ClarityText.com B2B messaging app

We don’t believe that broadcasting on a newsfeed is the final form of professional social media.

We want to create a platform where people are encouraged to be useful and available, as opposed to compete on short-form attention.

Some databases like @convex.dev tell you to save their mdc file in cursor rules. It makes a big difference.

A thread of co-location programming patterns.

Fixed a bug: After changing a profile picture, your picture as a messages author was breaking.

Your profile picture can successfully be changed in production now.

ClarityText now has emoji's

ClarityText now has threads. Create a space to chat and add threads for your messages.

Build a discoverable, searchable knowledge base over time.

Fall in Love with the Problem
by Uri Levine
First chapter is "Fall in Love with the Problem, not the solution"

2 and 1/2 minute demo of ClarityText, a chat space platform designed for marketing professional products.

In a Slack-like chat experience,
1) invite prospective customers,
2) generate SEO-optimized webpages out of your messages,
3) enable an AI to turn your messages into a knowledge base over time.

I've Never Told This Story Before... YouTube video by Neil Patel

Neil Patel made a video on his career story, describing his thinking at each pivotal point.

I thought some highlights were:
1) at 16 years old, got a $5,000 consulting contract
2) VC backed crazyegg 2.0 failed after class action lawsuit
3) He hires people who have worked for competitors

So, the app might cause a race condition between multiple vendors. Jamal breaks down how to avoid such a race condition.

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A modern tech stack almost always has different vendors for different purposes. For example, ClarityText uses Convex for a database and Clerk for user identity.

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Authentication Best Practices: Convex, Clerk and Next.js Authentication issues in real-time applications can cause security risks, especially when client-side queries run before validation. Ensuring authenti...

@codingwithjamal.bsky.social from the ClarityText engineering team authored this blog post on how to authenticate users in a tech stack of:

- Next.js
- @convex.dev
- Clerk

stack.convex.dev/authenticati....

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