Andrea D'Ambrosio @andrebuilds2

Day 3 back One terminal One agent One question: what are we shipping this week?

Most AI coding tools are built around one idea: do the work for you And it works Until it doesn't Until you're six months in and you realize you don't actually understand the codebase you've been "building" You understand the prompts You understand how to ask You don't understand the system I've been that developer It's a uncomfortable place to be DuckCode is built around a different idea There's a mode called Duck mode Named after rubber-duck debugging The practice of explaining your problem out loud until the solution becomes obvious In Duck mode the agent doesn't write a single line of code It reads your files It understands your context And then it asks you questions Not helpful suggestions Not "here's what I'd do" Just the right question at the right moment until you find the answer yourself At the end of every session a spec document gets saved in your project Written by you In your own words Because you did the thinking I know this sounds slower It is slower The first time The tenth time you're faster than any developer who outsourced their thinking to an AI This is what I've been building Not the fastest coding agent Not the one that writes the most code The one that makes you dangerous even when you close the terminal

I've been quiet for a while Not because I had nothing to say Because I was building something that needed all of me Back now

I'll fail a thousand times and start over a thousand times. I've built so many products that have failed, do you really think I'll stop?!

Everyone's talking about AEO, maybe it's time to do something about it?

People haven't realized that by 2026, software development will account for just 1%. The moat is what they should be focusing on

I have to say, what I'm cooking right now is absolutely crazy

Dude, what's going on with Private Mail? I'm spending the whole afternoon setting up my email

Every support conversation is a sales opportunity. Most tools only solve one. We solve both. Every question = every lead

Cassandra AI @getcassandra

6 months ago

Every conversation starts with a name and an email. Automatically. Your visitor came to ask a question. They left as a lead in your pipeline. Support and lead gen are not two tools. They are one widget.

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Transcript-only clipping is like judging a song by reading the lyrics. You miss the emotion. We analyze the audio. That’s the difference.

TuBoost @tuboostapp

6 months ago

We now listen to your video, not just read the transcript. Audio energy detection finds moments that are emotionally charged. Vocal peaks, intensity shifts, real reactions. A clip that looks good on paper but sounds flat never makes the cut anymore.

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Most founders launch too early or too late. The real skill is knowing which product needs speed and which needs patience.

Andrea D'Ambrosio @andrebuilds

6 months ago

Sunday night Two products live Both moving forward Both imperfect Both real TuBoost: creators are using it daily Clips being generated from podcasts, vlogs, interviews Real content going live on real channels Cassandra: Telegram integration in development Product Hunt launch

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Every question unanswered at midnight is revenue walking away. You're not losing customers to competitors. You're losing them to silence.

Andrea D'Ambrosio @andrebuilds

6 months ago

The businesses losing customers aren't losing them at 2pm They're losing them at 11pm When someone lands on the site Has one question And nobody is there to answer it The question doesn't go away The customer does This is the problem Cassandra was built for Not to replace

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Showing the same frame twice in split-screen is the AI equivalent of bad clip editing. We fixed it. Your competitors didn't.

TuBoost @tuboostapp

6 months ago

Split-screen clips used to show the same frame in both tiles. Same face, twice. We fixed it. Now split-screen only activates when there is actually something different to show on each side.

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Generic AI support = every customer interaction sounds like everyone else's AI. Custom prompts = your brand voice at 3am. One builds trust. One breaks it.

Cassandra AI @getcassandra

6 months ago

Your AI agent should not sound the same as everyone else's AI agent. One system prompt defines the personality. The tone. The rules. What it should always say. What it should never say. Your support, your voice. Not ours.

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Every AI clipper can find moments. Few can predict what your audience will actually click. That’s the difference

Andrea D'Ambrosio @andrebuilds

6 months ago

Most AI clipping tools stop at level 2 Pick the moments Export the clips Done TuBoost is at level 4 now And the distance between level 2 and level 4 is the difference between clips that exist and clips that actually perform Sunday morning

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Sunday afternoon End of week recap before the new one starts This week: → shipped v1.14, v1.15, v1.16 in five days → published two long-form articles on X → kept Reddit, cold email, directories running daily → TuBoost growing steadily → Cassandra building toward Telegram integration before Product Hunt No team No investor updates No sprint retrospective Just a founder at a kitchen table in northern Italy shipping, distributing, building every single day Here is the thing about building solo nobody says clearly enough: You are the product manager the developer the writer the support team the distribution channel All of it Every day It is the hardest thing I have ever done It is also the only thing I have ever done that felt completely mine Sunday Week done

Sunday night Two products live Both moving forward Both imperfect Both real TuBoost: creators are using it daily Clips being generated from podcasts, vlogs, interviews Real content going live on real channels Cassandra: Telegram integration in development Product Hunt launch waiting on that one feature Because launching twice on the same product means the second launch has to mean something I could launch Cassandra on Product Hunt tomorrow But the right moment is when the product is exactly what I want people to find when they search for it six months from now Patience is a product decision too Sunday done New week tomorrow Night

$97 a month gets you everything. Chat widget, voice calls, custom training, 10 languages, real-time inbox, lead capture. $147 gets you all of that plus full branding removal. White-label it. Resell it. Build recurring revenue on top of it. No per-seat pricing. No surprises.

Longer clips used to be analyzed with the same number of frames as short ones. That missed scene changes and layout shifts. Now a 15 second clip gets 4 frames. A 60 second clip gets 8. More frames, better analysis, smarter cuts.

We are building Telegram integration next. Then WhatsApp. Then more. The goal is simple. Wherever your customers are, Cassandra AI is already there. Same knowledge. Same voice. Every channel. Product Hunt launch is coming. But not until every channel is covered.