How I'm Building a Multi-Agent Crew for AI Coding Supervision (Cipher Update)
After months of experimentation, I realized one generalist AI isn't enough. So I built Cipher — a crew of 7 specialized agents, each with their own pe…
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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…
Why Analytics Is Product Infrastructure
Analytics is often treated as a reporting feature: a dashboard added after the product already exists. That is usually too late. For software operator…
Most Software Is Workflow Design
One of the biggest mistakes I made early in my career was believing that software products were primarily collections of features. This application ha…
Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists
Building a Rental Aggregator When Daft.ie Already Exists When people find out I'm building a rental search platform for Dublin, the first question is …
Building search features for users in different timezones. The remote renter problem.
When I looked at who was actually signing up to HomeScout in the early months, the timezone distribution surprised me. A meaningful chunk of users wer…
State management for real-world workflows: tracking apartment viewings and applications
Apartment hunting is a stateful workflow. At any given moment, a user might have 15 listings in various stages: some saved, some inquired about, some …
Base64 encoding visualizer
Link to the tool: Base64 encoding visualizer Problem Statement - Understand the process of Base64 encoding step by step by visualizing the process eas…
AI Rewards the People Closest to the Problem
One of the interesting things happening right now is that some of the most effective people building software with AI are not necessarily engineers. T…
Your PM Retrospectives Are Lying to You
Every quarter, product teams hold retrospectives. Someone asks "what went well?" and "what didn't?" The team lists bullet points. Someone writes "we s…
I Revived a 9-Year-Old App with OpenAI Codex with a Product Engineer Mindset
Nine years ago, I built an app called Highlander. It was one of those projects you never forget, but over time it broke: old dependencies, outdated to…
The Rise of Team-Light Startups: Why Small AI-Native Teams May Win in 2026
Startups are changing again. A few years ago, the common startup advice was simple: raise money, hire fast, build a big team, and move quickly. But in…
I Built a Habit Tracker That Actually Made Me Want to Use It
Most productivity apps I've tried have one thing in common: they're exhausting to look at. Too many features. Too many tabs. Too many "just set up thi…
Turns AI development needs all the same things Human development does
For a while I've been "experimenting" with AI-assisted development; which meant opening a chat window, describing what I wanted, and hoping for the be…
AI Product Development Is Easier. Hiring Great Engineers Is Not
AI has made the first version of almost everything easier to ship. A founder can test a landing page faster. A product manager can mock a workflow bef…
What have you been working on lately?
Hi community! Would love to talk and get to know what you are working on right now Could be: a startup or a side project open-source tool article rand…
Why we hardcoded 8 niche presets instead of letting GPT generate slide layouts
Most AI slide tools let GPT decide everything — the layout, the typography hierarchy, the section structure. Each generation is a new design lottery. …
The Story of GoBadge: How It All Started
A journey from a simple idea to a badge service for modules It Started with a Simple Problem (and a Wearing Out F5 Key) "Why do I need a CLI tool just…
A Billion Token Lesson: Because You Can You Should
A Billion Token Lesson: Because You Can ≠ You Should Agent Autopsy, Day 6 Last week I spent a weekend building a product nobody asked for. I didn't ca…
Suggix Weekly: Stop Building Everything: Let Users Decide What Matters
One of the most common traps founders fall into—especially indie hackers and small SaaS teams—is believing that every piece of user feedback should be…
PRD Intelligence: Turn Your Product Ideas into Strategic Reports
What is PRD Intelligence? PRD Intelligence is a tool that helps product teams analyze their ideas quickly. Just paste your Product Requirements Docume…
How I Price My Indie Mac Apps — The Thinking Behind $7, $39, and $50
If this is useful, a ❤️ helps others find it. All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. I have apps priced at $7, $20, $29, $39, and $50. Each price…
What I Learned Building HiyokoBar — A Menubar App That Does One Thing Per Click
If this is useful, a ❤️ helps others find it. All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. HiyokoBar is a menubar app. Click the icon — panel appears. …
Selling Mac Apps on Gumroad — What Works, What Doesn't, Honest Numbers
If this is useful, a ❤️ helps others find it. All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. I sell Mac apps on Gumroad. Not the App Store — Gumroad, dir…
Why we built provenance into a notes app
Notes written in the field are good at recording results and reflections, but keeping the flow that led to those results as structure is surprisingly …