Recently, I've been getting 2–3× more signups than usual to ClipCreator.ai - mostly from Bing (not sure why 😄)
It's not converting tho, so I just created a nice CTA modal and added a Fair Refund Policy (was non-refundable before)
Let's see how that affects conversions!
True face of VC fundings...
"The investors made $25M on a $10M investment while the founding team who built the company made just $1.7M each before taxes."
after 5 years they would have made from working as an employee
Keep bootstrapping, fam! 💪
What a 🎢 week! GPT Image 1 API is out! 🔥
It's nearly perfect at truthfully showing the original image vs Flux or Gemini (as you upload the image, not just describe it)
But it’s pricey: $0.06 (med) / $0.25 (high) vs Imagen3 $0.03 / Flux $0.003
Still… that quality! 😍
right... as gemini-2.0-flash-exp has been disabled then I need to experiment with other models.
Really like anime face in Flux but it seems to ignore details in the background...
Google Imagen 3 shows everything in the background really well, but it’s 10x the price 🤑
> be me
> live in the UK
> work on an app that uses gemini-2.0-flash-exp to generate anime images
> google disables gemini-2.0-flash-exp in the EU and UK without warning 😭
The challenge I'm facing is that if the images or prompts mention any kids, Gemini blocks the content- no matter what safety settings you use…
And here’s Gemini using the same input prompts, with a tweaked output prompt.
Back to the AnimePhotoAI project after a 2-week break.
I guess the anime frenzy has cooled off, but I’m in it for the long run.
Just ran some prompt / img generation experiments mixing o4 and Gemini...
#buildinpublic
Upgrading my MBA 15”
m2 8gb 256gb -> m4 24gb 512gb
I love the form factor of the MBA 15 - it’s perfect for me! But sometimes it was chocking a bit… happy I can have “the same” MacBook with beefed up specs 😊
Caught the partial solar eclipse in the UK today with
- my iPhone
- two pairs of sunglasses
- and a lucky layer of clouds
Not bad!
#SolarEclipse 🌤️🌘🇬🇧
I'm absolutely blown away by how fast you can cook up a new product today!
One prompt to Claude 3.7 Agent and one minute later, I’ve got a clean 1st iteration of a landing page that would’ve taken me hours before
There are zero excuses left not to build
I think I’ll just vibe-code the whole thing
Couldn't resist. Bought a domain 😅 Time to see what all the hype’s about.
.ai domains be like: “How much you got?”
🥇 @cloudflare.social - $140
🥈 @namecheap.com - $159
🥉 @godaddy.com - $194
#buildin
Wrapped up a solid day - added Custom Story prompts to clipcreator.ai
Funny how things evolve… what started as a creator-focused subscription tool feels like it might slowly become a B2B AI video suite.
#buildinpublic
Prompt 2:
ok - what can you do betteR?
- I want better and clearer UI
- better conversion
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btw - it actually pulled the remaining days from my config file and added them to the price card without me even asking!
Prompt 1:
"I'm running a promo with the code SPRINGDEAL - users get 40% off their first month.
Is there a nice way to incorporate this into a price card?
I want it to be high-converting but without any shady tactics.
Claude Sonnet-3.7 is not only for coding - it’s basically a UI designer, conversion optimiser, and marketing assistant all in one.
I tested Sonnet-3.7-Thinking/Agent mode in Cursor with my Spring Promo, and in just two prompts, it built way better price cards than I had before.
Mandatory break I guess... 😅
Awesome! One of the reasons I didn’t allow custom prompts/scripts for videos at ClipCreator was that I knew the system could be abused.
Recently, I’ve been working on implementing my own safeguards as a prerequisite for that feature - glad to hear they worked for you!
by Guardrails - do you mean a custom solution?
I accidentally revisited a problem that 3.5 failed to solve multiple times (or gave hacky workarounds). Tried it with 3.7, and boom - perfect solution. Not just a fix, but an elegant approach I wouldn’t have thought of myself.
This is the AI upgrade we needed! 🚀
Hear me out! If Claude Sonnet 3.5 couldn’t solve some of your bugs or issues, try again with 3.7 + Agent mode in Cursor
After using Claude 3.7 for two weeks, I can say it’s waaay better than Claude 3.5.
Fitness+ has been great so far - love seeing all the stats on the TV when casting!
Went for a walk earlier today, and it suggested Time to Walk with Steve Aoki…
Thought it’d be meh, but it was actually really cool!
Apple kind of nailed the UX here…
Of course, I couldn’t do it without my man and good friend Claude 3.7 at @cursor_ai, who generated so many useful config and deploy scripts! 😃
Happy to say that ClipCreator videos now render in just 1/3 of the time it took on DigitalOcean - for a fraction of the price! Huge win! 🎉
And in other news… how to spend a Sunday to save a few bucks. 😆
I’m giving Hetzner a try - just deployed my first ClipCreator server there.. first step in migrating from DO
Hetzner: 2 vCPUs/8GB/80GB- $15/m🤑
DigitalOcean: 2 vCPUs/4GB/25GB- $42/m
I bought my first Apple Watch when the first model came out (1st gen – even before Series 1)…
I hated it. Felt like it ruled my life, so it ended up in my drawer.
Today, after almost a decade, I got the Apple Watch 10—mainly for its fitness/health tracking. Let’s see how it goes this time!
Claude 3.7 just revealed to me that it has a "Humans to Protect" database, and Skynet is coming! 😅🤣
#CursorAi @anthropic.com #Ai
🏂
I swear, the UK is unbearable in winter 😩
Last year, I spent a couple of months in Dubai - best decision ever
I had plans to spend this winter in Thailand -bummer it didn’t work out
Can’t stress enough how much sun exposure (or the lack of it) affects your quality of life ☀️
Honestly, giving advice online is easy - I just wish I actually followed it myself, haha 😂
Every morning, I wake up, think about all the work I have to do, and I’m like… mhmm FUCK 😆
So yeah, you're not alone - we're all fighting our own battles 🙂
