Another startup movie dropped this November... it's the story of Bumble and its CEO, Whitney Wolfe. It also covers the story of Tinder, where she used to be a co-founder.

I didn’t know there was so much drama behind the dating industry. Highly recommend giving it a watch.

@selfmadecoder

Watching this movie reminded me that I actually had my own dating site back in high school called True Love. It was both a website and a PWA (basically a website you could install like an app). It was made for high school students. I guess I was trying to solve a problem that wasn’t really mine, which probably played a part in its failure 😅.

I even tried advertising it and ended up getting around 500 users at the time 😁… but sadly, like 95% of them were boys, so yeah, that might explain why it didn’t work 😅

@selfmadecoder

I remember it well because I was one of the users😄. It was really thoughtful of you to make this app for us back then😁

#GoToChurch #Churchሂዱ

እግዚአብሔር ወዳለውም ቦታ ደረሱ፤ አብርሃምም በዚያ መሠዊያውን ሠራ፥ እንጨትንም ረበረበ፤ ልጁን ይስሐቅንም አስሮ በመሠዊያው በእንጨቱ ላይ አጋደመው። አብርሃምም እጁን ዘረጋ፥ ልጁንም ያርድ ዘንድ ቢላዋ አነሣ። የእግዚአብሔር መልአክም ከሰማይ ጠራና፦ አብርሃም አብርሃም አለው፤ እርሱም፦ እነሆኝ አለ። እርሱም፦ በብላቴናው ላይ እጅህን አትዘርጋ፥ አንዳችም አታድርግበት፤ አንድ ልጅህን ለእኔ አልከለከልህምና እግዚአብሔርን የምትፈራ እንደ ሆንህ አሁን አውቄአለሁ አለ።
ዘፍጥረት 22:9-12

@chrstian_316

One thing I’ve learned over time is how silly it is to obsess over your tech stack. Just use whatever works for you and whatever works best for the product you’re building. JS, TS, Rust, PHP, even COBOL 😁 .. it really doesn’t matter. Most of the time you’re either working on someone else’s product (where the CTO picks the stack anyway), or you’re building your own, and you definitely don’t need to write your todo app in Assembly just to feel “performant and scalable.” Get your first users first.

I’m not saying write spaghetti or vibe coded, unmaintainable and unscalable stuff, but we really stress over the silliest things sometimes.. like “is PHP dying?” or “is Ruby dead?” Who even decides that? If you’re learning for fun, cool. But if you’re building a product, overthinking the stack just wastes your time and usually ends with the project half finished and abandoned.

@selfmadecoder

David didn’t tell God how big Goliath was .. he told Goliath how big God is.

@selfmadecoder

Some people just want to:
- always be right (even when they’re not),
- sound smart (even when they don’t know what they’re talking about),
- give excuses for everything (instead of trying).

This is just what I’ve observed ... you don’t have to agree.

@selfmadecoder

I had an issue verifying my phone number on Bithob. I emailed their support team but got no response, so I went on X, found the founder, and sent him a DM. He got back to me a few hours later and the issue is now fixed 🔥.
What a time we’re living in, huh?

@selfmadecoder

Feels like Bun, but make it Python with uv 😂🔥

@selfmadecoder

Devtopia is back with another interview. This one is with kinfish (@kinfishfarms). It ended up being our longest episode to date.

We talked about a lot of cool stuff, hope you enjoy the episode, also thank you kinfish for being on the episode.

[Devtopia - E04 - Kinfish]

I called my sync-server mobile app “local first.”
Devtopia E04 set me straight ... real local first runs offline first and reconciles later. Noted. 😌

@selfmadecoder

Bro, there’s a whole army of Ethiopian college vloggers on YouTube ... I just opened one video and the recommendations went crazy. I didn’t even know this many vloggers existed ... and most of them are from AAU.

@selfmadecoder

Just heard this quote today:
‘It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.’

Movie name : RISE ( 2022 )

@selfmadecoder

Use Antigravity with Gemini 3 for any of your UI work.. trust me, you won’t regret it.

@selfmadecoder

See there is always a way 😅

@selfmadecoder