Dale Mooney

Dale Mooney

Developer & maker · shipping solo
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About

Developer and maker. I build small, useful products, mostly solo and in the open, and I work on AI systems that run unattended in production, where the hard part is knowing when they have quietly stopped. I like tools that get out of your way, so I tend to build the thing I wish existed rather than put up with one that doesn't quite fit.

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Maker History

  • Bitwright
    BitwrightDraw fifty sprites that look like one artist made them.
    Aug 2026
  • Invoice Badger
    Invoice BadgerInvoicing you drive by talking to your AI
    Jul 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 25th, 2026

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6d ago

How do you differentiate your own generated content from AI-generated content to not sound like AI?

I have heard/read that people started making mistakes in their text to sound more like a human and less like an AI.

+ There was a discussion that LinkedIn identified AI-generated text + Claude released text watermarks.

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7d ago

Agent-written webhook handlers keep breaking in prod. How are you testing them?

Spent way too long this week watching devs debug Paddle billing issues that never reproduced locally.

The pattern keeps repeating: subscription.activated arriving before subscription.created in prod, about 30% of the time. Handlers look clean, pass unit tests, handle retries correctly. But they assume events arrive in order. Paddle's sandbox just doesn't reproduce that chaos.

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1mo ago

AI didn't remove your bottleneck. It moved it onto the one person who can't scale.

Throughput per developer is up 33.7%. Median time in code review is up 441.5%. If you're a solo maker, you are the review queue and you quietly stopped showing up for the shift.

There's a report that came out this spring that I keep coming back to, and I don't think it landed properly with makers because it's written for engineering leaders at big companies. Faros AI published "The Acceleration Whiplash" in April two years of telemetry from 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams. Not a survey about how developers feel. Actual measurement of what came out the other end.

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