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James Ivings
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Bootstrapping products while travelling around the world! 🌊⛵🌍

🙅‍♂️ Easily unsubscribe from emails 👉 https://leavemealone.com
What we we're promised:
> AI will take your shit job

What we got:
> Your job is now supervising AI doing the same shit job you were doing but it's doing it worse
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Merry Christmas from Chiang Mai! 🇹🇭🎄🎉

A bit different to last year lol ⛵🐟🌊
December 25, 2024 at 5:17 AM
my toxic trait is that I will always buy the weirdest flavour chips
December 24, 2024 at 8:12 AM
It's Thursday so that means it's the meeting of the Bangkok people who ship stuff! 🚀

We changed intros to 10:30 this week which was much better for the lazy Bangkok people 😂

Soon we'll do demos, then spicy food and beers 🍻
December 12, 2024 at 9:14 AM
When the 10th customer in a row asks if they can still get the Black Friday discount 💀
December 7, 2024 at 6:46 AM
This is our weekly session of founders who ship in Bangkok - Hackumvit! 🚀

We have a morning standup where we share what were shipping today, then focus! At 5pm we demo. Then we go for spicy food + beers together 🍻

But I've got to get used to no-one being able to do anything before 11am here 😆
December 6, 2024 at 2:24 AM
🚨 PSA - before you buy a cute new gTLD for your project, bear in mind that the cute ones are being overwhelmingly used for phishing scams

It will be harder to build email reputation with .xyz .shop etc - you'll go to spam

Always better to stick with .com

Source krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-...
December 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Last night we ordered on Grab minutes before going to sleep, and woke up to a freshly baked sourdough this morning 😋🍞

Bangkok is the best 🇹🇭♥️
November 27, 2024 at 3:17 AM
I'm already bored of Black Friday emails, so I've made a blocklist for any matching emails in leavemealone.com so they don't land in my inbox 💪

AND after Cyber Monday I'll just automatically unsubscribe from all of them 🤪🙅‍♂️
November 26, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Starter Packs were such a killer idea

A have a few friends who tried to get started with X and they always had the same complaint - my feed is full of garbage and people I don't care about!

Now I can send then a starter pack of cool people and they can start with a curated feed already! 👍
November 26, 2024 at 1:46 AM
How do we keep the #buildinpublic scene here from being overwhelmed by the same engagement bait posts as on X?

What's the best way to share and celebrate each others wins (like in the old days) but without every post becoming a screenshot of an MRR chart? 💀
November 25, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by James Ivings
✨ I built a thing for all you Bluesky people ✨

It's an analytics and posting tool for Bluesky.

It tracks your posts and their stats in a compact table, and watches engagements for a post's first 48 hours.

Scheduling and drafts are coming very soon!

And it's 100% free in beta 🥰

airview.so
Airview
Analytics for your Bluesky posts and profile. Save drafts and scheduled posts.
airview.so
November 21, 2024 at 12:55 PM
People often use our domain as a "fuck you" email address 🖕

So if they don't want to receive emails from a service they're signing up for they'll use our domain

For example most recently we got an email for goaway@leavemealone.com

Is there anything interesting we could do with these stats?
November 22, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Reposted by James Ivings
Intro post for @jivings.bsky.social

• Building LeaveMeAlone, a privacy-respecting unsubscription tool, with his partner Danielle
• Makes the StarterKit AI boilerplate
• Sailed across the Atlantic in a boat he and Danielle bought

www.highsignal.io/companies/sa...
Sailing the world while building startups
James and his partner Danielle have an enviable working set-up - they live and work on a sailing boat!
www.highsignal.io
November 21, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Just signed a year long lease on an apartment in Bangkok! 🇹🇭🥳

It will be our first time living anywhere longer than a month in the last 8 years! 🤯
November 18, 2024 at 5:40 AM
my friend is an undertaker 💀

He has to be quite careful how he says things so people don't come to the wrong conclusion 😂
November 4, 2024 at 12:33 AM
After 36 years I know strongly that I'm more of a hot-spring person than an ice-bath person 🤪
November 3, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Today I'm three-dozen years old! 🎁🎂

This has been the craziest most exhausting year of my life

⛵️ Sailed my own boat across an ocean
🌍 Sailed to 12 new countries
🌀 Ran away from a hurricane
🫡 Sold my boat and switched to backpack again
🎒 Visited another 7 countries by land

Next year I rest 😅
November 3, 2024 at 4:39 AM
First time flying into a typhoon yesterday 😅

It was bouncy
October 31, 2024 at 11:28 PM