Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 7d ago
I don't have a ton of features planned. Randomisation is one I've thought of before, but ultimately rejected because it's a thing I've played with in the past and never liked. I dunno if you remember an app called Urbans
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
As noted elsewhere, the website was made with the assistance of AI. I designed it myself in Canva, used AI to generate the HTML/CSS, but I designed it myself. The app itself is 100% hand-coded by me, though if you consider some of the
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Ah, yes, that makes sense! I think that's a great solution. I think perhaps one sort of semantic/slight difference is that Holler is hyper-local. If you live in LA and your friend lives in London, they obviously aren't going
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Not sure I understand. Can you elaborate?
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Ah, Foursquare was so much fun. Definitely inspired this, except this is a little more private -- only your explicitly-added friends get to see your hollers. I spent a lot of time thinking about what a "public" feed might look lik
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Thank you for trying! Sadly for ease of use but excellently for privacy reasons, Apple isn't very nice about giving names. It's just something we have to work around.
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Yes! You get it! That's awesome. This is basically "comment what you want to do on a FB group and see who shows up" as an app. You got it exactly.
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Sort of but not really? As someone else pointed out, there's pressure in group chats to reply. This explicitly avoids that. Also, let's say you want to go to a park for a picnic, and you have 100 friends. Which 100 friends are you
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Ha, yeah. It's a fox with a speech bubble, because foxes live in hollers. Plus my daughter loves foxes :)
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Right. I think you're missing my point a little bit. To put it a little more clearly: if you're marketing and getting zero leads, then you're marketing at the wrong folks. If business owners outsource their websites to agenci
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Yes!
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by Jemaclus 11d ago
Privacy is definitely a goal. I'll update privacy policy for sure. Part of the deal is that only the people you've added explicitly as friends can see your hollers. There's no "public feed." One of the things that r
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by Jemaclus 12d ago
Yeah, I get that. My thinking is that I'd rather go do something fun by myself than sit at home because I couldn't coordinate something or because someone else didn't want to do my thing. This weekend, for example, another co
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by Jemaclus 12d ago
Thanks! I came up with the color palette and the overall design. To be totally honest, I had AI do the HTML/CSS, as frontend is not my specialty, but I drew up the main design in Canva first and spent a lot of time with Claude to get i
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by Jemaclus 12d ago
I'm working on a real-life social app called Holler ( https://justhollerapp.com ). I'm an introvert and socially anxious, but I do enjoy hanging out with my friends. I just HATE the invitation-and-coordination game. If s
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by Jemaclus 13d ago
If it costs you nothing to maintain, keep it. But to be honest, it sounds like you haven't found your product-market fit. Couple of questions: 1. Why do you think many business owners would use it? 2. Who is your target audience? 3. Wh
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by Jemaclus 1mo ago
I guess I'd turn the question around to you: what do you want to see in release notes that you don't already see? What information do you feel is missing? From my personal experience, the context of the fix lives in a dozen differ
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Next question.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
I was also skeptical, but I started measuring quality (I'm using rework as a rough metric) and quantity (PR throughput), and I've found that, on average, LLMs are 60% worse at writing code (meaning they rework at a rate 60% higher
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
The question is what your tolerance to this kind of thing is. If the job is fundamentally changing underneath you, then you need to ask yourself if this is still a job you want to keep. If the answer is no, then you find another one. If you
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Right. But OP's question isn't "do you need a chef?" the question OP posed is more akin to "why should chefs use knives when they have blenders?" or "why should I build an IKEA bookshelf myself when I can
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Sure. But this is a little pedantic, no? Let's go with your analogy: you would hire contractors to build a house, but not to put an IKEA bookshelf together. You would hire a professional chef to cook a five course meal, but not to heat
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Conversely, imagine only requiring carpenters to know how to use a chainsaw.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Yes, exactly.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
I mean, it's the same idea, no? You hire contractors to build your house, but not to put together an IKEA bookshelf.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
It's like any other tool. Use it when you need it. We don't insist that HVAC installers use hand-powered drills to "feel closer to the work," but we also don't insist that they use battery-powered drills and impact
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by Jemaclus 5mo ago
Leaving aside the conflict of interest here ("EDA bad, workflows good, buy DBOS workflows"), this is a significant straw man. The author more or less picked the worst example of event-driven architecture, then says, "See? It&
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by Jemaclus 5mo ago
Ah, but you're talking about something else: hardware is quite different from software. Once your machine is out in the wild, you can't update it remotely. But with software, shipping MVPs and iterating is not only possible, it&#x
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by Jemaclus 5mo ago
Hey, this is very cool and creative! I like it a lot! Great job!
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by Jemaclus 6mo ago
I guess my question to you would be: does it matter if they're using AI? I don't think anyone in 2026 would criticize a candidate for using a calculator, and Googling syntax and so on hasn't been forbidden in any interview I&

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