posts like this are why i visit HN daily!!!

thanks for sharing your knowledge; can’t wait to try out your voice plugin

Same!

Feel free to file a gh issue if you have problems with the voice plugin

yes, totally. AI-luddites see this as whimsy, but it's actually wizard-level power of abstractions and context ascension. if u know u know

deep listening... the willingness to observe and feel without needing to judge or react!!!!

this is a lazy take. all software has bugs and defects.

part of what we do, as developers is to learn. to have an open mind to new tools and technologies.

these tools are… different, they’re changing the world (fast), and worth trying to understand. your mental rigidity to doing things “the right way” will hold you back and limit your growth. the world is changing. are you?

Those tools are massively overhyped and hemorrhaging money by the second. Such a shame so many people are so blind as to not be able to take things with some realism and a non biased POV. They're great, yeah, they help for a lot of things, some people really "vibe" with that kind of workflow, good for them.

Everytime you "prompt" and you "vibe" you're not "changing with the world", you're using copious amounts of energy on very expensive hardware that you would never, in your lifetime, would be able to use if it wasn't backed by trillions in VC funding. Don't believe me? Try to match the performance of a current model with local hardware, report back with how much that costs in hardware and energy.

They're all in the stage A of enshittification, the bait phase. You're willingly making yourself reliant on a tool that eventually will be uncostable for any individual, and only affordable for big orgs.

If the job of a developer is to "learn, and have an open mind to new tools and technologies", and "my mental rigidity to doing things "the right way" will hold me back and limit my growth", then I don't want to be an engineer. Because one thing is to experiment, and another one is to, pardon the expression, suck off any new technology as the new epitome of anything. I don't want to be a "developer" with no criteria. Call me an engineer instead, I do things "the right way", and I don't fall prey to fashion under the guise of "growth".

in and through (it's what we do)

what’s the difference (asking for a friend)?

Vibe coding is going with the LLM flow, fixing forward, not planning too much, not looking under the hood.

Professional work is planned, purposeful, detail orientated.

is social the only way you are doing distribution for these projects or are you doing something else?

beyond posting on niche subreddits, what has been your recipe for getting eyeballs?

do you already have a ton of twitter followers?

I have 200 followers on twitter and get barely any like/comments on my posts so X is not my main distribution. Reddit gets decent views but I don't think I get many PAID users from it anyways.

I think honestly 80% of my users come from my domain name giving me a huge SEO boost. I knew people who need my product would search "AEO Check" or "AEO Checker" hence I named my domain aeochecker.ai, a week after I published my site i was already ranking top 5 in this keyword (also because it was very low competition)

IME the competitiveness of results is probably a much bigger factor, considering exact-match domains are a very old SEO trick and Google doesn't reward them (it penalizes them, actually). "AEO" is a brand new concept so congrats on finding a new wave! Double down on SEO if that's working for you. It's hard enough finding 1 channel that works. The fact that you hit $500 MRR on the open web is actually pretty impressive, and you can likely scale significantly if you're aggressive about growth. Good luck!

Oh didn't know about that, perhaps you're right the keyword was just very low competition. Thanks for the advice, will hard focus on growth now trying to find other channels!

My advice was actually the opposite. It's harder to take a new channel from 0-1 than it is to take an existing channel from 1-2. so in my experience it's better to double down on what's working. only branch out to new channels when you have the resources, or you've maxed out your existing channels. FWIW I don't think your channel is just SEO, it's also content marketing like this HN post. Keep it up!

Thanks! I do really wonder though if content marketing like this post, or other posts on reddit actually bring any Paid users, which is what I'm trying to focus on. Because I see my viewership skyrocket when i do posts on reddit yet I get the same amount of Paid users in these days as the days I did 0 posts for like 2 weeks straight...

I want to start doing paid advertisements and maybe try to rank for more competitive keywords with google ads. I'm very new to ads though so I don't know if I'll have much success

yes, and we all need a good reminder every once in a while of how we can act with humility and integrity!