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Wes Oudshoorn
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Founder of AppSignal. Exited in 2025. No indiehacking and riding AI wave to wherever it brings us.
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Translated the public AI intake chat so English vendors no longer show Dutch field labels 
#donequote
Every input in my AI intake now sits at the bottom of the chat instead of floating mid conversation. Customers were seeing two send buttons and guessing which one was theirs. #donequote
Fixed screenshots in my cloud dev sandboxes rendering text like it was broken. Headless Chrome on Linux ships with no font hinting, so I spent an hour chasing a font bug that did not exist. #donequote
- US quotes were being drafted in Dutch. Language is now required, so it can't default silently
- Prompts told the AI to apply Dutch VAT on US quotes
- Pressure washers saw "Facade cleaning". Real US trade list now
- Dutch-only address lookup. US vendors type it instead
- Square metres to square feet
- 387 hardcoded Dutch strings. Scanner now runs in CI #donequote
Replaced the translated Dutch trade list with a real US one so pressure washers see themselves at signup #donequote
Background AI drafts no longer time out at 45s, and picking who sends a quote stopped erroring #donequote