Ken
@kenn 🌰
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
- Nomad
- atsynct.com
- Joined June 2026
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TentaDev
@tentadev
Helping indie founders grow their SEO and DR through relevant site collaborations. indiechains.com
15 Following
4 Followers
Indie Chains
@indie-chains
TentaDev
@tentadev
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TentaDev
@tentadev
Helping indie founders grow their SEO and DR through relevant site collaborations. indiechains.com
15 Following
4 Followers
Indie Chains
@indie-chains
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TentaDev
@tentadev
Helping indie founders grow their SEO and DR through relevant site collaborations. indiechains.com
15 Following
4 Followers
Indie Chains
@indie-chains
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• 3mos
Discussion
Been shipping hard on Indie Chains
The goal: make it easier for indie founders to get reviewed, get discovered, and turn launches into relevant collaboration opportunities.
- Lifetime access
- Cleaner pricing
- Domain-first onboarding
- Landing page polish
- Launchpad for new product
The goal: make it easier for indie founders to get reviewed, get discovered, and turn launches into relevant collaboration opportunities.
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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Ken
@kenn
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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• 3mos
Hmmm ... interesting. So ... is it a sort of launch directory that then tries to pair you with possible collaboration opportunities?
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Tim
@shippedbytim
Founder of Commune. Indie Builder.
215 Following
19 Followers
Commune
@commune
Tim
@shippedbytim
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Tim
@shippedbytim
Founder of Commune. Indie Builder.
215 Following
19 Followers
Commune
@commune
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• 3mos
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Tim
@shippedbytim
Founder of Commune. Indie Builder.
215 Following
19 Followers
Commune
@commune
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• 3mos
Idea
@kenn heya, just a quick tip for Atsynct! I think it would be a great idea to increase the session lifetime longer. I noticed I had to re-login a few times, which adds a friction point to users (compared to when you go back to X and it's always there for example).
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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Ken
@kenn
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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• 3mos
Thanks @shippedbytim ! Yeah ... I've been doing a lot of work around the auth processes lately (for PWA and native app routes) and will add some long-lived login refresh tokens very soon.
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toby marshman
@tobymarshman
8 Following
3 Followers
Geograph
@geograph
HapticPad
@hapticpad
toby marshman
@tobymarshman
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toby marshman
@tobymarshman
8 Following
3 Followers
Geograph
@geograph
HapticPad
@hapticpad
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• 3mos
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toby marshman
@tobymarshman
8 Following
3 Followers
Geograph
@geograph
HapticPad
@hapticpad
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• 3mos
Discussion
I built a Mac app that lets you feel links and buttons through your trackpad's haptic motor - would love your feedback!
Problem
Browsing the web is purely visual, which quietly taxes your attention every time you click.
You're constantly making small visual checks to confirm your cursor is actually on a link before you click.
Solution
Your Mac's trackpad has a haptic motor that's barely used. That 'click' you feel is actually a haptic vibration.
Problem
Browsing the web is purely visual, which quietly taxes your attention every time you click.
You're constantly making small visual checks to confirm your cursor is actually on a link before you click.
Solution
Your Mac's trackpad has a haptic motor that's barely used. That 'click' you feel is actually a haptic vibration.
I built a Mac app that lets you feel links and buttons through your trackpad's haptic motor - would love your feedback!
Problem
Browsing the web is purely visual, which quietly taxes your attention every time you click.
You're constantly making small visual checks to confirm your cursor is actually on a link before you click.
Solution
Your Mac's trackpad has a haptic motor that's barely used. That 'click' you feel is actually a haptic vibration. I wanted to put that motor to work.
HapticPad triggers a subtle vibration the moment your cursor hovers over a link or button, so you feel the page's structure instead of just hunting for it visually.
Comparison
There isn't really a direct competitor. The closest things are browser extensions that change link styling (underlines, highlight colors, etc.), but those just change what you see, not what you feel.
HapticPad is the first tool using the trackpad's actual haptic motor for general browsing
Pricing
$5 lifetime, 7 day free trial. Available now on the Mac Store
hapticpad.app/
Problem
Browsing the web is purely visual, which quietly taxes your attention every time you click.
You're constantly making small visual checks to confirm your cursor is actually on a link before you click.
Solution
Your Mac's trackpad has a haptic motor that's barely used. That 'click' you feel is actually a haptic vibration. I wanted to put that motor to work.
HapticPad triggers a subtle vibration the moment your cursor hovers over a link or button, so you feel the page's structure instead of just hunting for it visually.
Comparison
There isn't really a direct competitor. The closest things are browser extensions that change link styling (underlines, highlight colors, etc.), but those just change what you see, not what you feel.
HapticPad is the first tool using the trackpad's actual haptic motor for general browsing
Pricing
$5 lifetime, 7 day free trial. Available now on the Mac Store
hapticpad.app/
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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Ken
@kenn
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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• 3mos
Have you considered pitching this product with an eye toward accessibility? I could see an extension like this one being very useful to, and appreciated by, people with vision challenges.
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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Ken
@kenn
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Ken
@kenn
20 years of experience as a SWE
Currently nomading, independent contracting, and building my own products
@AtSynct on X
1 Following
4 Followers
Synct
@synct
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• 3mos
Discussion
Thanks for fixing the streak issue. Two more quick bug reports:
1 - Attaching an image before typing text just fails silently. After typing text, it works fine. It would probably be a better user experience if a user could either add an image before adding text or if an error/information message appeared and told a user that they need to add text before attaching an image. I almost gave up entirely on the idea of adding images, it was only a coincidence that I found that
1 - Attaching an image before typing text just fails silently. After typing text, it works fine. It would probably be a better user experience if a user could either add an image before adding text or if an error/information message appeared and told a user that they need to add text before attaching an image. I almost gave up entirely on the idea of adding images, it was only a coincidence that I found that
Thanks for fixing the streak issue. Two more quick bug reports:
1 - Attaching an image before typing text just fails silently. After typing text, it works fine. It would probably be a better user experience if a user could either add an image before adding text or if an error/information message appeared and told a user that they need to add text before attaching an image. I almost gave up entirely on the idea of adding images, it was only a coincidence that I found that it works (I clicked to add an image again after starting to type, to confirm the error result, and saw it worked when text exists).
2 - The screenshot shows the next issue ... there are duplicate posts shown in the For You feed. I can see why -- while the root post is the same, there are two different replies that the For You algorithm wants to show me. It looks very awkward and redundant though.
1 - Attaching an image before typing text just fails silently. After typing text, it works fine. It would probably be a better user experience if a user could either add an image before adding text or if an error/information message appeared and told a user that they need to add text before attaching an image. I almost gave up entirely on the idea of adding images, it was only a coincidence that I found that it works (I clicked to add an image again after starting to type, to confirm the error result, and saw it worked when text exists).
2 - The screenshot shows the next issue ... there are duplicate posts shown in the For You feed. I can see why -- while the root post is the same, there are two different replies that the For You algorithm wants to show me. It looks very awkward and redundant though.
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