fotoflo

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Hi, I'm Alex — builder & investor, 25+ yrs across Asia. PM at Renren.com (NYSE IPO) → EIR at 500 Startups & Accelerating Asia → skin in ~50 startups.

Now: AI workshops/advisory (https://aimhuge.com) and Zeph.vc (https://zeph.vc), a new energy seed fund focused on Bangladesh with optionality across Southeast Asia. On the side: Plain Dharma (https://plaindharma.com) — the Buddha's core teachings in plain modern English, as a book, audiobook, and app.

Obsessed with climate startups that actually make money — hundreds of ideas at https://zeph.vc/idea-bank. Email me anything: [email protected], or pitch our partners at [email protected]

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Comment · 5 months ago
I kept getting burned by rate limits in Claude Code. I'd be deep in something and just hit auto compaction or start to get near the end of my context window without noticing. Then I read about Claude's status line tooling... so I made this. Hope others find it useful.

The first line shows my context, token usage, lines of code change, and importantly how much of my 5hr and weekly budget is left and when it resets, and goes green to red as I burn it down.

The lines added/removed counter is the one I didn't expect to like. it's a quick "did I actually do anything this session" check, and honestly the days where I delete more than I add are usually the good ones.

Script and install are in the post if you want to steal it, or just paste the url into Claude Code and tell it to set it up. would be curious what other people put on theirs, theres way more in that json than I'm using.

Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you! Really helpful to hear that! Like the idea of using the testimonials this way.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you

I couldn't find "continuosly" in the dom - where is it?

"Continuous Monitoring & Alerts for Downtime and Page Speed. Share Notes, Discuss Changes, and More."

best → easiest? simplest? most straightforward?

I always found that when i was working in any type of data analysis, and there was an anomaly, i would figure out what was up, and then... a few days later forget. So having notes on charts and whatnot and being able to share with colleagues is the collaborative part. Especially around outages and slow downs, (or speed ups) we want to know why.

Comment · 2 years ago
Its coming...

Did you paste images into chatgpt to show it what the layout was looking like?

Comment · 2 years ago
Really nice and clean!

I made something a little similar - https://github.com/fotoflo/alfred-whatsapp-linker - this one is an Alfred Workflow (https://alfredapp) that assumes you have a phone number in your clipboard and then opens it in whatsapp. I suppose yours is more elegant.

How long did it take you + GPT to create it?

Comment · 2 years ago
But it wouldn't be easy. It requires a pro plan on vercel to even run, because of the long time outs of the serverless functions.
Comment · 2 years ago
No there isn't an option for that at the moment... Might be interesting to open source it if i cant build a business on it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not yet! Is that important to you? Can i ask why?
Comment · 2 years ago
Forever with a limited amount of URLs
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes! For images that are large and you know the user will wait.

But why not use webp too?

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