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Building tech companies & improving processes

Hong Kong

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

We are working around the clock to be the best 3PL out there. By combining our knowledge of working with China, the extensive D2C experiene and our unique software expertise we are able to innovate and improve every single aspect. It is truly so inspiring to see how much work

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Ecomflow

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The Ecomflow supply-chain is the best supply-chain solution for top tier DTC brands. We understand your needs, your expectations and we understand how the entire customer journey of the biggest brands out there work.

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1 month

never taking a day for granted 🔒

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keeping it simple, yet effective

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2 months

just coded an automation that will save the team about 27 hours a week. time for some deserved sleep.

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2 months

typical day of a software developer: - fast - crush out some code - go gym - watch sunset - travel to a new country

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2 months

i don’t mind a simple life

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4 months

pov: you shattered the software engineer stereotype

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5 months

Calm Saturday in Dubai with the homie @wojteklesinski

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1 month

life is not so bad in barcelona 🇪🇸

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5 months

day trip to china 👀 factory visits and partnership meetings

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3 months

enjoying some work with a view

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

My preferred techstack for quickly building SaaS MVPs: - Next.js 13 - @tailwindcss - @radix_ui - @DrizzleORM - @PlanetScale or plain old Postgres - Mailgun - React Email If some async / messaging / queueing needs to be done: @upstash is the way to go

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2 months

just bought a new domain name 👀

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4 months

“oh you are a software developer, you must be sitting inside all day?” yea, sort of

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6 months

🧘‍♂️ and 🎯 in Barcelona

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4 months

a calm sunday in barcelona: - some work - some sun - a nice workout ready for next week 🎯

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

Celebrated my birthday yesterday here in Barcelona with a nice dinner. It really is the friends & family around you that make a city feel like a home. On to the next year. Lots of exciting projects and plans upcoming. ✌️

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7 months

business = 🚀 twitter = 📈 focus = 🎯 life is good, can't complain

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

never would have expected to be travelling to china 🇨🇳 as a CTO when i dropped out of uni

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Ruben de Groot

3 months

Yesterday was incredibly inspiring So proud of @danielvandalen for pulling this amazing event off and being able to inspire so many people, much more to come Thanks everyone for coming to the event and see you at the next one😎❤️

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

being back in hong kong 🇭🇰 has been great so far. - making amazing moves for @ecomflow3pl - exploring the city - nice diners with friends

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5 months

creating ECS clusters at 30,000 feet to waking up in Dubai 😎🇦🇪

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Ruben de Groot

2 months

few days left in phuket any must-sees I shouldn't miss?

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Back in this crazy city for a bit 🇭🇰

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Learned last week how easy it is to create a route connected popup modal with Next.js its parallel routes. Thanks for teaching me @wouterdebruijn 😎. @nextjs app folder + @shadcn dialog + parallel routes (+ some @tailwindcss of course) Code:

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

Had an amazing week in 🇨🇳 with the team. Back in Barcelona 🇪🇸 now! Was amazing to see @danielvandalen & @VinceNijhof in their element, building out a whole logistics operation in our new office 🛫. Apart from that we took the time to align and set the vision for the coming

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

Rolling out new features for @ecomflow3pl to support more last-mile carriers. Currently we already support 40+ worldwide carriers but we keep improving everyday.

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

So apparently the guys of @framer have this investment fund called @festina . It is all focused on software companies that have really good UX. Funny to see that at @blankstudioo we use about 50% of the companies in their portfolio. And we use @framer itself of course 😎.

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

a good start of the weekend with @jurbranderhorst

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

Running with the boys @danielvandalen @wojteklesinski

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Ruben de Groot

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4 reasons why you should start shipping faster: - faster feedback loops -> accelerates product development - customers like quick improvements -> higher customer satisfaction - motivation -> it creates a company culture of progress and accomplishments - catch on to issues sooner

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

How to keep overview and structure as a CTO? 👀🛠️ - @NotionHQ for documentation and note-taking. - @linear to keep track of software projects, bugs & roadmaps. - @SlackHQ for internal and external communication. - @github to store code. - @browsercompany for a decluttered

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

best @raycastapp extensions for developers: - @code : easily navigate between projects with the "Search Recent Projects" command. ps. add a shortcut to it. - window management: i setup 'SHIFT+⌘+/' for 'Maximize' - @tailwindcss : quickly search for documentation. - colorslurp: for

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

At @blankstudioo we like to work efficiently 😉

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6 months

quick trip to 🇳🇱 for mum’s birthday

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Spend my Friday evening building an admin panel for a new product (👀 @VinceNijhof @danielvandalen @wojteklesinski )

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Ruben de Groot

2 months

favourite new tech i have been using lately: - @inngest : queueing for background tasks, integrates seamlessly with next.js - @pipedream : quickly set up development specific automations - @BetterStackHQ : great logging / monitoring, nice integration with @vercel

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

My favourite and easiest daily habit: inbox zero. I do it at the beginning of my workday and at the end. The idea is to just go through every text, Slack message, email, notes page or any other inbox you have and make sure nothing is left unread or unprocessed. Gives so much

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

The best channels on YouTube to learn coding 👨‍💻 if you are starting out in my opinion are: - @thenetninjauk 🥷: I owe him my React skills. He has great stuff on Next.js as well. He has a lot of playlists on many many different technologies and frameworks. - Coding Garden 🌳: The

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

@marc_louvion Getting there 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Ruben de Groot

2 months

One year later.

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1 year

@marc_louvion Getting there 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Ruben de Groot

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happy monday, ready to crush this week 😎 gonna be in barcelona 🇪🇸 and amsterdam 🇳🇱 the coming two weeks, who's around?

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

This YouTube video teached me how to use @tailwindcss two years ago. It made me go from a backend dev who knew some HTML+React to a fullstack dev capable of creating complete webapps. Completely changed my career. Thanks to @gavinjoyce for this video.

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Building Intercom's Inbox UI with Tailwind CSS

In this tailwind css tutorial, Peter Meehan rebuilds Intercom's inbox UI from scratch with Tailwind CSS while explaining css and tailwind utility class funda...

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

Best investment as a developer: @SupermavenAI copilot. For $10 a month you 2x your programming speed.

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

The past few weeks have been extremly busy at @ecomflow3pl . We have been setting even stronger foundations, crafted clear roadmaps and improved processes. Now, I finally have time to work on our in-house software again. It is fascinating to see how different it is to make

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Recapping on the @framer event in Barcelona last week where @koenbok hosted an AMA.

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

I really want to get a better technical and practical understanding of AI as a developer. So me being a dev that knows backend, fullstack, networking, DevOps, some low-level what courses/papers/tutorials would you recommend?

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Make sure to not get stuck in the tutorial phase for too long but to actually start making your own (web)apps asap. Remember, languages and frameworks are simply your tools—what matters is what you create with them. Unless, of course, you don’t want to make money. 😎

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

The best channels on YouTube to learn coding 👨‍💻 if you are starting out in my opinion are: - @thenetninjauk 🥷: I owe him my React skills. He has great stuff on Next.js as well. He has a lot of playlists on many many different technologies and frameworks. - Coding Garden 🌳: The

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Ruben de Groot

1 month

surprised by just how good @cursor_ai works. 👀 it's not rocket science but the way it is integrated with the IDE is super well-done.

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

What is that one software idea you have that you think is impossible to make? I am convinced 99% of software ideas can be built.

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Ruben de Groot

10 months

Doing some no-code for a change. Automating our whole onboarding process at @blankstudioo because we can’t handle the demand 😎.

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

Need this asap 👀

@shadcn

shadcn

5 months

we're working on charts for shadcn/ui. 📈

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

Part of the @WHOOP cult since today 🤓

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

trying out @RiversidedotFM for the first time to record the building in public series of our most recent product at @blankstudioo 🛠️ focused on helping d2c brand owners/e-commerce owners join our free saas community at to watch the full episode

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

@danielvandalen we trust the process

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

🌏

@wojteklesinski

Wojtek Lesinski

@wojteklesinski

6 months

exciting things are cooking in shanghai 🇨🇳👀

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Ruben de Groot

2 months

been using @inngest lately – makes building event-driven workflows feel effortless. perfect for staying focused on what matters and shipping faster.

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

A lot of people asked me what @code theme, icons and font I use: - Theme: Atom One Dark - Icons: Material Icon Theme - Font: Roboto Mono Have been using this for the past three years.

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

our software related community on skool is growing super quick (2,6+ members). check it out if you want to get insights into how we build software and get access a huge community of like minded people. link below.

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

Been testing @SupermavenAI chat the past two days. It is working super well, especially as it uses GPT-4o. Currently using it to create my backend infra on AWS with CDK.

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

For @ecomflow3pl the tech team will be focusing the coming weeks on creating a global consolidated backend for all the customer and internal facing webapps. Are there any good Typescript backend frameworks having a tRPC kind of experience that are not GraphQL based? So I want

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Some links: - Coding Garden Backend Node.js project: - The Net Ninja Next.js 13 Crash Course: - The Net Ninja React Course: - The Net Ninja Node.js Course: - Theo’s Modern React

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Node.js Crash Course Tutorial #1 - Introduction & Setup

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

Just setup the @Strava + @WHOOP integration. Works really well.

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Ruben de Groot

2 months

Anyone know a tech/developer/CTO person offering consulting for non-tech entrepreneurs starting or optimizing their SaaS?

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

My favourite @code extensions: - @SupermavenAI copilot: a faster and smarter alternative to GitHub copilot. They have a nice free trial! - @thunder_client REST client: simpler version of @getpostman embedded in @code . - Auto Rename Tag: better DX when writing HTML/JSX. - Better

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

recording a new building in public with @wojteklesinski tomorrow, let me know what you would like us to discuss 😎

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

The people at @upstash asked me to write a blog article about how I use their services! It is about how I handle decoupling webhook data processing in Next.js but also applies to any other serverless hosted webapp. Works like a charm in combination with @vercel ! Check it out!

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Upstash

1 year

New blog! How to use QStash to decouple webhook data processing for guaranteed delivery. by @rubenpdegroot

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

new building-in-public incoming

@wojteklesinski

Wojtek Lesinski

@wojteklesinski

7 months

meetings on the 27th floor

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Ruben de Groot

8 months

Is this a good setup for an async background worker? @fastifyjs + BullMQ hosted on @Railway To add something to the queue you would call an endpoint (job data in body) on the Fastify server. Haven’t tried it out yet but running into some problems using our current solution.

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

Oh yea, and of course: @stripe for processing payments.

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Ruben de Groot

8 months

Am I the only one where setting up a new project always looks like this? 🤓 @vercel

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

Retool = cool, only no-code tool I use as a software engineer

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Retool

7 months

Retool AI now supports @openai ’s newest GPT-4 Turbo model with Vision! Learn more and start building apps with AI at

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Ruben de Groot

9 months

ran my first 10k ever today with @wojteklesinski & @ezjcreative 🏃‍♂️💪🏻

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Ruben de Groot

4 months

Had the time to check it out today, really liking it so far. 👀

@flybayer

Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol

4 months

@rubenpdegroot @Werner There is, check out @Flightcontrolhq

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

Failed this months goal. Doesn't mean I did not make any progress however. I started working on it, designed it, built out the core idea and came up with a monetisation strategy. Along side this project I also did some other cool stuff which I will share soon. 👀

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

My goal for this month: build, design, market and launch my own SaaS and make at least $1 through paying customers.

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

Always feels good to buy a new domain name 🛠️👀 ( to see more) @wojteklesinski @danielvandalen

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Ruben de Groot

5 months

@danielvandalen lullige thumbnail voor mij haha

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Ruben de Groot

9 months

Phone setup 💆‍♂️ @blankspacesapp + @withopal

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@rubenpdegroot

Ruben de Groot

7 months

Our first episode just dropped 😎. Sharing the ins-and-outs of how we build out a whole new B2B SaaS product. From planning 🗓️, design 🎨, development 🛠️ to marketing 🌐 and launch 🚀!

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Wojtek Lesinski

@wojteklesinski

7 months

💥Building in Public: Turning all customer communication into insightful data - Brand Insights We've just shared the first episode on where we build a new SaaS tool for the E-commerce. Check it out and build Brand Insights together with us!

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

this is how we solve problems with software @blankstudioo ⬇️

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Daniel Dalen

@danielvandalen

7 months

this is why almost every founder that wants to build software f*'s up. here's why. (been in the game for 10 years)

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6 months

@obnol1 Minimal with @blankspacesapp

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2 months

@wojteklesinski I really need to get a tan

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

Just updated my personal website, kept it extremely simple haha. The previous version was ugly and outdated.

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2 months

@gideonolagunju_ Typescript, @nextjs , @t3dotgg stack, @Flightcontrolhq , @vercel , @inngest

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

My morning routine is checking PRs 😤😤

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1 month

@kolin53 @wojteklesinski Bali, Pererenan. Took all these pictures in the same area.

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Ruben de Groot

10 months

Canggu -> Uluwatu 🏍️

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6 months

💪🏻😎

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Vince

6 months

this is the answers I am looking for when asking team if they know somebody @rubenpdegroot

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7 months

What side projects are you guys currently working on?

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

What is your preferred LLM stack? I am currently curious to checkout by Claude 3 Haiku by @AnthropicAI in combination with a pre-trained text classification model at @huggingface , to batch process lots of textual data.

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6 months

@sunglassesface Express is nice and still works, you could take a look at fastify which is basically the same but a little bit more modern

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

Going to the @framer meetup in Barcelona tonight, anyone else here coming?

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Ruben de Groot

6 months

That’s nice

@nextjs

Next.js

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VS Code now supports custom editor labels. If you want to change the display of `page`/`layout` (or other Next.js file conventions) you can modify your `settings.json` to change the tab title.

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1 year

Second month in 🇭🇰. So far, so good.

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6 months

@jesse_vanloon @VinceNijhof @danielvandalen @wojteklesinski The best stack: - @nextjs - @tailwindcss - @shadcn UI - @trpcio - @PlanetScale

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Ruben de Groot

7 months

🇨🇳 with the team

@danielvandalen

Daniel Dalen

@danielvandalen

7 months

Another intro that slaps haaaarddddd (this weeks vid). office coming together nicely here in Shanghai.

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Ruben de Groot

1 year

Also, I of course use Typescript for everything. Also when running into the limits of Next.js’ (+Vercel’s) backend capabilities I will host a seperate Typescript backend (with Express, Hono etc) on @Railway . It’s extremely easy to setup and integrates well with Github.

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9 months

@t3dotgg Yes! Definitely looking to hire developers with experience in your tech stack and niche.

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