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I could have given up... It was my choice. But it's the hard path, not ready made code copied and pasted from Claude, for example, that made me a finisher.
I revere each environment. Dev environment to me is now as important as testing and staging environments.
Nothing reaches production unless I'm sure things are server side validated, or be accompanied by it. Authetication, rate limits... Nothing reaches prod if i don't review each line of code, structure, what happens when rate limits are hit in the last second before the window resets and requests from the same user, for example, arrive again in the first second after the reset. Buckets here have been useful.
This brings me back to the first 2 lines. I could have given up. It was my choice. But the fundamental seemingly-boring things like ML and CI/CD pipelines made me choose finishing... so, I chose to be a finisher.
P.S. And I'm sure complaining isn't a strategy for a finisher. If you're a finisher, and the inevitable hurdles like someone favouring others over you when you've the merit, for example, handle it gracefully. When meritocracy is compromised, handle it graceeeefulllllly.. I now believe that's a form of intelligence. And continue doing what you do... Sorry if it sounds like I'm patronising you...
Thanks so much ,
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DREAM-O — The global registry of dreams.
I almost never remember my dreams. I wanted an app that would tell me what I dreamed last night — and the moment I imagined it working, I knew what the company behind it would actually be. So I built that company instead.
A pillow unit records every session. Twelve minutes after you wake, the company issues a record. It never explains how.
What you're allowed to see of your own dream depends on which plan you pay for. ORIGIN opens one scene a month. The rest stay in custody — described in full, never opened. Their time, their length, their size, their state. Everything except what happened. After fourteen days they're destroyed. Not for the company. For you. And the company doesn't say destroyed. It says released.
Every screen is written in that voice: procedural, patient, institutional. The product never winks. Nothing on any sheet tells you this is wrong — you work that out yourself, somewhere around the retention page.
One prompt in Flowstep produced six screens. From there it was iteration — prompt, look, correct, look again. Text overflowing, blocks colliding, things that looked fine until I zoomed in. Every screen sits on a percentage grid with four x-values and a single hairline spine at 68.4% height. No border radius, no shadows, no serifs, no accent colour anywhere in the system.
Then I connected Claude Code to Flowstep's MCP server, handed it my design guide, and asked it to audit all fourteen screens against it, one by one. A second prompt to fix what the audit found. It worked inside the Flowstep file over MCP. I went off to cook.
I came back and it was ready — I just wired a few links by hand, three clicks each. Fourteen screens for twelve sheets — the record sheet exists three times, one per plan. A path you can walk end to end.
Prototype: https://app.flowstep.ai/file?activeFileId=0a82e6e8-edfa-4dfb-ace8-dfb2e8122859
Social: https://x.com/JosIgnacio17989/status/2083406318304481732
Built with Flowstep · Claude Code over MCP
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I'm working on something a little different for my portfolio and I'd love some feedback.
I'm doing a complete redesign of my personal portfolio to make it more fun, memorable, and a better reflection of who I am as both a frontend developer and UI/UX designer.
I've been a Pokémon fan for as long as I can remember, so I'm leaning into that inspiration to create an experience that feels like exploring a classic Pokémon game while showcasing my work, case studies, experimentation, and technical skills.
Now I need your help deciding on the direction.
Theme 1
Classic Pokémon Red/Blue inspired with bold colors, badges, and a modern retro feel.
Theme 2
Game Boy inspired with the nostalgic monochrome aesthetic that feels like playing on the original handheld.
Which one would you choose?
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CreativeOS — an AI workspace that remembers everything about your creative work, so you never have to search again.
Built for creators juggling ten tools at once — WhatsApp threads, Gmail approvals, scattered Figma comments. CreativeOS doesn't just store your files, it remembers the story of your project and tells you exactly what to do next, like a creative director who sat in every meeting.
Three screens, one arc:
→ Return — instant context the moment you open a project
→ Remember — the real story of how the project evolved, not a file list
→ Recommend — one specific, grounded recommendation, not a generic AI guess
Built in @Flowstep — prompt to real editable canvas, no code. Some generations needed refining, so I used Flowstep's Figma handoff to fine-tune the details by hand.
Full walkthrough in the video. Would genuinely love to know — would you use something like this?
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it feels really helpful as a designer... We often need this because we can get confused about where we left off or what we've already done. If everything is grouped together in one place!! it becomes much easier to stay organized and continue our work without any confusion about where we stopped.....!!!!