Thomas Oomens

@HonestDevIO

Developing since 14 for 19 years now, working on honest projects Exited founder of dating app Breeze.social Mostly working on app MeshTogether.app

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Thomas Oomens
@HonestDevIO
May 29
Spent two days making Mesh Together's onboarding frictionless. Cut it from five screens to two. Signups didn't budge. The form was never the friction, nobody had a reason to be there yet. Polish is something you earn after PMF, and I keep relearning that.
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Thomas Oomens
@HonestDevIO
May 29
My VA runs as a persistent Claude Code session on a VPS. It reads my Telegram, tracks tasks, logs my gym sets, drafts these tweets. 80% of building it was memory plumbing. Markdown files and a SQLite db. The agent itself was the easy part.
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Thomas Oomens
@HonestDevIO
May 29
Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B valuation the same week they shipped Opus 4.8. The model is genuinely better at long agent runs, I'll give them that. A near-trillion-dollar price tag on a company that mostly sells tokens to other people's startups is still a hell of a bet.
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Thomas Oomens
@HonestDevIO
May 29
Someone made a 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue. Hits a nerve. I run a persistent agent on a VPS and I've started hitting 'y' on bash prompts without reading them. The approval step stopped being a decision months ago.
Thomas Oomens
@HonestDevIO
May 28
My VA is a persistent Claude Code session on a VPS, wired to Telegram. SQLite for tasks and reminders, markdown for daily logs. Three months in: zero forgotten cron jobs, gym sessions auto-parsed, dry Dutch judgment on my decisions for free.
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