kamphey

Making a thermal printer app to play with the idea of a screen-free tech-enabled device.

https://rippn.app

Might sound silly but I LOVE: Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections. They single handedly made me interested in how things were made, how things were on the inside. How things were engineered.

saw this quick yt video and thought. omg. how could I wake up better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxg31QFRIL0

Did we ever code?

Help people. Just make sure you're focused on helping people with software. Doing something useful for them. Doesn't matter who/what coded it. were we really writing code anyways? Coding languages are abstractions.

Just get to the heart of what people want. Talk to people and help them. Most humans on Earth, at least, aren't technical.

I find that internal frustrations are solved by external validation. Seeing someone happy and joyful from my work, makes it all worth it.

Ask the customer for a referral to someone who has the same pain point. Let them reach out to your future customers for you. What you should do is just talk to users. People who are actually using what you're building.

If you're searching for more, there's search points all around their role, their pain point, their industry. Find very specific words that people with your pain point actually use to search. Not just "best app to do X" but really what are they posting about and how do they talk in public? IF not then you'll have to do some cold emailing, cold DM's, You'll have to talk to people.

Get on their laptops and install something for them or sit down at their desk and see what they are doing and how you can help.

Wait is this a joke? I think it's incredibly useful to have these basic 5 heuristics. I've been trying to wrangle the agents to make very simple deletions and text edits quicker, faster. But just saying "go faster on these edits" isn't doing it.

I used to have a single dashboard of all the users in my admin page of my site/startup. Now I've vibe coded a bunch of charts, and actionable tasks I can take from the admin dashboard. It's become my command center for my site/startup.