The zero-egress trick that lets me give away a media tool for free
I run a small free tool called imgi . You drop in two images, drag a slider to compare them, and get a permanent link to paste anywhere. Before and af…
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I Built a BPS Website: Build, Push, Sleep
What is a BPS website? BPS stands for Build , Push , Sleep . It's a simple framework I use for shipping side projects: Build it fast with AI assistanc…
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 …
Best alternatives to Heroku in 2026
Heroku pioneered the shape of what a small team expects from a hosting platform. Push code to Git, get a running app, add a Postgres or a Redis with o…
Dawn or Eclipse — a code-breaking ode to Turing you can't outsource to the machine
As I sat in my RV, sipping coffee and staring at lines of code, I couldn't help but think of Alan Turing. The father of computer science, Turing's wor…
Two free image tools I use that need zero install
I edit a lot of images for the web and I got sick of heavy desktop apps and sketchy upload sites. Two browser tools ended up in my daily rotation: Com…
Give a Dead Side Project an Exit Report, Not an AI Eulogy
The internet is having fun with AI eulogies for dead side projects. I like the joke. I trust a boring exit report more. A project is not finished when…
Paddle rejected my account. Here's the map of what actually works in 2026
Disclosure before anything else: I'm Oded, co-founder of UniPaaS, the FCA-authorised Payment Institution (No. 929994) behind paas.build, and we compet…
I built a tiny static site for Canadian referral codes
I built a small static site called Referral Quest. The problem was simple: Canadian referral codes are scattered across old Reddit comments, forum pos…
I audited my own AI-built SaaS expecting a disaster. The payment logic was fine — but two things almost drained my API bill and leaked my keys.
I'm not a security person. I built a small paid SaaS mostly by prompting AI — Cursor and Claude Code doing most of the typing, me steering. It's a too…
Your Product Hunt launch dies in 24 hours. Here's the post-launch SEO most founders ignore
I've watched dozens of indie devs pour two weeks into a Product Hunt launch, hit #3 of the day, get a 24-hour traffic spike... and then watch analytic…
Fud AI in one post: open source, BYOK, snap-a-photo logging
Wrapping the first build-in-public run for Fud AI . The short version: Native iOS + Android calorie + nutrition tracker Snap a photo -> estimated c…
What I learned about accidental low-value signals after four AdSense rejections
The conclusion first: the fourth AdSense rejection on my programmatic OSS directory wasn't about missing E-E-A-T infrastructure. I'd already built the…
What I learned about Astro 5 glob loader path resolution in a pnpm monorepo
Conclusion first : Astro 5's glob loader resolves relative base paths from process.cwd() at build time — not from the config file's location. When you…
Deploy your own crossposter to a VPS or Render and keep the scheduler alive
Local-first doesn't mean stuck on your laptop. Because Crossposter is just a Node/Next.js process with file-based state, you can self-host it anywhere…
The Sandwich Test: How I Check If A Dev-Tool Idea Is Actually Winnable Before I Build It
Four dev-tool ideas this week. Four dead, all from the same cause, and it took me embarrassingly long to see the pattern instead of just the individua…
How I verify affiliate CTAs are actually rendering in production
I run three directory sites that display affiliate links, AdSense slots, and Amazon blocks — but only when the corresponding environment variables are…
How I built a content quality gate that stops bad articles before they publish
I run three directory sites and a content pipeline that generates and cross-posts articles to Dev.to, Hashnode, and Bluesky automatically. The pipelin…
Netdata vs SigNoz vs OpenObserve: self-hosted observability for indie projects
I've been building out the ossfind.com OSS alternatives directory, and observability tools come up constantly as a category where the SaaS-to-OSS migr…
Notable releases I'm watching: Deno 2.8, Models.dev, DeepSeek V4 Pro permanent pricing
Five things from this week's HN and dev.to worth bookmarking if you're building with AI APIs and shipping static sites on a tight budget. DeepSeek mak…
A focus app should treat blocked attempts like product analytics
Most focus apps measure the easy thing. They count how long the timer ran. That is useful, but it misses the moment that actually matters: the moment …
Why I Stopped Writing Changelogs (And How I Automated Them Instead)
Every week, I ship. New feature here, bug fix there, a small quality-of-life improvement I've been meaning to knock out for months. GitHub gets the co…
Three GPU affiliate programs I wired into an AI tool directory
When I decided to drop AdSense and bet on affiliate monetization for my AI tools directory, Amazon was the obvious first integration — books and GPU h…
What I learned building pipeline-aware content variants in a static Astro directory
Conclusion first : you can encode meaningful editorial differentiation into static Astro pages at build time using a single metadata field — pipeline_…
Every platform vets freelancers. Nobody vets the client. I'm fixing that.
We've all been here: a client with a vague brief, a "simple" project that balloons, an invoice that goes unpaid for months. The freelance industry has…
How I kept 62 of 80 programmatic pages alive while hiding them from Google
After my second AdSense rejection for scaled content, I had two options for the thin pages on Open Alternative To : delete them and accept 404s on any…
Why I'm abandoning AdSense on two sites and betting on affiliate monetization
The first AdSense rejection was predictable. I'd launched three directory sites on Vercel and hadn't added custom domains immediately. Google won't ap…
Why I'm Building a Social Media Tool After 15 Years of Coding
Here's a stat that changed everything for me: a single reply on someone else's tweet is worth 13.5x more than a like in the algorithm . Not 13.5% more…
Five things shipping a product alone took from me
My notebook has a running page I never meant to start. It is a list of things shipping alone has taken from me. Not skills I had to learn, the list of…
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …