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After recently pivoted the direction of SpamLabs from being an email address analyzer API to a spam filter targeting cold emails, I decided to continue validating this new approach. The problem is real, I am dealing with it myself: on my work email I am getting some annoying cold emails,
Recently I began exploring the idea of integrating ChatGPT into SpamLabs in order to build it into an unsolicited message blocker. To do that, the initial idea was to ask ChatGPT in a prompt something in the lines of is the following message a cold email? respond "yes"
The initial outreach to gather feedback about an API that validates email addresses based on various analysis (DNS analysis being the main one) didn't turn out the way I hoped. Sent about 40 cold emails about gathering feedback to gauge the interest in such a service. Although the
We launched and we're ready to go! Although there are a million things I would still want to do, I bit the bullet and made launched the MVP of SpamLabs: an API that tells whether a user is spammy or not based on the email address and generated
For the indie hackers out there that say that tech stack doesn't matter, I say: it actually matters. But not in the way you'd think. It doesn't matter for the success of the company because some stacks are flashier or more optimized for performance.
The conversation about code quality usually revolves around code smells, patterns, modules, languages, principles and other things like that. Things that, indeed, affect to some degree the quality of the code, and it is much easier to talk about them in isolation to put up a fast example. But I
I had multiple attempts to settle on a blog engine to write things on from time to time. I tried Wordpress, some static site generators, even built my own blog engine called DevXBlog. Now I moved everything to Ghost, and I hope it will be the last change I make
The hype with the recent AI developments is still going somewhat strong. Even though the initial awe went away and people started to see ChatGPT for what it is, a text generation tool that sometimes gives good answers but most of the time it gives the wrong ones, confidently, the
This post will be about a topic that tends to be pretty divisive: is UI (user interface, aka the design of an app) important? Or how important it is? How much effort needs to be put into it? In the startup world, where resources are scarce and you have to
Given the current fuss about OpenAI's newest release, the ChatGPT3 model, I wanted to share my thoughts about it. I played with it for a little bit, followed what people used it for or say it can be used for, and tried to find some more practical uses
The most common sin a software developer tends to do is overengineering. I have been guilty of doing this more often than I'd like to admit, and I am still prone to doing it from time to time. Why do we, as software engineers, tend to overengineer? The
Remember when crypto used to stand for cryptography and not cryptocurrencies? I do! I was scrolling around and thought: you don't read a lot of cryptography stuff anymore, or security protocols. Or maybe I am in the wrong social media bubbles, and I don't get that
For a while now, I wanted to write a few words about this topic: what is the absolute worst decision you can make as a decision maker involving a tech product (internal or external)? I guess we all have our own definitions for what that "absolute worst decision"
Long time no write! 4 months more precisely. I can't believe 4 months have passed since I last posted a new blog post. But I have my reasons, and they are good, trust me. I was busy building a blog engine from scratch, and migrate my blog to
When I am not working on Vuuh I am building on the side a blogging platform/engine named DevXBlog, which is powering the blog you are currently reading. I did that because I wanted to have a more long-term web-accessible solution for writing my thoughts. In my old blog version,
Long time no write! It's been like two or three months since the last time I posted something on this blog, and I'm going to tell you why. I have been pushing real hard with my current job (being the CTO of an early tech company