Tuesday Letter #36 - Less Project, Your Own Success Metrics
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Personal Updates
- Haven't sent this newsletter in a while. I'm trying to get back in the grove with sharing my work with people, so hopefully this is a revival.
- Working on Ask HN digests lately. I think I pretty much everything I wanted with it, so am going to stop doing active dev on it. Summarizing Ask HN questions, turned out to be more useful than I imagined. Will let it run as is for a while, but will try to thinking about way to monetize this, or at least start bringing in more traffic. If you have thoughts or ideas would love to hear you out.
- Will try to focus on Marketing Agents now. I realized that I'm making it omre complex by trying to be an all marketing suite. Will simplify to be a simple automatic blog generation / posting.
- I've been trying to save all my project ideas in a Google Keep documents. And there is a ton. It kills me that I don't have the time to work on all those things. But I have to focus on profitability on the existing ones, otherwise, they are just a waste of time. Let me know if you want me to share a list of ideas I have come up with.
Quote of the week
"The ultimate success metric is whether you get what you want out of life. But that's harder than it sounds because it's easy to try to copy someone who wants something you don't."
— Collab Fund, Your Way Is the Only Way
This quote hit me because it captures something we all struggle with in our social media age. We're constantly exposed to other people's definitions of success—their dream jobs, lifestyle choices, and achievements—and it's natural to assume we should want the same things. But the real challenge isn't achieving success; it's first figuring out what success actually means to you, not what it means to everyone else you're comparing yourself to.
Cool person I encountered this week
Wassim Alhajomar
I discovered Wassim through his "Programming Vehicles in Games" post, which caught my attention for its technical depth and practical approach to game development.
Wassim is a fascinating combination of software developer and physician currently working in Munich, Germany. He's completing his residency in General Surgery while pursuing his passion for systems programming and game development. Inspired by Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero series, he focuses on building games, engines, and tools from scratch rather than using pre-made solutions. Beyond his dual career in medicine and programming, he's also into music composition, drawing, and painting - truly a renaissance person worth following.
Tweet of the week
Has anyone made a little SaaS hooking up ahrefs to github yet to automatically draft PRs for easy one-line fixes (broken links, overlong H1s, etc.)?
— Justin Duke (@jmduke) August 2, 2025
Yet another awesome idea that I would love to build. Someone should definitely get on this.
Other cool links
- KathaaVerse: Transform Any Book Into your own Interactive Adventure
- Answer.AI: Practical AI R&D
- WallStreetBets Top Trending Stocks: A look at which of Reddit's WallStreetBets stocks are trending and view historical mentions for any ticker.
- Free Ideas — Quarter Mile: There’s a quote I like from architect Christopher Alexander: “Really one of the very largest problems that is facing the Earth just now...
- BizScout: Find Better Off-Market SMB Deals
- Aimchess: Creates cool reports on your past games to give your strength and weaknesses
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