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Philippe Höij
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Our purpose is to strengthen human agency 💪

Get superpowers from structured information with dfrnt.com.

Use explainable rules-based AI and easy decentralised version controlled collaboration to handle model-based graph-structured information.
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Using git-for-data time travelling with TerminusDB saved the day. Our static website builder gave up building our RSS feed today...

Switched GraphQL endpoint to a specific commit, branching, merging, asserting correctness of the metadata. It was too smooth!

Wrote a point on it 🚀 🤩 #buildinpublic
Saving the day with git-for-data revision control and GraphQL for content management
I sat down this morning to update our website and one of the plugins we use now had a field that was mandatory and inconsistently applied…
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Using git-for-data time travelling with TerminusDB saved the day. Our static website builder gave up building our RSS feed today...

Switched GraphQL endpoint to a specific commit, branching, merging, asserting correctness of the metadata. It was too smooth!

Wrote a point on it 🚀 🤩 #buildinpublic
Saving the day with git-for-data revision control and GraphQL for content management
I sat down this morning to update our website and one of the plugins we use now had a field that was mandatory and inconsistently applied…
hoijnet.medium.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just published up my honest review.

I compare the reMarkable 2 and Paper Pro experiences.

They are both eInk paper devices, the Paper Pro with colour.

Both are great, but I chose not to upgrade in the end.

The felt tip experience of the RM2 is irreplaceable.

Hoping for a future felt tip upgrade
Honest review: The reMarkable 2 is better than the Paper Pro
I don’t regret my decision to return my Paper Pro. This is my breakdown of why I returned my Paper Pro within the 100 days.
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January 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Finally, it's out there.

I have procrastinated this blogpost for too long.

It shows how to implement taxonomies and master data management using the software I built.

This is super hard to build correctly and in a trustworthy way using traditional databases and knowledge graphs.

#buildinpublic
Build advanced collaborative taxonomies using hypergraphs
In the enterprise you’re often faced with digital business information that is hard to process using traditional approaches. Far too many…
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December 15, 2024 at 8:53 AM
I'm so proud!

We're hosting a 2 day workshop with 25 people (!) from one of our enterprise customers at our own offices in Lund, Sweden.

So much to do and great results from the first day yesterday!

So happy for the progress!
December 12, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Please help?

I'm looking for a specific quote on innovation, it might have been cited in Harari's books.

Innovation breakthrough often happens when technology gets a user interface, making the innovation available to broader markets.

The browser, app store, ChatGPT for NLP/AI.

#buildinpublic
December 7, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Graph-structured information + rules-based AI = awesome

On Monday we show the power of unification with a user interface.

Learn how to leverage old-school logic-based AI, reborn into the cloud age by combining knowledge graphs with a datalog.

Join our webinar, Monday at 16.00CET 🚀

#buildinpublic
@dfrnt.com Joins @bsky.app:

💡We turn messy CSV files into structured knowledge graph objects!

On Dec 9th, we’ll show how WOQL + Twinfox Platform empowers you to:

1. Combine CSVs into structure-enforced graphs

2. Structure your Information

👉Join us! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 3, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Who's my mysterious 400th follower in the #buildinpublic community?

Amazing community growth over the past week here!

Love newfound friends and builders out there 🚀
December 3, 2024 at 6:23 PM
The kinds of AI to use matters.

How AI is used matters more.

All stochastic AI have biases, such as ML and LLMs.

We don't want competitive AI, that compete with us.

You want COMPLEMENTARY AI, that makes us better.

With rules-based AI, you have no bias. You use rules.

Combine for good outcomes
November 29, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Roast my micropitch.

With dfrnt.com, our purpose is to strengthen human agency 💪

We put deep tech in the human loop.

Our platform enables easy collaboration and results from model-based structured information with explainable rules-based AI.

Making the hard easy.

#buildinpublic
November 28, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Wow! 10x the followers over the weekend.

The #buildinpublic community moved over in earnest.

Seems things are settling down a bit since the weekend.

I had 35 followers last week, now I have 333 followers 🚀

Honored, looking forward to contributing.

We're launching our next webinar soon!
November 27, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Thank you so much for the kind words @safka.com ❤️
Don't worry Philippe. You have outstanding product! I admire any developer who is able to "sell" his/her own craft...
November 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Failed hard yesterday.

Was so nervous I failed our demo.

The software did exactly what it should. But I didn't follow the right sequence.

Got super nervous and stressed from not rehearsing enough.

The webinar was about git-like content graph collaboration with push and pull.

#buildinpublic
November 26, 2024 at 7:01 PM
More than 200 followers over the weekend. #buildinpublic on Bluesky is exploding 💥

And, our purpose to strengthen human agency 💪 seems to relate.

I believe the only relevant approach is a human-centric one.

Agree?
November 25, 2024 at 12:17 PM
So tell us, what is the burning purpose for what you are building?

Start with why! (Simon Sinek)

How do you accomplish that?

#buildinpublic
November 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM
We doubled our paid customer base for our pro subscription.

From September to November at dfrnt.com. With updated pricing and new features.

Since then I have onboarded a team who are learning fast. It's super exciting times for my #buildinpublic project.

RDF KGs, git-like collab, and datalog 🚀
November 24, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Philippe Höij
Created a Build in Public starter pack. 🎉

If you're an indie hacker building in public, feel free to join:

👉 Share your project below
🧡Like this post for the algo push
🔄 Repost this for visibility

go.bsky.app/PvitcMe
November 20, 2024 at 7:59 PM
What's the piece of #buildinpublic infrastructure you find most challenging to have to deal with?

That thing, if made easy, would make all the difference.

To build faster, cheaper, better?
November 24, 2024 at 1:41 PM
It's Sunday.

Reflect on the week ahead.

What key steps to take?

I will be thinking about what to ask help for from my ecosystem.

What will move your things the most?

Will you do it?

#buildinpublic
November 24, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Philippe Höij
Thank all that is holy for Bluesky 🦋
November 24, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Reposted by Philippe Höij
the following strategy helped me selling my b2b product #buildinpublic

my product is full of sharp edges and missing quite some features to fit

I was struggling to sell it

I switched to sell paid pilots 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Reposted by Philippe Höij
Bluesky, with a well curated follow list, has already replaced Twitter for me as the place to immediately see what's happening of relevance to me as a media producer in the independent media space
November 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
For you that code in typescript, how valuable would it be to have a modelling tool for building deep nested types and easily copy them?

Idea is to be able to work with object definitions visually and be able to use a graph datalog engine to process objects as a graph with datalog.

#buildinpublic
November 24, 2024 at 1:13 AM
I have a presentation to make on Monday.

I'm torn. Help me choose. Just answer 1. or 2.

Bonus points for why!

1. rules-based AI
2. logic-based AI

#buildinpublic
November 23, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by Philippe Höij
Indiehackers that just joined BlueSky!

Are you looking to follow other indiehackers building in public?

I created a Build in Public starter pack for you! 🥳

If you want to be included:

👉 Comment what you are building
🔄 Repost to help others

#BuildInPublic

go.bsky.app/H7Ey2GR
November 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Reposted by Philippe Höij
so true!

i once tried to sell my b2b product to 3 sales dudes

they grilled me 😂

“Only from the thirtieth minute did you start asking meaningful questions.“

they told me to start asking questions way earlier during demo calls

so that I can align the demo better with prospects needs
November 23, 2024 at 7:03 PM