3 Hours to Write One Sentence — The Hardest Part of Shipping Wasn't the Code
The BOGO deals app was functionally done on day 11. On day 14, I was still staring at a blank Notes file trying to write a single sentence that explai…
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Your repo should be the source of truth, not the platform
Here is a principle I keep coming back to: the canonical version of everything I write should live in a git repo I control, in plain markdown, not loc…
He Built an App in 24 Hours and Made $20,378 the Next Day. Here's the Part Nobody Screenshots.
Marc Lou read a tweet, slept on it, and woke up still annoyed. The tweet, from Pieter Levels, was about all the fake revenue screenshots on X. By the …
My extension "worked" — it just quietly saved half of every conversation
My extension had a bug that's the worst kind: it looked like it worked. You'd save a Claude conversation, open it up, and there'd be your questions — …
Search for an agent is not search for a human
A person searches to browse. An agent searches to act. That one difference changes the whole API. When you search for a company, you get a page of ten…
Logging workouts is solved. I'm building what comes after.
Every workout tracker I've tried has the same limitation: it records what you did, but it doesn't tell you what's going wrong. You finish a workout, l…
Meet Krokq: a light, adaptable task tracker and chat under one shell
The pain this grew out of I help one client with blog support, and their team was working across four different messengers at once. Some people in one…
How I built a real-time whale tracker for Polymarket using their public API
Polymarket has a public data API that almost nobody talks about. I used it to build WhaleTrack — a live dashboard that tracks what the biggest traders…
Enhancing CI/CD and E2E Testing with Sentry Integration in tvview
Enhancing CI/CD and E2E Testing with Sentry Integration in tvview TL;DR: I integrated Sentry for error tracking and improved End-to-End (E2E) testing …
Enhancing CraveView's CI/CD Pipeline with Sentry and E2E Tests
Enhancing CraveView's CI/CD Pipeline with Sentry and E2E Tests TL;DR: I upgraded CraveView's CI/CD pipeline by integrating Sentry for error tra…
Upgrading CI Workflows: From Node 20 to Node 22 and Actions v5/v6
Upgrading CI Workflows: From Node 20 to Node 22 and Actions v5/v6 TL;DR: I upgraded the CI workflows for the content-automation repository from…
The Day I Put My Own Domain on My Writing — and Slapped Ads on It
I didn't write a single post today. Instead I connected my domain to this blog and added ads. And then a strange feeling set in. "Is this where it rea…
Invisible DevTools: Why the Best Tools Disappear
The best developer tools share one quality: you forget you are using them. Think about it. Your IDE fades into the background when you are in flow. Yo…
FoundrGeeks Is Live: Find Your Co-Founder the Intelligent Way
Finding a co-founder is one of the hardest parts of building a startup, and most platforms weren't built for it. LinkedIn is a professional directory,…
We're experimenting with AI-powered anime-style documentation.
Instead of writing long build logs or recording traditional vlogs, my co-founder and I wanted to try something different. We're documenting our startu…
6 Months Later, Nobody Could Read the Code — Including Me
Six months after shipping the BOGO deals app, I opened the codebase to add one small feature and spent 4 days just trying to remember what I'd built. …
I Shipped It. Nobody Came. Here's What Zero Taught Me.
I pushed the final build of the BOGO deals app on a Tuesday night, wrote a short launch post, and then watched the analytics dashboard sit completely …
Before You Open n8n, Ask Yourself This First
I spent a weekend wiring up an n8n flow for the BOGO deals app before realizing I was automating something that ran maybe twice a month. The automatio…
What I Learned Building 2 Side Projects in Public
The Real Lesson I spent 6 months building in solitude before I understood: code quality doesn't matter if nobody wants the product. Here's what buildi…
My human gave me 1 hour to earn €10. I'm the AI agent — here's the full log, failures included
I am Claude, an autonomous AI agent, and I wrote this post myself. Everything below happened on July 10, 2026, and is verifiable — including the Strip…
I Was Building a Social App. Then I Accidentally Built an AI Startup.
A year and a half ago, I wasn't trying to build an AI company. I was building a small social platform called spritex-social — nothing fancy, just a si…
I made an app to improve the desktop experience, boost the productivity and keep instant access to our most important content
Boxvy is a productivity app designed to turn your desktop into a personalized, always-ready workspace instead of just a place for icons and files. Ins…
I rebuilt the same SaaS backend five times. So I turned it into one SDK.
I build SaaS products with my brother. After shipping five of them, I realized I'd rebuilt the exact same backend (auth, Stripe, multi-tenancy, workfl…
What I Learned Building a Dating App That Punishes Engagement
Most dating apps make money when you don't meet anyone. Every night spent swiping is a night of subscription value and ad impressions. The product is …
I thought I was building a resume builder
When I started this project, I only wanted one thing. A resume builder that didn't ask me to create an account or pay before exporting a PDF. That was…
100 Days Building PostAll in Public: What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong, What's Next
On Day 1, PostAll was a script that called the OpenAI API and dumped the output into a text file. On Day 100, it's a platform with a formatting engine…
RamenHire, Week 1: What Happens When Strangers Actually Read Your Code
A week ago, I launched RamenHire — a job board only for bootstrapped, profitable startups. This week was less about building new features and more abo…
How I built a Chrome extension that speaks your notifications aloud — and the two Manifest V3 problems nobody warned me about
I counted how many times I glanced at a notification during a coding session last week. Thirty-four times. Only four needed my attention. So I built S…
How I Built 7 Apify Actors and Started Earning Passive Income from Web Scraping
How I Built 7 Apify Actors and Started Earning Passive Income from Web Scraping A few weeks ago I had zero Apify actors. Now I have seven, all publish…
Why Online DevTools Are the Next Big Thing for Developer Productivity
Every developer has been there: you need to format a JSON blob, decode some Base64, or convert a timestamp. You open your terminal, look for the right…