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[@fknight]

UPDATE 2/12/2024: I've moved all of the following videos in this series to this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLp_L1ltSVItxLzsF7599xtBPQm6hQ05MV I've let scope creep take over this project lol, but I'm in the final stages of the MVP. I'll have private beta testers onboarding soon, then I'll launch the public MVP after any silly mistakes are hashed out. Stoked!

[@papipapajohn]

programming jesus

[@fknight]

lol every time

[@theencryptedpartition4633]

Anti Gilfoyle

[@SyedMSawaid]

Rich Harris is also Jesus, but only for front end.

[@lazyman2451]

@@fknightit would be cool to have a platform that also focuses on personal profile detail design. But I guess it’s too much to ask.

[@Juzzyjuzzy]

lol someone has finally said it

[@JulioCesar9482]

Was nice to see the process you go through when not understand something. On KZbin seems like everybody has a clear understanding of everything, so seen someone struggle as much as I do makes me feel like I'm not doing something so wrong.

[@ArthurSantos-go4qw]

Agreed. Love the authenticity of the video

[@TheAces1979]

Hey man, I just wanted to say this stream of consciousness style format is pretty rad. Even just outside feeding your chickens and thinking out loud. I found it comforting to know I'm not the only one who walks around and thinks like that. Strangely meditative as well. Keep it up, man! I dig it!

[@user-oe7ob8pw1g]

Super excited for this. I’ve been following you for years and I think this is the most excited I’ve been for your content!!! Love what you’re doing man. Excited to watch!

[@donenv]

loved the chickens, and the scenary. Working on an mvp myself and love how you take us through your thought process, cannt wait for Day 2

[@studycenter-za]

Great video. I absolutely love seeing founders/devs documenting their startup journey.

[@sloowax]

Wow 48 mins of good content! Thx you Forrest!

[@juanakajuan7358]

I love these longer videos and showing us your though process behind this whole project.

[@martingomez8142]

Great to see you back. Very excited for the videos. Much success

[@alexiscoding]

I like the raw footage! I’m going to definitely keep watching the follow up

[@sbstorage95]

Sounds like a great idea! Good luck 😀 Really liked the candid style of this video, Insights where awesome👍🏻

[@PatrickFassler]

Loved this video style and the concept behind it all. Hope to see more of this series!

[@CodingWithLewis]

Rolling up with the dirt bike in the end is a massive flex. Looking forward to seeing more stuff like this!

[@fknight]

Had to 😂

[@meghanadhv]

Wow I can't believe you are doing this, I am so excited!!

[@mistersir3185]

that is a next level original content right there. Love it bro

[@TheAndrei8]

Great video series! look forward to following along as I too am working on building and selling something similar; a mobile application. And the business side is for sure important and I appreciate that being covered too!

[@KeithFlint350]

This is exactly the content I was looking for! Thank you!

[@JonathanLeeDev]

This entire video and series idea is just awesome!

[@duncanireri3050]

I like the format a lot. Pretty nice and getting into your mind to understand your train of thought, pretty interesting.

[@coco-memos]

I absolutely find benefits listening to your journey through a video series! Plus farm content? I think I found the niche KZbinr I’ve been searching for 😂

[@fknight]

Lol love to hear it!

[@bunnybal]

It really has been a long time since I enjoyed a KZbin video so much. I love the new video series you are planning here. I also noticed that a lot of work went into it, and I especially liked that you just talked so freely and shared your thoughts with us 😊

[@Tzuna21]

im excited for this journey, im currently starting first year csc, definitely excited to learn

[@68MrMjp]

awesome, im excited to follow along.

[@marcoa6142]

Following you for years! And now I feel like I want to run a chicken farm too😂Your authenticity is just something that we all appreciate and that is truly amazing! As always best of the wishes in whatever you’re doing amigo! 👊🏽😊

[@callumccr]

Hey man, I love this style series. I wish I documented some of my projects, I might actually finished them! I've used quite a few different AI's to assist in coding and my favourite so far has been using ChatGPT as more of a Junior dev. Writing smaller functions and classes and writing or planning tests. I tend to work on larger projects that don't use publicly available frameworks, so getting an AI to grasp the context of the code base has always been a bit of a issue. They way I see single vs multi tenant apps, is a single is one deployment per customer. Multi-tenant is a multi use deployment. So if you were to write a CRM, designed to be self hosted, this would be single. A multi version of this would be a SaaS CRM, like Hubspot etc.

[@mnothing1325]

i will 100% be using your platform !!

[@sociop]

These videos like this motivate me to start working

[@Jdmorris143]

I enjoyed the idea of business talk. As a young dev, I use the "why" as a means of guessing how others would react to changes. I think I will enjoy this series.

[@SoftwareFactory_]

when i started i was about to give up, but i found hope when i finally make an app work

[@dorutu]

The cut to th chickens made my day Forrest!

[@unhstk1958]

Loved all the info and details I would like to keep hearing more so even if you decide it is not popular to share in such detail would you create a second channel for people like me to hear more?

[@LazerLemonz]

I love that I just got rubber duckied for 48 mins straight lmaooo 10/10!

[@timbouma6]

Have a look at the t3 stack with app router for building your platform

[@redcell2]

"The more I read the more I get confused" - Programmer reading other programmer's code.

[@jackstrickland7512]

Single Tenant vs Multi Tenant Most of the applications in my company are single tenant. As an example the company I work for has a base product. And then for each project we get, we create a new branch for the individual project based off the most updated version of base. We then deploy this new isolated version of code with its own database, server instance, etc. That piece of software would then be updated and modified by a project team dev for creating project specific features. These are single tenant apps and completely isolated from each other. Their own domain, their own user accounts. The only thing they share is a base product version when they first get spun up but ultimately they remain completely separate from then on. For multi tenancy (in my example), you might have one code base and then based on user access or account info, change features or views. This can also work but for our company, it’s highly regulated so things need to remain completely separate. We manage all of our tenants on Octopus which is a super helpful tool for deployments. Hopefully that example helps a little

[@Salamaleikum80]

I really love your channel, i think mainly because you are relatable. Do you have videos on how to do youtube/create content on the side? I am studying computer science and working half time but i also try to create content as well. It just seems like a lot to get everything in live under the hood. Working out, girlfriend, study, work, youtube. Very challenging.

[@spikero]

I was making a coffee and when I looked back at phone this guy started feeding the chickens 😂 love your content ❤

[@robbyface3707]

Coding Sam Sulek

[@anonymeister123]

Lmfao

[@safouanebazine]

Xd that's a good one 😂😂

[@AustroPower]

😂😂😂

[@mareczekdynamit9497]

Damn, Sam Sulek style vlog is something else

[@MrBowmanXD]

cool concept

[@yoJuicy]

bro would love to see how you get a VPS, linux, docker, nginx setup with a next.js app and DB/backend with next.

[@samymmr8960]

This has Sam Sulek vibes but for programmers I LOVE IT

[@leomangold]

Hey great video! For me personally the marketing and business side of things would be the more interesting side

[@drew.2030]

why dd i just stumble on this guy's videos this late 😭 but i see myself watching him until my youtube stops working if it can 🤓

[@jesseparrott3518]

"The more I read the more I get confused" story of my software engineering work.

[@Th3Seb]

Yeah its a bit weird at NextJS with the App Directory and the Pages Directory, but for my understanding, the app Dir is the new one since NextJS 13 or something and the Pages is the old version of Routing. And in the Documentation You can switch between App and Pages Routing, so it's just which one you would prefer more. But I am new to NextJS so I don't really know that much, just what I read overall and experienced myself in the last few weeks :)

[@theintjengineer]

I was more interested in the countryside life haha. So freaking cool, Mate. That's also my goal. 21:50

[@jorgerias262]

Interested to see how it goes.

[@bruhverlybruh4012]

I don't program but I dropped by for a like for the algorithms sake. Peace ✌️

[@LascelleMckenzie]

Nice video 🔝💯

[@safouanebazine]

Bro just keep making videos of u thinking while farming pls and good luck ❤

[@Key101]

yes please explain the business side

[@greed7513]

Nice! looks clean and feels fast. Design is a little bit too css framework'd and console shows a bunch of 403s, particularly fetching Helvetica font (isn't Helvetica like native to browsers lol) and a couple layout shift errors (worrying), so styling isn't working that great. Other than that, works great! congrats

[@void2991]

Yay!! First viewer, first like🤌🏿

[@houssamassila6274]

start clapping your hands shouting "developpers! developpers!" love your videos btw they are awesome.

[@rudrprasad7543]

Bros underrated af

[@phillipnunes86]

Hey, do you have more infos or links about those Vercel concerns you mentioned? Thanks

[@sarravi1]

Seemed to me that single tenant meant something like Discord, where everyone has their own server, and they can invite people to their server, but multi tenant would be something like Reddit, where you can create your own subreddit and invite people, but people can also just come and join? But then I think it'd make more sense for them to be called private vs public tenants or something.

[@deadhead6099]

I can watch you do chicken chores and talk for hours. Good stuff mang

[@devslikeme]

I don't know but the start of the video gives me sam sulek vibes :D

[@ryannathanwilson]

I assumed multitenant was like jira, where company that purchases it gets their own instance.

[@Aradermc22]

love this! ive been a software engineer for 5 years. anychance i could help on the project?

[@Sebastian-zs8cp]

will this series cover something like that a customer comes you don't know what the customer wants and you work out everything with him? i need something like that because i want to make customized software for customers and i don't know how to build it and i have no one to support me and no company behind me to show me a way and i think you are competent for that. if this is not the series can you please make a complete series just about how the kick off 0% looks like up to 100%?

[@charles.direct]

Hey! Could it be possible that you misunderstood Vercel’s terms? The specific section in the Vercel Terms of Service regarding sublicensing is found in Section 3, “Your Content.” It states: “By posting Your Content on or through the Services, you grant Vercel a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, copy, modify, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, store and perform Your Content only in connection with its provision of the Services and for security to protect the Services and third parties from fraud, malware, malicious files or content, viruses and the like” . The important part here is: "only in connection with its provision of the Services and for security to protect the Services and third parties from fraud, malware, malicious files or content, viruses and the like” .

[@fotgaxton]

You're dope, tis all.

[@dimashishov7019]

Some Sam Sulek vibes here 😅 It's cool tho 😎

[@preludeofme]

You should do a full comparison of copilot and chatgpt in a separate video

[@tylerzika]

Have you considered building with Obsidian?

[@user-mq9dy2lj5u]

How is this any different from the 100s of "Dev Notes" news applications out there?

[@patrickhollywood93]

6th 🔥 ❤

[@ieatwebsites]

This is fun! Can we contribute?

[@rachelradford5193]

Hey, I am an iOS dev living in VB. If you ever decide to go the mobile app route, I'd love to contribute. The upside to having a mobile app is you could generate revenue with ads and if a user subscribes, they can have an ad free experience. Just a thought!

[@user-dv3rr7iv8z]

Will it be on chain?

[@cristophergutierrez6241]

no one have ever think about that idea, you must be albert einstein.

[@TheBadBone23]

How would one start learning development? I'm 33 and looking into making a career change but I have close to 0 experience in this area. I've been around technology for more than half of my life and dabbled with many computer related areas

[@BeUnadulterated]

I am in the process of change as well so I don't have all the answers, but do you know what kind of dev work you would like to do? That might help define the path you go down, the languages you should focus on, the frameworks, the tools, etc.

[@Miralhas42069]

cs50 courses are a good way to start.

[@raunak51299]

An ad based model would probably be better than subscription based.

[@izzyzapata6236]

Programing Sam Sulek vibes

[@progi99]

intresting place fro microfone)))

[@abhishekpatra7954]

I fear if any serial killer is roaming nearby

[@jordixboy]

so... a forum?

[@macadenforrest7705]

Programming and farming? Plus we both have Forrest in our name? Are we the same person? Lol

[@faizanahmed9304]

just sub your channel and will be following you!

[@solomonakinbiyi]

Seriously, Vercel's licensing headline issue is scary.

[@ThinqK]

build a platform for people that want to build platforms.

[@adarshchhokar3818]

take my advice when I tell you that when you discuss what your subscribers think you should do, DO IT LIVE on youtube or twitch

[@willhleucka821]

sam sulek mic on the hat lol

[@redbeardjunior]

Nope never will post on Vercel host it myself, there are expensive anyway.

[@theencryptedpartition4633]

You're like Anti-Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley

[@JVolzke]

I see my house lol

[@babayaga5620]

Jesus, need a fellow to collaborate? Am kinda interested

[@vracar2667]

Sam sulek of coding

[@Akmol_Ali341]

Jesus is back

[@drakata27]

let him cook

[@kimsangthanh5376]

19:19 your video is so fun to watch ever.❤, but you look so lonely brother❤.

[@MarkCodes]

Sam Sulek content type

[@danJmcneil]

what in the sam sulek is this intro

[@theovasilopoulos5499]

What's this guy yappin about

[@darianmorat]

Programmer Sam Sulek

[@redlynt7324]

What’s on your hat by the way? 🤔

[@fknight]

Just the name of a tractor dealership and a John Deere logo on the side. Got it for free at an agriculture expo near my house