stressful endeavour. - Tonnes more competition in a short space of time.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

These 2 parts from Sam Altman's Reflections article gets me excited to be in the AI space. Nobody really has a recipe to building a business with and for AI. Which gives solo founders and small teams a huge advantage. We can move faster than incumbents...

blog.samaltman.com

Reflections

The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective...

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

So far: - Our newsletter - Reddit Going to create lots of use case videos soon too.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Thanks Arunima. 100% agree on the AI voice. We had to use it because we didn't have a mic when launching the video! But yeah, it's time to replace it (we have one now!).

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

popinvoice.com/datepop

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Pricing experiment on my Notion date automation tool seems to be working well. Previous plan: $1 pay per use. New plan: $5 for 3 days of unlimited use. Result after 6 days: revenue has already exceeded the all-time total of previous plan.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Best testimonial ever? Same person submitted the product feedback 3 times. Top one is the latest one.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So I can understand why Raiza Martin and her team decided to go build something on their own, after an incredible home run with NotebookLM! Exciting times.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Nobody knows what next year, let alone "the future" looks like. Getting in now is the best way to shape it. My foundational belief is that every human being deserves to earn a living independently and through their own creativity. And I believe AI is going to help us do that.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"the opportunity to go build on your own, try something new, during this exciting time in technology" This is the same fire that burns inside me and plenty of other startup founders and indie makers.

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Farez @farez.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Are you posting daily on bsky?