Vlad
vladcx.bsky.social
Vlad
@vladcx.bsky.social
Building roic.ai
Is it a pro version of JavaScript?
September 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Trying to boost Roic AI sales episode #654

Added the Perplexity Pro for one year as a gift
September 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
/claude "fix the stickiness of the element to the left"

- Sure, let me fix it
September 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This morning I came up with an idea for Roic AI to ask our users for ideas on how we can generate more revenue, offering $100 for that.

One hour later, I set up a self-hosted Formbricks (pretty easy btw), and the survey is already in production.
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Self-hosting Supabase is a joke.

It's so unbearably slow with 10+ containers, from which I basically use just three: Postgres, Kong, Studio.

It's time to move on to the old simple REST API + Postgres (with BetterAuth).
September 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Spent a couple of days learning Swift

Pros:
- Apple development experience is top-notch, emulator is polished, there are a lot of built-in methods for almost everything
- SwiftUI is awesome

Cons:
- You're a slave to Apple; if it doesn't like something in your app, you'll get blocked.
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I had a lot of strange behavior when users subscribed. They would click on a subscription button, see the price, and leave.

After connecting analytics and tracking, I realized that users often missed that they were on an annual preselected plan.
August 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
cursor is worth $20 just for its tremendous autocomplete

no need to use agents

for this, you have Claude code
August 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The Nano-Banana model (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is really good at preserving context (like my face).
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I always slash prices in half before shutting down the project that didn't take off.

Some sort of last resort. Never worked so far, but still a little ritual.
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Decided to find new ways of monetizing Roic ai and came up with the idea of putting ads on my website

But I don't like those ugly ads of Google AdSense. Moreover, the RPM (revenue per mille) is quite low. You can maybe get $2 per one thousand views.
August 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
integration of Roic AI with ChatGPT is live now.

it took me a couple of days to deal with OpenAI oauth, but Claude Code was able to help me
August 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I found that the cloud code runs super slow, and the solution was pretty simple.

It created a 2.6-megabyte .claude.json file that was constantly read, causing it to pause for 15 seconds before making any action.

After deleting it, everything runs as smoothly as the first time.
August 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Almost finished integrating Roic AI with ChatGPT. It's super cool and speeds up the work by 10 times.
August 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
every time I start to think that vibe coding might be a new way of coding, I see this Claude Code output and begin to question it

yes, it checks for the existence of a table on every API request 😂
August 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
debugging CustomGPT is a crime against sanity
August 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Installed SigNoz on my server in 5 minutes (literally, git clone && install bash) and now all my apps are sending logs automatically!
August 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Going to a city of croissant smell (no)
August 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
by blocking AI bots from your website, you simply block the future citations from LLMs

don't block your future
August 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I stopped using chat/agent in Cursor completely

but tab autocompletion with Claude code is an unbeatable productivity hack
August 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Pro tip:
install Playwright mcp in Claude Code, and let the chat see your browser.
never need to copy html from a browser again

command:
claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest;
August 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Not too shy?
August 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
day-0

So, zero day for today. We got a viral post. (okay, not so viral, like a meme with millions of views. But 36k from the target audience is good.)

I don't have any website metrics because the post got traction before I was even able to set up the analytics.
August 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We were supposed to release today, but everything went wrong.

I posted a tweet about how we created the self-hosting NextJs platform using TanStack Start, and the post exploded.
August 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
if your profile page doesn't look like this, you launched too late
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM