iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 09/09/2026

Ok I couldn't help it! I used Astra to make a game! This is Neon shift, a futuristic crazy taxi inspired multiplayer game built with Three.JS and Colyseus I haven't had much time to polish yet but see if you can get the high score! Link 👇

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 25/11/2025

What it feels like to be a web developer this month

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 24/08/2025

Don't make this same mistake! This is what it looks like if build a B2B SaaS and you don't build Teams/Organisations functionality right at the beginning 😅

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 02/08/2025

Number one tip to get better results out of cursor/AI coding tools... After writing a big old prompt explaining what you want, always finish it "Do you understand the instructions and do you have any questions or suggestions?"

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 29/03/2025

Boss for my attempt at the @levels.io #vibejam is finally coming together It's a multiplayer pirate game, where you collect treasure and power-ups whilst battling other players Watch out of you are currently in the lead though! A giant octopus spawns and targets the lead player brutal ink attacks

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 03/02/2025

Holy moly we are at number 4! This is going so much better than we could have imagined. Can we we catch up number 3 bsky? 🔥🔥 www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t... #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 03/02/2025

Yayayayayyy!!! We have now over taken our last Product Hunt launch AND we are 6th!!! WAHOOO!!!! Common bsky!!! Do you reckon you we can get into the top 5??? #buildinpublic www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t...

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 03/02/2025

Haha we've just realised we up against OpenAI today but we are not that far behind! OpenAI 160 - Chat Thing 118! Come up bsky #buildinpublic can we take down the Goliath? www.producthunt.com/posts/chat-t...

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 03/02/2025

Wooo 76 upvotes already pretty happy with that start! How high can we get build in public bsky?!!! 🎉 #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 08/01/2025

I’ve just scheduled an email to go out to our subscribers about our Product Hunt Launch - doing some a/b testing with the subject line. What one do you think will do better? Also if you would like to follow us on Product Hunt you can find us here www.producthunt.com/products/cha... #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 07/01/2025

Getting ready for our next Product Hunt Launch 🚀 wahooo! We haven’t for a couple years and made some mistakes so trying to make sure we don’t do them twice! Has anyone else done one? Check out our silly pic hehe www.producthunt.com/products/cha... #buildinpublic #indiehacker #producthuntlaunch

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 07/01/2025

Turns out o1 is still pretty crap at chess! Just drawn with 4o in its first game 😅

A screenshot of the end result of a chess game between OpenAI 4o and o1

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 07/01/2025

Is OpenAI o1 good at chess? We've got it playing 4o currently here so will be interesting to see! llm-battle.chatthing.ai

The UI from the live chess game between 4o and o1

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 07/01/2025

Yay our AI support ticket bot is very happy with us this morning! No outstanding support requests so instead its told us to plan new features 🤣 #keeptheaioverlordshappy #buildinpublic

A screenshot from Slack showing a message from our AI powered support ticket bot. Every morning the bot will notify us about outstanding support tickets and which ones we should prioritise.

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 06/01/2025

Happy new year! We’re officially back in the office! I hope you all had lovely festivities? We had an amazing Christmas but then got taken down by flu for new years, can’t have it all though right?! Who’s ready for routine again or still wanting cheese and biscuits? #smallbusiness #webagency

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 20/12/2024

We've added scheduled tasks to Chat Thing so you can get your AI bots to run tasks on a schedule and its so useful! We are automating loads with this. For example we have a task that checks all open support tickets in Notion and then posts a summary into Slack as 7am each day. #ai #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 12/12/2024

It's just another ChatGPT wrapper...

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 11/12/2024

Found something that's really hard to prompt out of models today! Getting LLMs to output Slack's single asterisk *bold* text instead of standard markdown **bold** was harder than expected! In the end we've opted to post process the response to convert double ** to singles 🤣

A screenshot showing an AI slack bot incorrectly using ** to create bold text

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 10/12/2024

Wow we've closed 320 PRs on Chat Thing this year! I knew we shipped a lot but that was still more than I was expecting! #buildinpublic

A screenshot showing the number of closed PRs for our project Chat Thing this year

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 06/12/2024

This week, I've been revisiting something we should have looked at ages ago: our Chat Thing stats dashboard. We've got loads of info, but we've not been using it effectively. Bit silly, right? #buildinpublic #saas #indiehacker #chatthing #ai #aidevelopment

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 29/11/2024

Having an AI assistant right in Slack is so useful! One of our devs noticed an email got put in spam and dumped the gobbledygook email headers into Slack to so we could debug it. Its all alien to me, but I asked our GPT-4 bot to take a look and it deciphered it for me! #buildinpublic

A screenshot of a conversation in Slack where the user asks a slack bot whats going on in some email headers.

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 29/11/2024

Does any one else put in loads of effort to grind out the last 10% of a feature, think you're done and celebrate... then you remember you need to write docs which is gunna take almost as long as writing the code! Thats me today 🤣 SaaS is a lot of work for small teams! #buildinpublic

A screenshot of Strapi CMS with text being added as markdown in a field

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 26/11/2024

We could get used to this view 😍😍

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 25/11/2024

It certainly is meet Ajax!

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 25/11/2024

That’s a cool pic and that trip looks soo good! We’ve got a van too and have wanted to do a European trip but haven’t had the chance yet so just done trips around the uk. This was from a trip around Wales 😀

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 25/11/2024

Woo keen to see the camper progress! Here’s our converted transit van on a beach :)

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 25/11/2024

We’ve got a few days off work for our daughter’s 2nd birthday! Not a bad place to wake up 🌅 😍

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 24/11/2024

A combination of all of the above sounds perfect! Pet pictures are great too here’s Ajax!

Ajax the beagle sat on decking looking pensive

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 24/11/2024

Anyone else quite like a rainy walk? Or are we mad? 😂

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 23/11/2024

Ok Bluesky that’s the perfect number of followers no more please 🙏 don’t mess it up!

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 23/11/2024

Awesome!! It’s Ark Nova for us the weekend!

A picture of the Arc Nova board game on a table setup and ready to play

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 22/11/2024

Whoop just wrapped up a big old PR for Chat Thing. Happy Friday! #buildinpublic

A screenshot of a PR for a feature revolving around building a Slack bot integration

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 22/11/2024

Ahh yeah awesome here we go. Was really ways to setup with a custom app!

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 22/11/2024

This little project was made in 2016 and was the first time I felt like I had made it as a dev! It got featured on the Chrome experiments site which at the time was a huge goal of mine! You can still play with it here jozefm.dev/petridish/ although it runs a lot quicker now than then! #javascript

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 22/11/2024

Has any one figured out how to get their bsky follower count on a LaMetric clock yet? Or do I need to make an app? #buildinpublic #indiehackers

A picture of a la metric clock showing an x follower count

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 21/11/2024

Aww cheerios cute! Ajax says hi 👋

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 21/11/2024

Does anyone else use silly debugging messages while developing? Just got to remember to remove them before pushing to prod but that adds to the frill of it all no? #buildinpublic

A screenshot of a conversation with a slackbot that is in development with the slack bot responding "Fish poo"

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 21/11/2024

Here's a little warning to everyone thinking of using the Claude API. It's still so flakey! We alerts in our Slack from all the model providers and look at it! Nothing but Claude errors! Its a shame because Claude our favourite but its hard to rely on when its this flakey. #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 19/11/2024

Yeah definitely worth trying! I haven't switched from cursor yet but might do! Its free for two weeks, then pro is $10 a month

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 17/11/2024

Ajax the beagle says hi!

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 17/11/2024

Cor blimey! Nearly half a million visitors to Chat Thing in the last month! This started as a scrappy weekend project, and we never dreamed of numbers like these. We haven’t grown as quickly as we’d hoped this year, but these stats give us a proper boost. #buildinpublic #indiehackers

A picture with the text “wow look at that” and Gem with her younger out doing the Chaka hand gesture.

A screenshot of cloudflare analytics for chat thing showing the total number of unique visitors.

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 16/11/2024

Does any ones else @prisma.io migrations folder look like this?

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 16/11/2024

We’ve got a living pomodoro timer and she’s our two year old daughter 😂 She’s having a nap now so I’ve got between 1-2 hours to smash out a feature! Let’s go! #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 15/11/2024

AI says the webpack logo as an animal would look like this!

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 15/11/2024

We are close to releasing an early version of a new SaaS product and this one is going to support "teams" from the get go! We've learned the hard way that adding teams to a SaaS with lots of users retrospectively is a massive pain in the bum! #buildinpublic

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 15/11/2024

No hosting provider has a nicer dashboard than railway.app prove me otherwise!

A screenshot of the Railway dashboard showing multiple interconnected services

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Pixelhop @pixelhop.io · 15/11/2024

Perks of running a business in Cornwall

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