creature_x
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Software developer living in Vancouver, BC. My spare time is spent juggling books, fitness, learning, and coding.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Dern! I was really looking forward to reading the prequels, in no small part because how much I love Gus's character.
Comment · 1 month ago
We must be kindred spirits! Any recs for me ?
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh I've got some recs for you if you want meaty! I've been reading classics this year. It started with East of Eden; if you've got a philosophical leaning and appreciate your characters deeply fleshed out, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
The next one was Lonesome Dove, this was my first time reading a western and I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did. The book is also absolutely hilarious and has one of my favorite characters in a book(shoutout to Gus).
I'm currently reading The Count of Monte Cresto and, boy, it's turning out to be quite the epic tale of revenge(no spoilers please!).
Comment · 2 months ago
Building an AI agent that creates promotional content for social media, in a way that deeply resonates with your target audience. I tried using Claude and ChatGPT first, and they could give me a few good posts, but not a reliable stream of them. After 10–15 outputs, the angles converged, the language repeated, and everything became too salesy. I was still providing business context, finding angles, tracking previous posts.
It was clear to me that a marketing harness was needed around the LLMs for this purpose, and so Feral was born.
Comment · 3 months ago
I built roughly 10 apps over the past year. Building them was the fun part; consistently marketing them was where my energy disappeared. I also couldn’t justify hiring an agency for every small project.
I tried using ChatGPT and Claude, but getting one good result was very different from getting consistently good results every day. I still had to find the angle, write the prompt, judge the output, repair it, and return tomorrow with another idea.
And thus, Feral was born - it's a content creation engine that generates text + image creative to promote your stuff, in a manner that's conducive for social media.
The entire harness around Feral's content creation pipeline consists of marketing, copywriting and psychology principles. It understands your business, but equally importantly, it understands what your customers tick; their dreams and desires, and then it creates content that speaks in their language.
You can try it here:
There is a 5-day free trial, then it is $45/month.
I would genuinely appreciate feedback!
Comment · 3 months ago
I’m building Feral, an AI agent that learns your business and audience, then creates content that actually resonates with your people.
I built it because I’m terrible at content creation and had a graveyard of under-promoted apps that never went anywhere. I know showing up consistently on socials matters, but I also have a strong aversion to AI slop, so I’ve spent a lot of time and money making the output feel less sloppy.
If you're interested, check it out here: https://feralhq.com
Comment · 8 months ago
Not sure if I completely agree with this. Since time immemorial the world has been going to hell in a hand basket. My own grandparents were born and braised in poverty in one of the most poverty-stricken countries on Earth. They had lots of kids. Those kids grew up and started their own families. It was rocky, but we are all doing fine, and doing extremely well compared to our grandparents.
I don't have a complete answer for this and I think this is an extremely complicated and multi-faceted problem. From my vantage point, I know a lot of people who can afford to have kids but their mantra has been "Now is just not the right time" as they spent their 20s imbibing in casual flings and evanescent relationships. I was one such person. Now that I am in my mid 30s, the desire for casual sex has been replaced by attaining financial freedom. My desire for wanting more and more is something I am not proud of, but I am not doing anything to change, so what does that say about me ?
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice, from what I have tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire
Comment · 8 months ago
I am currently building an agentic process to help me with social media marketing for my apps, as this is my biggest obstacle in terms of gaining traction. This involves disparate processes: AN entire workflow to generate high-quality blogs that are germane to my product domain, crafting posts on X/replies to comments in a tone that is uniquely mine, conducting one-on-one outreach on my behalf, etc..
I recently released what I think is an incredibly fun brain training app. It's heavy on toilet humor, but the goal is to improve your working memory, processing speed, and mental math. It's called Turd Turf and it's completely free to play- you can check it out here: https://turdturf.app
Comment · 9 months ago
As you progress, the questions get more complex and the speed gets faster! If TurdTurf doesn't take off, then UnicornMath surely will (:
Comment · 9 months ago
Your comment is well received and the profanity has been removed!
Comment · 11 months ago
Haha, it's not THAT spicy ;)