Surprise shadow drop! I’ve been stealth building Strophe, a native iOS ebook reader with on-device text-to-speech. Turn any ebook into an audiobook, import any web articles or text, multiple voices, sound scapes, and way more. No listening limits, no account needed and works offline. I've built this app for myself to replace ElevenReader, Instapaper, Speechify, Apple Books, etc. Just submitted it to the App Store. Available later this week for all iOS devices!

Strophe is on the App Store. an ebook reader that reads to you: EPUBs, PDFs, saved articles, voiced on your iPhone, not a server farm. no account, no word limits, airplane mode works. read at night, listen on the walk, your spot is kept. Try it out brainpad.org/strophe

I would literally hire an intern to market on reddit for me. That’s how much I hate it.

I’m working on something that I’m so hyped about I cannot do or focus on anything else. It’s literally what I do 24/7.

everyone's losing their minds over AI. companies are bolting it onto products that don't need it. investors are throwing money at anything with "AI" in the pitch deck. it's not innovation. it's FOMO dressed up as strategy. when this bubble pops, it's going to make the dot-com crash look like a practice run.

It’s almost magical how Claude can just fill up my SSD in a few minutes of make my CPU go 100% for half a hour just because I want it to change a logo somewhere. I have to add global prompts like “look if there’s a simulator before creating a new one” otherwise it would create dozens of them. Real top engineering material 👌

Doesn’t it look great? Try it now, free, open source and under 5MB. Lightnight fast. github.com/tbergeron/bosk-br…

I love how when you report illegal content on X they just try to upsell you to the more expensive tier with no ads. Like uh don’t like illegal scams? Just hide them!

I’m in a very “let’s rewrite everything to native code” mood today. This October’s going to be “all my apps are now native” month 🥳 anyone doing the same? There’s no reason not to anymore at this point 🤷🏻‍♂️

Notion is crazy because how did they make it feel vibecoded before ai even existed

nobody wants a platform on their phone. they want a tool that works.

don’t do the same mistake i did. don’t put openclaw/hermes agent on your local network to do reddit research. reddit seems to have flagged me as a bot and now i’m being heavily throttled. i can comment once every 10 minutes. makes marketing there insanely frustrating. any advice?

every app update that "improves performance" means "we broke something."

My favorite thing about Bask is that I can just press CMD +SHIFT+R and switch to @kepano’s Deffudle’d version of the opened page thus getting rid of all the fluff instantly. A real time saver. Check it out brainpad.org/bosk

the app store featured tab is not marketing. it's a lottery ticket you can't buy.

i made Bosk, a web browser for macOS. yeah, another browser, i know. small, fast, built on WebKit, under 5MB. no telemetry, no account, no bloat. featuring a reader mode, powered by Defuddle by @kepano, sidebar tabs (can even hide the sidebar), chrome extensions, ad blocker and a command bar for tabs, history and actions. open source, and contributions are welcome. github.com/tbergeron/bosk-br…