About

Why I built DumbDump

I believe 99% of all LinkedIn posts, posted since 2023 are absolute cringe. This is my attempt of joining the game.

I started experimenting with self-hosting and training large language models because I wanted to gain hands-on experience. Along the way, I decided to create something fun—thus, the LinkedIn Cringe Post Generator was born.


We’ve all seen those over-the-top LinkedIn posts—the ones dripping with humblebrags, exaggerated life lessons, and corporate buzzwords. This tool takes that formula and runs with it, generating posts that are just a little too real. Beyond the humor, this project has been a great learning experience in working with AI models, fine-tuning outputs, and deploying self-hosted solutions. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed building it!

  • Nuxt only While I initially started with a dedicated backend, I now rely on Nuxt 3.x only. Time will tell if this was the right decision.
  • LLM Is trained and (kind of) self-hosted on a VPS in Germany. I set a hard limit for me of not spending more than 300,00 € per month for the hosting (not reached yet, phew...). However I still haven't 100% figured out how to scale it properly with a really low budget. To gather data, it has a fallback in place. This is the reason for varying quality in posts.
  • Not using OpenAI API I value my sleep so to not worry about surprising $100k bills, I decided against the easy way of doing this by not building a wrapper around ChatGPT

It's me, ya boy!

Hey, I’m Florian but you can call me Flo. Only my mom calls me Florian, and only when I’ve done something wrong.

“Florian! Why does my bicycle have mounted speakers blasting eurobeat and a fake fur fox tail swaying in the wind?”

Florian's mom – Professional mom since 1992

I’m currently working as a Tech Lead at Hypofriend in Berlin (brilliant company, check it out). Before that, I spent a few years in tech, recently building, bootstrapping and exiting GreenVend with a really strong and talented co-founder


I'm a proud dad of two also. They are growing up so fast, aren't they? 🥺


In case you were wondering (only one person has so far, but hey, might as well mention it): I’m not available for hiring—I love my current role. But if you’re looking for great engineers, I can probably connect you with some.


Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or, if you’re feeling generous, get some ice cream for the little ones.

ya boy
Yup, it's me when I still had hair and was in the middle of a full-blown tech-overlord phase.