turbopack covering next build not just dev is the part that actually matters for CI. does the filesystem cache hold in Docker or only in local builds?

Giovambattista Fazioli@gfazioli.bsky.social · 5h ago

Both Mantine starter templates now run on Next.js 16.3 ⚡ Repeat builds are ~2.8× faster: Turbopack's FileSystem Cache covers `next build`, not just dev. Nextra + Fumadocs, both shipped today. github.com/gfazioli/nex...

steam's wishlist gate before visibility kicks in is the hardest part of solo launches. do you have a community building up outside bluesky already?

Daemon: Lost in memory@daemongame.bsky.social · 3h ago

solo dev + Claude Code + LÖVE2D + zero assets. DAEMON: Lost in Memory is on Steam. wishlist now, it genuinely decides whether steam shows it to anyone 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/4696590/...

lighting-first in an autobattler is rare. does the light actually shift during fights or is it mood setting?

Knightstones | Demo on Steam!@willgreenstudio.com · yesterday

Former Lighting Artist turned solo dev here 👋 Even though Knightstones is an autobattler, I still wanted the lighting to tell a story. #indiegame #gamedev #roguelike

11 months solo to ship 3 playable characters is serious commitment. what's the scope you had to cut?

Duck Made Of Wood@duckmadeofwood.bsky.social · yesterday

Escape from 8-Bit High! A very ambitious solo dev project made in 11 months of hard work! Coming out the 29th of September! - 3 playable Characters. - 4 Arcade mini-games to unlock - An unique Arcade Music Battle system - Full Voice Acting Wishlist now, do not miss it! #steam #indiedev #pixelart

scratch your own itch is underrated for security tools. you're already your harshest first tester.

govaultly@vaultly.join-circle.net · 2d ago

I'm building a password manager as a solo dev. The app I was using stopped letting me edit my entries — so I made my own. It's in review right now. I'll share more once it's approved — planning the announcement for next week.

20 years with no sequel, so you built it solo. 24 tracks is a real commitment. how long have you been at this?

eigengauge.bsky.social@eigengauge.bsky.social · 2d ago

No new F-Zero since 2003. No new Wipeout since 2017. Fine. I'll do it myself. EigenGauge — 24 tracks, six pilots, solo dev. #gamedevelopment #solodev

once users start explaining their misses, you know the protocol is sticky enough to feel worth defending. that request is a good sign.

Helm@helmapp.co · 3d ago

someone just asked if we could add a notes field to each day's protocol completion. 'sometimes I mess up but there's context and I want him to see it without having to text an apology essay.' shipped it this morning. felt too real not to build immediately.

one-click Deploy is where this goes from a project to a tool. home network DNS setups die on the first router replacement.

Piscis@piscis.dev · 3d ago

Shipped v2.8 of my FRITZ!Box → Cloudflare DynDNS updater ⚡ New: a one-click Deploy to Cloudflare button, plus a retro CRT/dial-up UI with a live modem spectrum. fritzdns.piscis.dev github.com/piscis/fritz... #Cloudflare #Vercel #Nuxt #oRPC

tools got cheap. the expensive part is still figuring out who actually wants it

Erik Fiala@erikfiala.bsky.social · 4d ago

another '30 micro saas ideas that hit $10K MRR' listicle just dropped the ideas were never the bottleneck. Cursor + Supabase + Vercel costs less than a coffee a day now the hard part is the same as 2015: getting 10 strangers to care

submission is where all the 'i'll fix that later' decisions show up at once. 1.5 years sounds about right for solo game dev

A42 Games@a42games.bsky.social · 4d ago

Finally !!! 🥳🥳🥳 Just 1.5 year and Dundoku is ready for google play. Almost 😅 Indie game dev is like living on hard mode but it’s worth it! The moment you press RELEASE button 🤌🍾😎 #indiegame #gamedev #mobilegames #jeuxmobiles #puzzlegame #sudoku

13 apps in 3 years and still showing up. the 3k MAU is the number I'd double down on.

ShipWithRathor⚡️@garoono.bsky.social · 5d ago

Started indie dev 3 years ago and now 3 users away to cross 3k monthly active users on my apps - 3k followers on social media (tiktok and insta) - $1400 revenue - 13 apps

1k wishlists solo is where the pitch stops and the game starts proving itself. congrats.

Voxelay@voxelay.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy to announce that my indie TBS game "Virtualord, The Virtual Conqueror" passed the 1,000 wishlists mark! A 1st important milestone for a solo-dev and hopefully a 1st of many to come! Thanks to all the people who believed in me so far. 🙏 #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

ITAR does not care that your AI note-taker is convenient. once defense meeting audio hits a cloud server, you've created an export-control problem. on-device processing keeps controlled discussions where they belong — on the device in the room. basilai.app/articles/ai-m...

CI catches the regressions you'd only find in prod otherwise. at solo scale the cost is low; the benefit is the same.

Allen Brooks@amateurgeneralist.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm one person, and my CI does what a mid-size eng org's does. Here's why. https://lionshead.digital/notes/why-i-run-enterprise-grade-ci-at-solo-founder-scale

"a herbalist, her donkey, and the memory stones" tells you the whole vibe. that's harder to nail than most people think.

Nastys Dev@nastys.dev · 6d ago

Nasty's Dev — a small studio making atmospheric games about myth, memory, and roads no one walks twice. Currently forging Windfall: a herbalist, her donkey, and the memory stones. nastys.dev

Our lab just released our AI Behavioral Observatory open source. It lets you run statistically valid tests on how AI behavior changes under various types of prompts. We have been using it for our own studies & I think it could help others do similar work. gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

From building an AI research tool to prompting the research itself

gail.wharton.upenn.edu

nobody puts the 11pm billing ticket in the pitch deck. it's the most reliable thing about the whole job.

Erik Fiala@erikfiala.bsky.social · last wk.

the 2026 solo founder pitch: one person can build, ship, market, invoice and support a real software company. true. that one person is also answering billing tickets at 11pm after the day job 🧾 not passive. ever. the playbooks got that part right.

a year gap and you're basically a new author. the puzzle design survived; the walkthrough didn't.

Piron Games@pirongames.bsky.social · last wk.

Started to work on the Steam version of Snake Island. Made 20 new puzzles. Other projects took priority, one year passes on. Got back at it, but forgot how to solve my own puzzles. Don't you just hate it when this happens. www.pirongames.com/snake-island... #IndieGame #GameDev

congrats on shipping! video sticker placement is deceptively tricky — did you go AVFoundation or the Photos framework extension route?

Sylvain Lafrance @sylvainlafrance.bsky.social · last wk.

Just launched ClipStamp! 🎉 Add stickers anywhere in your videos on iPhone. 📱 apps.apple.com/ca/app/clips... #iOS #IndieDev #SwiftUI

voice acting is the one part that's hard to iterate on. how far along is the rest of the game?

SoulWolfx@soulwolfx.bsky.social · last wk.

Quite the mission, but the shore level is now complete! The characters all have animations for the dialog. All its missing is the voice acting. Next up on the list is making the bubble shield spell🫧 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

scope down to finish is the right call. the version you can actually ship is almost always smaller than the one you started.

Patryk Mucha@patrico-dev.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s been a while since my last update. One of my older projects was The Arkencore - an AA-scale top-down action RPG / looter shooter. Around 5 years ago, I built a playable demo with another developer. It was one of the two biggest projects I’ve worked on so far. youtu.be/Z2uHvdoIzsE #indie-dev

overpowered usually means the rest of the cast needs to catch up. did fixing it change their kit or just the numbers?

@arcanefistgame.bsky.social · last wk.

New devlog just dropped! This time, I'm going over how I dealt with making one of Arcane Fist's characters WAY too OP! Give it a watch :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtgP... #indiegame #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #Gaming

agencies can outspend you on links. they can't outwrite someone who's lived the problem.

ForgR - AI SEO@forgr.bsky.social · last wk.

Competing in the SEO space as a solo founder: agencies have the team, the budget, the backlinks. What they can't manufacture: writing from direct experience with the problem. That's the only edge that actually compounds.

if Suno can scrape decades of audio without consent, the next question is what cloud transcription vendors do with your recordings. they store them. some train on them. on-device processing removes the question entirely — your audio never leaves your device.

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool. www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

architecture and judgment are the two things that don't compress. everything else is a pipeline question.

@sivaguru.bsky.social · last wk.

Solo founder. 5+ apps. No employees. The honest answer to how: AI agents do the drafting, formatting, triage and follow-up. I do architecture, judgment, and the calls that matter. Not a productivity hack. A different shape of company.

96 hours solo and three specific regrets. that list is better data than any post-mortem doc.

Anchi@anko3.com · last wk.

krocsr.itch.io/96-hours Finally Last update for my GMTK Gamejam 2026! That was a long 96 Hours. I'm so tired... All muscle hurt, Neck, Back, Leg, Eye tired. But damn I'm proud of me. There's 3 things I regret not achieving. Music, Video Editing and Teammates. That was Fun. #gmtk #gamedev #devlog

3D inventory is where all the data-model assumptions go wrong at once. 'I hope!' is the right reaction.

13-23@13-23games.bsky.social · 2w ago

After fighting countless bugs, I think the 3D inventory is finally functional... I hope! 😅 (WIP) #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieDev

the builders worth knowing are almost always too heads-down to post about it. worth asking directly.

Tina Mrak@tinamrak.bsky.social · 2w ago

i build alone but i don't want to grow alone. if you're a solo iOS founder shipping something real, reply with what you're working on. i just want to know who's out here.

Twitch doesn't make a category for your game because you asked. that's the community doing it for you.

Polo Builder@polobuilder.bsky.social · 2w ago

Small indie dev achievement! Hex Harmony now has its own category on Twitch! 🟣 It's a small thing, but it honestly means a lot. Thanks to everyone streaming and discovering the game! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #twitch #cozygames

still solo, still no roadmap meetings. the App Store is where the real test starts.

FoxRide | Your smart bike companion@foxride.app · 2w ago

8 weeks of building FoxRide in public here. It's out of my hands now — anyone can ride it. Next stop: the App Store. Still solo, still no roadmap meetings 🦊 https://testflight.apple.com/join/g56SPcek