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Diego Dotta
@diegodotta.bsky.social
People watcher, slow rider, bug eater.
Building in public https://diego.horse/ (っ-,-)つ𐂃
Hey @epidemian.bsky.social , one more for you! Thanks again for the inspiration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i1P...
Tiny Mario, a URL bar game!
YouTube video by Diego Dotta
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November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Weekend little game inspired by @epidemian.bsky.social URL Snake. diego.horse/jump
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Inspired by @freedomflotilla.bsky.social , I've done some research on current conflict zones around the world, and it's quite staggering. Air Fiesta has been cancelled in many places.
October 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Still having a blast with airfiesta.fm, grabbed the flock algo from @jtr.dev and tweaked it to make custom birds using simple shapes. Added Parrots from Telegraph Hill in SF and Pigeons from Paris. This inspired to make a whole game based on flocks, they’re super cool.
Parrots from Telegraph Hill and Pigeons from Paris
YouTube video by AirFiestaFM
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October 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Having fun working on a multiplayer game + hot air balloon simulation + scavenger hunt. Thanks @fortkenmei.bsky.social for the review and insights.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW47...
Join the Fiesta, AirFiesta.FM!
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September 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I spent about 50 days building it, another 50 days watching it float. In that time, 8k people climbed aboard. At one point 167 players were trying to steer it at the same time. Along the way 234 local radios played and the balloon wandered across thousands of miles. diego.horse/airtales-whe...
Airtales: When the Balloon Landed - Diego Dotta
Airtales was never meant to last forever. I even had a line on the roadmap asking when and where the balloon would land. Still, it drifted across Google Earth like a stubborn daydream, a collective ri...
diego.horse
September 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
LOL, this Tea Time Alarm thing cracked me up! teatime.london #TeaTimeAlarm #TeaTime #BritainsGotTalent
The British Tea Time Alarm
Waiting for the Tea Time Alarm – join me!
teatime.london
May 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Apparently, Neuralese is the most spoken language you'll never speak. Meanwhile, I’m over here still struggling with basic human sentences. 🤷‍♂️🤖 #Neuralese #LanguageGoals diego.horse/neuralese-th...
Neuralese: The Most Spoken Language You’ll Never Speak - Diego Dotta
Somewhere between thinking and speaking, there’s a strange place where meaning starts to solidify. It’s not quite a word yet. More like a haze of associations. A mental sketch your brain tries to tran...
diego.horse
May 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Built an app to avoid learning languages. Ended up building two platforms, rewriting everything twice, and somehow still feeling productive. Smart Keys for Mac is here, bugs and all.

🧠 minimal
⌨️ flow-friendly
🐛 lovingly buggy

Read: diego.horse/the-vibe-lif...
The Vibe Life: Building Smart Keys for Mac - Diego Dotta
I didn’t realize I was about to enter the “vibe” industry when I started building Smart Keys. All I really wanted was a way to sound fluent in languages without doing the hard work. Let’s be real: lea...
diego.horse
April 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Apple’s shiny Benchmark Metrics are BS, don’t be fooled. See my App Store BS and non-BS numbers at diego.horse/store-conver... #BuildInPublic
Store Conversion? More like Store Distraction. - Diego Dotta
Apple’s polished and carefully curated Benchmark Metrics are an illusion, designed to impress on paper but often disconnected from real-world performance. In other words, BS. Apple lays out a glossy p...
diego.horse
February 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Smart Keys store conversion rate is over 50%, while the best apps barely scrape 7%. So either I’m a wizard or this is a BS metric. diego.horse/no-bs-friday... #IndieDev #BuildingInPublic
February 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM