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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 02/07/2026

Finally completely free of Vercel. Long live @coolify.io

Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 16/06/2026

AI has shown that there really are two different types of developers. There are product builders - they thrive with AI and there are artists - they hate AI with a passion. For one it was always about the goal, for the other it was about the craft.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 14/06/2026

Officially launched: www.tradingcardtrends.com A Pokemon market analysis tool, find any card, see how it has performed. We also calculate a market index, to show how the market is performing in its entirety! Set indezes also included. And the best thing: All for free for the users :)

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Pokémon Card Market Index, Prices & Top Movers — Trading Card Trends

Live Pokémon card market index, weekly top gainers and losers, and set performance — free market intelligence across 80,000+ cards, updated weekly from eBay sales data.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 13/06/2026

I've been gone for a long time. Some reasons: - Bsky felt empty compared to X, but I didnt wanna go back - I felt most indie hackers are building for indie hackers and felt that as disingenious - I wasn't motivated to work on my own stuff, burned out Now I'm building first, doing social second

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 28/07/2025

Thank you to anyone who has listened to @codeandconquer.fm in the past ♥️ Right now I'm not actively recording new episodes, but this is still a great milestone.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 12/06/2025

When you have a development issue that is so complex and rare that you start watching youtube videos that are just text and code, you know you're in the deep end.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 14/04/2025

It's incredible how many people have no idea how designing a system for security works. Blog posts detailling how to expose ports to the internet (without any restrictions). Installations that expose 3000 ports to the wide web. Be safe out there. Any idiot can write blog posts.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 13/04/2025

Traded another 12-15 hours of my work for a Squarespace subscription. I was tried of paying that money, when I'm perfectly capable of building my own website. So here's to a new and clean icebearlabs.com :D

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Ice Bear Labs

Freelance software development and consulting services

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 11/04/2025

Is the thing your doing absolutely necessary? No? Is it enjoyable? Also no? You should probably not do it anymore.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 30/03/2025

When you wanted a really tiny app to help keep your plants alive 🪴 Now you have a Turborepo with frontend, backend, database and MinIO fileserver, getting proxied through a built-in nginx and deployed via Docker Compose 🤯 Thanks to @coolify.io at least I don't need to worry about hosting.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 24/03/2025

Anyone experiencing the @codeandconquer.fm page not loading right now, we're moving to @cloudflare.social so it might be done for a while, until new DNS settings take a hold. Getting rid of anything Vercel to cancel the subscription.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 22/03/2025

My biggest regret in life is not buying my mothers house when she sold it in 2021 when we had like 1.5% interest rates…

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 19/03/2025

Time is an infuriating resource. You are given an indefinite amount. You HAVE to spend it and you can only spend the same amount all the time. You cannot save it. And you never know when yours runs out. 86400 seconds today. Spend them wisely.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 03/03/2025

Just so anyone still interested in @codeandconquer.fm has heard anything from me. I’m considering pausing the podcast. Leaving Twitter hit my motivation engaging with the community pretty hard. Still hacking but more with just me and my partner. Will see how it continues..

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 26/02/2025

Is there a tutorial / guide for GenAI, Docker and / or AWS Cloud Development that is built like @joshwcomeau.com's courses? I'd really like to learn but it needs to be engaging, otherwise my neurodiverse brain doesn't listen anymore.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 11/02/2025

Took out the new camera for a little photo walk and my camera buddy snapped a great picture of me :)

Me holding my Fuji X-T5 making photos. Background is the winter beach of the baltic sea on Fehmarn island.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 10/02/2025

Not gonna lie, it gets harder every year watching the Superbowl from Europe :D

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 07/02/2025

A new episode of @codeandconquer.fm is live 🚀 I talked to @janu.lol about starting an MVP agency from scratch, letting your comfy full-time job go and the challenge of doing business in Germany 🇩🇪 Listen to the full episode below 👇

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 03/02/2025

Logged out of Twitter on all devices, so I'm not tempted to look anymore. So if you guys message me there, I'll probably not see it anymore.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 25/01/2025

If you need a great podcast listen for your weekend, me and @alexsuzuki.com are ready for you 😎

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 24/01/2025

Great new podcast episode of „Code and Conquer“ today with @alexsuzuki.com 🚀 Our topics: 😎 Alex quit his software agency and went back to flying solo 🤯 How to handle complex barcode technology 🏙️ Handling big enterprise customers and their demands Check it out below 👇

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 23/01/2025

New podcast episode with @alexsuzuki.com coming tomorrow 👀 Who should I talk to next? Tag your favorite indie hacker :)

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Rafal ★ AI Wrapper King @rafal.fyi · 22/01/2025

how about we post what we want instead of pleasing an algo?

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 20/01/2025

Muting all the words. Nothing that happened today is telling us anything we didn’t know.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 19/01/2025

Life goals to live like this

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Annedevj @annedevj.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The freedom and privilege to be able to work on our projects is incredible - and I try to be grateful for this every day It's easy to get deep into the business bubble and forget why you're even doing this in the first place: being happier, freer... So enjoy the journey as well

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 14/01/2025

We’re all often about business, making it big, earning that cash. Pause a while between those thoughts and think about how you woke up today. You’re alive! You’re breathing! Celebrate being alive once in a while ☀️

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 12/01/2025

Survived my first flight in 8 years. I’ve been avoiding flying for almost a decade. Not gonna lie, wasn’t the best experience. Still glad I now get to enjoy my vacation ☀️

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 10/01/2025

How do you grow from $7 to $10K MRR as a solo founder? 📈 @dmytrokrasun.com spills the truth about growth, customer support, anxiety, production positioning 🤯 And why building a 'boring' API business might be your smartest move 💡 Listen to the newest "Code and Conquer" episode now 👇

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 10/01/2025

Great talk with @janu.lol today, thanks for taking the time :D New Code and Conquer podcast episode recorded ✅

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Dan @d4m1n.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Many people in the community advocate for shipping things fast and fixing things as you go. But I think quite a lot stop at shipping fast and never do the other part. There is an insane amount of buggy indie software that never gets patches.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 17/12/2024

What's the best comprehensive guide on AI right now? Looking for something that goes into detail about LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Chaining, Multi-Agent Workflows etc. Best would be - very german - if it has a certification at the end... German businesses love those.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 16/12/2024

What's a good web scraping api with a generous free tier or a budget pricing tier (like $10-20/m) that you'd recommend? Trying to scrape a few job sites to automate finding new projects for myself.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 13/12/2024

Not many people have sold their startup ... just to buy it back a few years down the line for a DISCOUNT 🤯🤑 In today's episode of Code and Conquer we talk to @steveridout.bsky.social about pricing, launching early and the rise of AI in language learning. Check it out 👇

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 12/12/2024

Claude just coded a tool I always wanted to code in my free time at work but didn't ever have the time to strongly think about it. And it took it exactly 5mins and 3 tries to get it right. Software Development will be so different in 5 years.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 05/12/2024

Anyone needs a starter template for their muted words on BlueSky, here's a list that filters pretty well.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 05/12/2024

There's nothing more demotivating than working with people that have literally no idea what they're doing... Current freelance project swapped out experienced QA engineers with "off-shore developers", that don't know what a null value is.

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 05/12/2024

A blast from the past today: The "500-mile email" story reveals how a server misconfiguration caused emails to fail beyond a 500-mile radius. 🤪 A consultant’s unintended downgrade of Sendmail led to a timeout issue that matched the speed-of-light travel distance. www.ibiblio.org/harris/500mi...

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The case of the 500-mile email

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 04/12/2024

This year has been hard for many reasons. One great reason to keep going was my podcast and my amazing guests 🚀 Thanks to all of the people that checked it out and THANK YOU to the 13 people where I was the #1 Podcast ♥️ Of to another year of Code and Conquer ☀️

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 02/12/2024

Founding a company in Germany, in the media industry and #1 marketing channel is word of mouth 🤯 @lukashermann.dev is doing indie hacking on hard mode! 🕹️ We had a great talk about it on the "Code and Conquer" podcast, check out the new episode down below 👇

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 28/11/2024

Does anyone have a tech podcasters / interview podcasters list I can follow? :) I might have one or two products where I need beta testers and would just love to provide value for free in exchange for feedback!

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 29/11/2024

Launching today 🚀 We're launching @repodcasted in Beta on Uneed to see what people think. I'd be very grateful for every upvote we could get from you guys. I need all you guys' energy today please Link in the comment 👇

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Tobias Arweiler @icebearlabs.com · 29/11/2024

I just launched our product on Uneed.best and immediately our payment broke in production.. So how's your Friday going?

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Jeremie C. @jeremieca.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Join the SaaS Makers List Reply with one of your SaaS url to join the list ! 🚀 #buildinpublic

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