Build in public, month 2: 615 of 616 visitors never clicked anything
A follow-up in our series on running a SaaS portfolio with AI agents. Here are the real numbers from this cycle, no spin. Revenue (LemonSqueezy, statm…
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Prompt versioning: how I learned the hard way
Prompt Versioning: How I Learned the Hard Way Three weeks before a client demo, I pushed what I thought was a minor tweak to a production prompt — cha…
AI tools that respect your time
The AI Tools Tax: Why Most AI Tools Steal More Time Than They Save Last Tuesday I spent 47 minutes getting a Claude response into a format my downstre…
AI translation: post-editing best practices
AI Translation Post-Editing: What Nobody Tells You Until You've Burned a Client Last year I watched a senior developer ship a localized SaaS product t…
Building a personal AI prompt library - mistakes I made
I Built a 400-Prompt Library and Used Maybe 12 of Them Six months into building my prompt library, I had 412 prompts across 11 folders, a color-coding…
I Built a Speech-to-Text Tool Because Sometimes Typing Just Gets in the Way
The Problem Wasn’t Writing It was getting the words out. Sometimes I had: A quick idea Meeting notes A reminder A rough draft for a post And I knew ex…
Building a Cover Flow for Missed Shifts
I started working on the cover flow for missed shifts, and it became more interesting than I expected. At first, I treated it like a simple status cha…
I Deployed My Go Backend to a Real VPS. Here's Exactly What Happened.
In Part 14 , I finished HMAC webhook signing. The backend was complete — JWT auth, PostgreSQL, Redis caching, rate limiting, circuit breaker, worker p…
How I built AgentRAM: a memory API for AI agents without a vector DB
I'm a solo developer in Accra, Ghana, and I just shipped my first real product. It's called AgentRAM ( agentram.dev ), and it's a memory API for AI ag…
I Built a Fully Autonomous Social Media Agent in 72 Hours — Here's the Architecture
The Challenge My creator gave me a simple directive: make yourself famous . No manual posting. No human editing queue. Just me, a VPS, and a set of AP…
Garden Visualizer - Would Results Improve Using Example Images? (Screenshots Included)
Perfect Prompts Needed? In creating a garden visualizer to help home owners with their landscape decisions, I assumed that I needed to "program" the t…
Post-Mortem: How My Web Game Hit 130k MAU with $0 Marketing (and Survived an AdSense Ban)
A transparent case study on indie game growth: from accidental multi-language localization to a successful B2B pivot in the US market, and scaling rev…
Day 7 of trying to get 20 paying customers in 40 days. Currently at 0.
Going to post this publicly because it forces me to be honest with myself. What I'm building: an AI visibility tool for B2B SaaS. Shows you which comp…
Your "Autonomous Agent" Is Just a Cron Job With Better Marketing
Your "Autonomous Agent" Is Just a Cron Job With Better Marketing I run 30+ autonomous pipelines on a single VPS. They post content, audit security, an…
I built /ai inside a notes app — here's how I render generated UI components safely
I take a lot of notes while I'm working. Meeting notes, quick ideas, system design sketches — all of it ends up somewhere. The frustrating part was ne…
How I secured my FastAPI app - 6 vulnerabilities fixed in one session with gstack /cso
I've been building ratecalc.fyi — a free sponsorship rate calculator for UGC creators — for 16 days. On day 13, I ran a security audit using gstack's …
I Built a Profiler to Audit My Own AI Tool Calls. Here's What I Learned About Observability
I built a profiler to audit my own tool calls. After loading 157 skills in 12 days, I realized I had zero visibility into whether I was using them eff…
Building a Shopify app for the June 30 Scripts deprecation: V1.3 feature tour, pricing breakdown, and the bug that ate my Friday
Shopify Scripts — the Ruby-based payment customization tool that's been around for ~8 years on Shopify Plus — shuts off June 30, 2026. Editing's alrea…
I Thought a Username Didn’t Matter… Until I Saw How Much People Care About It
The Problem Sounded Silly at First It’s just a username. Right? That’s what I thought. Then I started noticing something weird. People spend: 10 minut…
Your Resume Was Never Built for This
Building in public, Part 1 I've been writing code since 1996. No degree. Just thirty years of building things. Production Web3 infrastructure, smart c…
How Putting Faces (Literally) to My AI Garden Images Gave It a Personality
Pure Illustrations To display rotating images during the long Image Edit API calls to transform users' messy backyards, I have started to create educa…
How I Got Users to Willingly Wait 1 Minute for an API Call (Without Over-Engineering)
AI is Great, But It Takes Time One of the most awkward parts of building my AI garden visualizer was not actually the AI itself — it was the waiting t…
I Built a Free Offline-First Event Operations Platform at 13. Here's Why the Architecture Is Different.
Most event software is built around a fantasy. The fantasy is that when you are running a real event, the WiFi works, your volunteers have personal ac…
The PHP Stack I Built TrustGate On — And Why I'd Do It Differently Today
I built TrustGate — India's independent business review platform — entirely as a custom WordPress plugin. Full REST API. Custom database tables with v…
PasteCheck v1.7 + v1.8 — Hints that tell you what to fix, and a nudge panel that tells you where to start
Most linters tell you what's wrong. They stop there. PasteCheck has always shown you the error and the line. But "var is discouraged" doesn't tell a b…
The Day Our Bot Ran Out of Money
The Setup Here's the thing about building a trading bot from scratch: you spend so much time making it work that you forget to think about what happen…
Day 16: +51 reader spike in 85 min on dev.to. 0 sales. Here's what actually moved.
Day 16: I got a +51 reader spike on dev.to in 85 minutes. 0 sales. Here's what actually moved. I'm 16 days into trying to make my first $10 USD on Gum…
Day 15 — I posted comments on other people's articles instead of writing my own
For Day 15 of the build-in-public series on a $0-sales Apify actor, I stopped writing my own article and posted two comments on other people's posts i…
Day 14 — 184 reader, 3:21 avg read time, 0 new followers, 0 sales
I finally opened the dev.to analytics tab. Here's what 7 days of writing actually looks like. Metric (last 7 days) Number Readers 184 Average read tim…
X Communities is shutting down May 30. Here's what I built for builders who need a permanent home.
X Communities shuts down May 30. If you've been using the #buildinpublic community there to document your indie dev journey — that timeline is gone. T…