Stefan Gasser
stefangasser.com
Stefan Gasser
@stefangasser.com
👨‍💻 Former Engineering Leader
🪄 Building @mailwizard.ai - AI email assistant
💡 Creator of @autoidle.com - profitable Heroku tool
🚀 Developer turned founder
Ouch! Got so excited building my new SaaS that I neglected AutoIdle - my main revenue source! Broke its blog, traffic dropped 600 → 30 views. Took 3 months to notice! 🤦 Simple monitoring would have caught this. How do you balance maintaining existing products while building new ones?
#buildinpublic
December 7, 2024 at 5:48 PM
UX improvements in progress 🎨

Auto-detecting recipient context (no manual selection!)
Freeform mode for those edge-case emails
Cleaner, more intuitive dashboard
All questions visible at once

Making email writing feel effortless, not overwhelming 💫

What are you simplifying today? 🛠️ #buildinpublic
December 4, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Stefan Gasser
One of my favourite UI patterns is using `backdrop-filter` to create a “frosted glass” effect.

When I see this effect in the wild, though, it’s almost never as lush and realistic as it could be. There’s an important optimization that nobody makes.

✨ I share the secret sauce in my brand-new post:
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most reali...
joshwcomeau.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Started investigating how Claude renders React components in artifacts and managed to get it working! (Just figured it out today with help from @reidbarber.com's article about reverse engineering Claude artifacts.) Might make it open source and add sharing features... I don't know yet.
November 28, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Great technical deep-dive by @reidbarber.com on reverse engineering Claude's Artifacts! He explores implementation details and how Anthropic built this capability.
reidbarber.com/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-artifacts
Reverse engineering Claude Artifacts
A deep dive into how Claude.ai's Artifacts feature works
reidbarber.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Reposted by Stefan Gasser
if you set your database browser font to Comic Sans it's less serious when you accidentally drop a table. follow for more development tips
November 25, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Fellow builders, what did you ship today? 🛠️

#buildinpublic
November 25, 2024 at 8:35 PM
My new Sunday ritual: As an indie maker, blocking my week deliberately keeps me shipping.

For example: Prompt & AI Monday, marketing Tuesday, dev time Wed-Fri. No more random juggling - each part of building gets its dedicated time.

How do you handle wearing all hats? #buildinpublic
November 25, 2024 at 3:31 PM
In the life of a solopreneur, your greatest fear and your greatest power are the same thing: everything rests in your hands.
November 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
This weekend was my first in 4 months without coding. Since leaving my Head of Software role, I've been sprinting like crazy. Turns out removing self-imposed pressure might be the real key to building something meaningful. #buildinpublic
November 25, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Starting my #buildinpublic journey here
After 11 years from developer to head of software, one thing constantly drained me: the stress of writing "perfect" emails. That blank screen anxiety.

Quit my job to solve this. Building mailwizard.ai to help people communicate confidently, not just faster.
Business Email AI Assistant & Writing Tool | MailWizard
Write business emails with confidence. AI helps you create professional messages in seconds - no more writer's block or communication anxiety.
mailwizard.ai
November 25, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Hey! 👋 Had a Twitter account but rarely used it. Really enjoying the #buildinpublic conversations here on Bluesky. Just wondering if it's still a good time to start sharing my journey? Looking forward to connecting!
November 25, 2024 at 6:39 AM
When using Claude, I want to add the text of a webpage easily. I built this Chrome extension: Paste any URL in Claude, get the webpage content attached instantly! I was tired of copying entire pages manually, so I fixed it!

👉 github.com/sgasser/webs...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmpo...
Website Reader for Claude - Share Any Webpage with Claude by Just Pasting a URL | Chrome Extension
YouTube video by Stefan Gasser
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Just joined Bluesky! Grateful to @mijustin.bsky.social for the insightful perspective: justinjackson.ca/twitter-bluesky 🙏
Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
After 15 years and 50,000 tweets on Twitter/X, I'm moving to Bluesky, which (in the last month) has become 1,000x more fun than X.
justinjackson.ca
November 24, 2024 at 10:45 AM
👋 Hi, I'm new here!

I'm a developer and full time startup founder, my products are mailwizard.ai and autoidle.com

Can't wait to connect! 🦋
Business Email AI Assistant & Writing Tool | MailWizard
Write business emails with confidence. AI helps you create professional messages in seconds - no more writer's block or communication anxiety.
mailwizard.ai
November 24, 2024 at 10:40 AM