Rick Ovelar

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Building GarageExit

Joined March 2026
Asuncion, Paraguay
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22+ years as an ad creative. Now just a creative who likes spaghetti, if you know what i mean 🤖🤓 Building @garageexitapp ➡️🆓

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I wanted to add a more personal touch to the About page of GarageExit and talk about who's behind the project, a.k.a me, but also have some fun in the process, so I've created this keychain figurine. That helmet looks ready to hit anything on the road 😅

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The domain and social media handle availability check works quite well so i've decided to offer that as a free service. I'm planning on doing that more often, re-using some implemented logic from the main app to offer more free goodies.

You'll find it at https://garageexit.com/name-check

Let me know if its useful for you, or if you would like something added to it.

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On December of last year I started building another idea, but then by mid December I decided to change gears and started building GarageExit which is an idea i'm really connected to. Still a few miles ahead but getting closer.

Clearly the one-shot promises didn't work for me 😂

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Finally getting the naming generator in a good enough shape to continue implementing other modules of the Verbal Kit. Saying it's not being easy it's an understatement, not so much because of the actual logic behind it, but working with LLM outputs is not a straight line, not even close. Two small phrases added to a prompt can make all the difference in the world and also being a more "creative and subjective" kind of output, well, it takes time just to test variations. I'm still not 100% satisf

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I'm rethinking and streamlining the whole name generation module and at the same time trying out Qwen3.6 Plus, and have to say it's doing great, really fast and it's multi agent capability is neat. And it's free right now in Opencode, so really worth a try if you are building something at the moment 👌🏻

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This past week i've been working on improving a lot of backend stuff for GarageExit, simplifying steps, cleaning up code structure, and also improving auth flows, email flows, all the important but not so fun part, at least not for me. But I also made some time to update some visual details and I could spent HOURS on these tiny stupid details 🙈 That's why I have a self imposed rule of not playing with the visual part unless I have at least 5x times more actual app functionality done before twea

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