As a indie hacker/SaaS founder, I have found it surprisingly useful. Allowed me to connect with likeminded people, gain customers, discuss interesting topics. With the right circle, LinkedIn can actually be nice.

I don’t necessarily agree with his political opinions. And that’s a huge understatement.

But DHH has, and continues, to do a lot to share his obvious passion and endless curiosity for tech. I’m not going to stop following him and enjoying his work just because he is not as woke as I am. Politics is not everything.

He a self important egotistic who's finally admitted he's been wrong the whole time and "discovered" what's been under his nose for over 20 years after all the people he kept shitting on did all the hard work to make Linux a fantastic option for dev work.

That sounds unnecessarily harsh. Dark theme is far from necessary (although nice) and English-only still means most Proton users can use it.

Better to start somewhere and improve based on feedback than wait endlessly.

Dark theme is an accessibility issue for people with eye diseases like mine. If you both need high luminance contrast and have photophobia, dark themes are the only ones that are usable.

There are workarounds, like inverting all the colors on your screen, but they suck.

You can also use the Dark Reader browser extension [0], an open-source extension for Chromium and Firefox that works on most websites (including Hacker News) in the dynamic mode, restyling the page to a dark theme!

[0]: https://darkreader.org/

When I can access something in the browser rather than only via native apps, I rely heavily on Dark Reader, Midnight Lizard, and Page Shadow. Love all three to death

I agree with both of you. GP was harsh, but I personally think dark theme is necessary (and a very basic feature). However, I am grateful that Proton released this as I always felt _icky_ using tools like Grok or ChatGPT. I'm sure improvements will not take long to arrive.

I would love to see a source for this.

What's wrong with real-world performance? It's not perfect but it's pretty amazing with proper guidance.

I’m building https://lorelight.ai/, a way for brands to monitor AI chatbots and see how they talk about their brands, watch for disinformation etc.

Still early stage but building it has been fun.

Ironically, that’s exactly how I feel going to a pub. I don’t really care for beer so anything works for me but I’m often expected to choose from many.

Maybe I’m just not your target customer but I honestly have no idea why I would want to replace DocuSign or how your tool is different. You may want to clarify your positioning.

We are validating whether this truly constitutes an issue and if there is potential for innovation in this area.

Right now, an AI tool that generates mockups for branding agencies. But I’m still validating the idea so who knows. Ideally, I would like a stack that would work for most SaaS I may think of building. Tempted to give Elixir Phoenix a try. I briefly tried it a few years back and it just felt right.

As it's just you I'd stick with Ruby on Rails 8[1] as you already know it and I think it could realistically easily achieve what you're proposing.

There's lots of libraries for calling out external AI services. e.g. something like FastMCP[2]. From the sound of it that's all you need.

I'd use Hotwire[3] for the frontend and Hotwire Native if you want to rollout an app version quickly. I'd back it with SolidCache, SolidQueue, etc

I'd use Kamal[4] to run it on cheap hosting using on something cheap from Hetzner.

1. https://rubyonrails.org/

2. https://github.com/yjacquin/fast-mcp

3. https://hotwired.dev/

4. https://kamal-deploy.org/

That’s a good point about the integration. I mostly need to make API calls and have an app that’s easy enough to maintain as a solo founder so it’s mostly a matter of finding the stack that feels right.