I'm on Product Hunt! + Updates Jun 2026
Experimenting with Claude Code + Mac Mini setup, building mobile apps, and so much more
Hello everyone! It’s Tony 👋
It’s been a while since the last update. Here’s what I’ve been working on recently.
Hacker Residency Group #2
As you may already know, in November last year, I co-hosted an offline event to gather 10 indie hackers in a cool villa in Da Nang city and BUILD together.
We decided to do it again in 2026, and for the past month in May 2026, I’ve been hacking with the group in a villa in Da Nang. You can see the list of all residents in this batch here. This batch, we also invited the OG Tibo Maker to the house for a few weeks to hack with us!
It was so much more fun to build with people who share the same line of work as me. Everyone I talked to, I learned something new that I didn’t know before. I think working in the same place and talking with other people or watching how people work is the best way to 10x your learning and skills.
For example, by watching Eugene demo his Outrank product, I learned an amazing monetization strategy using add-ons. I learned from Irfan how to use Claude Code to build iOS apps (he’s crazy good at it!). I learned about peptides and paywall ideation/optimization from the paywall guy, Jonathan. I learned about Firecracker VM and sandboxes from Bhanu. I can’t list everyone, but I learned a lot.
I don’t know if we can host it the 3rd time, but I surely hope so. The program was run mostly out of sponsors’ money, but one of our co-hosts, David, is looking into a secret long-term plan so we can repeat this experience at least once a year in the beautiful city of Da Nang, Vietnam. The “Annual Indie Summit”!
I’m excited.
I started playing with autonomous agents
One of the most impactful things from the residency program this time for me was the eye-opening experience of seeing how Irfan works with his agents via Claude Code (CC) on a Mac Mini via Telegram.
I have known OpenClaw and other similar harnesses, but I have never really given it a real attempt to do something that’s actually useful, mostly out of fear of prompt injections and other security concerns.
But after talking with Irfan and seeing what CC alone can do these days, I decided to buy a Mac Mini and give CC full permission to the entire machine, including mouse/keyboard/screen controls.
I gave it its own Google account, which it can use to register other accounts like GitHub, Vercel, Fastmail, etc. Then I use the official Telegram MCP (provided by Anthropic) to talk to the bot remotely from my phone.
I (“we”) started working on a few small projects, then I moved on to build a few small iOS apps. iOS development seems to be a complicated enough task that I can test how “autonomous” and smart CC can be, and still provide a useful result that I can use myself.
I built several apps end-to-end, fully remotely via Telegram, and pushed them all the way to the App Store (not just in development). One of the apps I built is Pulse - a Paddle revenue tracking app that I’ve been wanting to use for a few years now (Paddle doesn’t have a mobile app like Stripe!).
You can see the app here https://pulserevenue.app/, everything is built by the bot (who name itself “Otto”), from the app, the website, the screenshots, and the App Store submission. At one point, Otto received a rejection from the App Store reviewer in the middle of the night, opened the App Store Connect dashboard to view the rejection reason, fixed the bug, and resubmitted.
I woke up in the morning seeing the app approved with a brief report.
It was really a big shift in perspective. It hit me really hard. AI can do so much these days with enough tools and context. Most people have no idea.
I could go on and on forever about Otto, Claude Code, and Mac Mini, but I think I will write all of that down somewhere later instead of making this newsletter longer.
One last thing about Otto (I promise), my most recent iOS app, Make A Website, just got approved by Apple literally this morning. You can check it out here https://makeawebsite.app/. This is another idea that I wanted to build for a long time, but I don’t have enough iOS development skills to do it.
Now I feel like I can build everything!
I’m launching TypingMind again today on Product Hunt
Like usual, TypingMind is still my main focus.
I’ve been working on adding Agent Skills to TypingMind. It was released last week.
In the age of agents, the next item on my bucket list is to add some sort of computer/sandbox access to the LLMs on TypingMind.
I mentioned that giving AI agents enough tools and context will be the biggest upgrade for the usefulness of LLMs, so that’s what I’m going to enable for everyone who uses TypingMind as their main driver like me.
During the hacker residency program, a few residents launch on Product Hunt, which reminds me that my last launch on Product Hunt was 3 years ago!
I should have launched every 6 months or so.
In case you don’t know, Product Hunt allows you to launch major features of the same product. I’ve been neglecting doing launches over the past few years, and I kind of regret it. It is such an easy marketing activity that you can do to gain more exposure, keep your customers engaged, and have an opportunity to get more reviews/feedback.
For that reason, I’m launching TypingMind again on Product Hunt today.
Yes, today, Jun 10 - Jun 11, 2026 (launch lasts for 24 hours).
I asked Otto to make a landing page for the launch:
If you have a few minutes today, please go to https://launch.typingmind.com and leave me a message!
My team and I will be available on the launch page throughout the day to say hi and answer any questions you may have!
Thank you for reading!
See you on the launch site and see you again in my next newsletter!
Thank you for all the support! ❤️
Tony.