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• Tech lead at an AI Startup • Open-sourcing all I build these days • Writing about it at http://buildsharerepeat.com

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Yeah, if you're used to writing tickets for engineers your choice now becomes 'do I hand this off to a human or an AI' for some of the tasks – and that can be fun too

13.01.2026 13:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It gets interesting when a lot of context across different parts of a system is required. We usually hold these in our heads when developing, but very subconsciously. Giving the LLM all the right context is still hard.

13.01.2026 13:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You haven't missed much and are spot on :)
A lot of hype these days, but other parts of coding with AI is actually *a lot* easier than doing it by hand. I think I'll never again code a Slack integration for example, just because it's so simple for an LLM to one-shot these known patterns (OAuth flow)

13.01.2026 13:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Three LLMs in a trenchcoat On the importance of establishing guidelines for development teams in the age of AI.

Interesting change happening at work, where reviewing all the code that's so easy to produce these days is apparently becoming the real challenge.

buildsharerepeat.substack.com/p/three-llms...

13.01.2026 12:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New question I ask myself in code reviews: is my feedback going to help this person grow, or just generate a better prompt?

13.01.2026 11:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finally recording a new ep for the pod right now ⚡️

17.11.2025 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Still sick and voice won't allow a podacst ep this weekend. On a positive note, Linear integration is working. Even two-way, so Feedbackview sends back a notice to the user when a ticket is closed ⚡️

08.11.2025 18:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Started working on a Linear integration, to automatically create tickets from incoming user feedback and bug reports, based on some config rules 🔥

05.11.2025 19:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, true. Going to be interesting to find the right balance of what feedback should open a ticket at all :)

04.11.2025 11:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GitHub Copilot agent – Changelog Linear changelog - New updates and improvements to Linear.

4. PR gets merged
5. Linear closes ticket automatically
6. Feedbackview notifies customer autoamtically

The automation rules would let users define what should actually auto-create a ticket, eg. only bugs that have a high impact score.

linear.app/changelog/20...

03.11.2025 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh yeah, Linear and GitHub integrations are definitely coming! Trying to grasp what makes most sense to build first at the moment.

It could work like this:
1. Feedback received in Feedbackview
2. Automation rule creates Linear issue automatically
3. Linear hands off to GitHub Co-pilot automatically

03.11.2025 20:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New podcast episode recorded, contacts feature going hard already. I'm having a blast over here 🤘

24.10.2025 14:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Toddler asleep, time to build the next table stakes feature – contacts 📇

22.10.2025 10:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Veni! 🙌

21.10.2025 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Build Share Repeat | A podcast about bootstrapping a SaaS company Brief insights into bootstrapping a software company between standups and bedtime stories.

If bootstrapping podcasts are you thing, I’m getting back into it! Trailer Episode just launched! 🎙️ buildsharerepeat.com

21.10.2025 21:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man is laying on a couch with a bottle of beer in his lap ALT: a man is laying on a couch with a bottle of beer in his lap

Showed the kiddo how to repeat a song on his player today, big mistake.

21.10.2025 11:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Toddler is napping, time to ship another table stakes feature: Internal notes 📝

18.10.2025 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True – gotta tripe check all the things, but still much faster!

15.10.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

AI is definitely a force multiplier these days for me, especially when working solo on a project. Still took a good 2 months for me, working on it on the side. Bet Val spent a good amount of time on the new thing too!

15.10.2025 11:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No pressure! :D

15.10.2025 11:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Banger domain for a podcast has been acquired 🎙️
Time for some good old weekly build-a-saas updates

15.10.2025 07:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feedbackview - The AI-Native Customer Feedback Platform Turn feedback into happy customers with our AI-powered feedback widget, smart prioritization, auto-responses, and team collaboration.

I'm building a thing again btw:
feedbackview.io

15.10.2025 07:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Got Notion Mail yesterday and it's pretty neat tbh. I like the simplicity and it's starting to feel like a whole ecosystem 🔥

27.03.2025 12:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Not sure if you're into AI IDEs, but if you're using Windsurf, they have an option that lets you reference all the code etc. when you turn "write mode" on, but it can't do any edits. Pretty useful if you want to reason about something without the actual implementation.

26.03.2025 14:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Claude 3.7 💯

26.03.2025 12:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That sounds unpleasant. You should totally do that :D

26.03.2025 10:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ah that’s even harder to prevent then, oof :-/

26.03.2025 10:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s like grocery shopping with a toddler. You let them roam and it works okay and the second you become complacent they trash the entire aisle. Always keep an eye on the toddlers 😄

26.03.2025 10:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Adds friction, but you could require account activation through email on signup. Would only do if this is a big issue

24.03.2025 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I always had one Paddle account per product and they were tranferred fully when selling.

19.03.2025 04:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0