Working hard doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s definitely required
Dev Neill
@devneill.com
Exploring AI in web development ⋅ Building financial confidence Know.finance ⋅ Sharing insights at devneill.substack.com
"You need to talk to someone." Running out of money, failing at Upwork and learning the power of warm outreach. It’s been a month. Find out the mistakes I’ve made and what I’ve learned from them this month in Dev Builds #7. Coming to your inbox tomorrow 📥
I want to make websites like artists make paintings. 🖼️ Jenny Saville, Albertina museum in Vienna.
it’s all good and well to value distribution over product But you can’t distribute nothing
I’m going to hedge my bets and look for full time positions in parallel with selling business websites. Today I’m polishing the CV ✨
Do something difficult enough times and you start to look forward to it This happened for me with running 🏃 Now it’s happening with gym 🏋️
Dev builds #6 is out now 🗞️ I took a moment to reflect on what I learned from preparing my talk for #EpicWebConf Hopefully, it can help with your AI chats, too ✨ devneill.substack.com/p/3-simple-...
I love the @raycastapp calculator. It always surprises me how many use cases it covers 🔥
I built an app in 20 minutes on stage at #EpicWebConf two weeks ago. To do this, I built the same app 66 times. Tomorrow, I'll share how you can get more predictable, quality results from Cursor too. Tobi says it's time to take prompting seriously 😉 devneill.substack.com/
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Would you be interested if I interviewed up and coming Indie Hackers? Not the success stories like @starter_story. They're too far ahead. I'd chat with the ones that are starting to connect the dots, but are just a few steps ahead of us at the beginning.
I’ve been nocturnal since getting back to Europe 🦉 Back at the gym to try reset the body clock 🏋️ (I can only lift a quarter of that)
I'm on my way home! I've met incredible people. I've learnt some powerful ideas. I've had a lot of nerves and a lot of laughs. Put yourself out there, do something scary - it will be worth it. Thank you for all the support and an amazing event @kentcdodds.com and #EpicWebConf
Such an amazing experience ✨
Mark Techson@marktechson.com · last yr.Witnessing another historic moment! @devneill.com giving his first talk and it was a big risk to do all live demo but boy did it pay off! Amazing demo and I am so hyped to see him continue to tell stories from the stage! “Idea to production in 20 minutes”
✅ Final run through done. ✅ Stage outfit ready. ✅ Told myself I’ve got this. Today is the day!! #EpicWebConf
Made it to SLC! It’s way past my bedtime time and things are getting a little weird 🎸🫠 Goodnight 😴
Touched down in Denver! I left 11 hours ago but the time is only four hours later 🥲
Too much screen time without movement is a really bad thing. You can’t work hard unless you work out.
OK @windsurfai.bsky.social is really growing on me. The memory system is amazing. It keeps the most relevant parts of your chat history, but manages it's context proactively to avoid the window getting overloaded. No need to start a new chat and rescan the code every 20 minutes 👌
So @windsurfai.bsky.social is actually really nice. I had to stop using Cursor because of the Anthropic rate limiting today, and Windsurf has been smooth 🧈