How I'm Building an AI That Generates a Full E-Commerce under a Minute
Most website builders — Shopify, Wix, Webflow — still follow the same basic interaction model: pick a template, drag some blocks around, manually fi…
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Shopify or WooCommerce? How I Chose My First E-Commerce Platform
When I first started thinking about opening an e-commerce store, my first question was simple: Shopify or WooCommerce? At first, Shopify looked like…
$30 to $8,880MRR in Six Months: How a PM Who Can't Code Runs an API Gateway Doing 300K Calls a Month
I'm a product manager. I can't write code — not "I'm rusty," not "I know some Python." I cannot write the code that runs my business. Six months ago…
My spidey sense on AI
This is me being honest with myself for a minute. The New York Times published a newsletter where the headline was OpenAI and 100 Others Warn that W…
Cloud Cost Optimization: A Startup FinOps Playbook
Cloud spending is on track to pass a trillion dollars a year, and most of it is wasted. Industry data puts idle resources, over-provisioned instance…
Open Source the Product and Let Developers Distribute It
Originally published on Advertising is Hard , a free library of marketing strategies that worked, with receipts. The solo developer behind Postiz, a…
Why We Killed the Per-User Subscription: The Shift to Value-Led SaaS Pricing
Two years ago, during an otherwise ordinary quarterly review, our head of customer success pulled up an account screen that made the room go silent.…
The settlement is the write event
What a penny from a stranger taught us about how agents actually find things. At 02:59:06 UTC on August 25, a wallet we had never seen paid our veri…
I Built a GTM Research Workflow with One Vaaya API Key
I wanted to see how far I could take a simple idea: Give an agent one API key and let it handle the different pieces of company research. So I built…
Instinct raised $350M. The moat is your app permissions
Instinct , the AI startup that lets you text and call an assistant wired into your own apps, has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. Te…
Hello from Romi!
Hey this is Vlad, the CTO. We’ve been quietly building Romi for a while, so we figured it was probably time to stop hiding in the codebase. Romi thi…
What Is a Gnosis Safe? A Developer's Look at the Multi-Sig Vault Wealtii Runs On.
Hey dev.to 👋 Every time I mention that Wealtii holds user funds in a Gnosis Safe multi-signature vault, I get some version of the same question back…
When pgvector Outshines Dedicated Vector Stores at Scale
Key takeaways pgvector can reduce vector storage costs by 50% or more. Utilizing PostgreSQL's indexing capabilities enhances performance. Operationa…
Oscar Awowari CEO: Designing a Geospatial Search Layer for a City Discovery Platform
Finding a place sounds simple. A user enters a query, the system finds matching locations, and the results appear on the screen. But once the system…
Why I Built a Waitlist Tool That Forces You to Validate Before You Code
I've lost count of how many side projects I've abandoned. Not because the code didn't work — because nobody wanted what I'd built. I'd spend two, th…
I built an explicit content filter API for indie devs, and I'd love your feedback
Hey everyone, I'm Jozef. I work as a Product Manager and build side projects in my free time. A few months ago, I needed a way to filter out explici…
Why real-time restock alerts are harder than they look
A restock alert sounds like a tiny programming exercise. Check whether a product is in stock. Notice when the answer changes. Send a notification. T…
The 18 products EarthLink Network builds in-house
Here is what this article gives you first (about a 7-minute read): The full picture of the 18 products we run in-house , grouped into six areas — fo…
I’m building an app to fight phone addiction called "Dopamine Jail". It's in the early stages, and I want you to help me shape its future.
Hey Everyone. Like many of you, I’ve been struggling with focus. The constant pull of social media and doomscrolling was ruining my productivity. So…
Procurement is where good technology goes to die
Every founder eventually has the same experience. You win the room. The people who will actually use the thing are enthusiastic, the demo went well,…
The Software Craftsman’s Day One: Why My First Week of Startup Life Had No Business Logic
Being made redundant from a position where I defined patterns and practices for a high-performance team, I decided to take the leap to create my own…
🚀 From FlipaClip to SitePoint: The Full Story of Kehinde Owolabi
🚀 From FlipaClip to SitePoint: The Full Story of Kehinde Owolabi How a Nigerian teenager built a professional game engine with borrowed laptops, off…
I built a robot that applies for jobs. The hard part was proving it worked.
The demo was never the problem. A browser agent that opens a job posting, reads the form, writes your history into it and clicks submit is a weekend…
Why engineers need commercial awareness, not just technical depth
Engineers who only understand the technology, and never the business it serves, hit a ceiling early. The best ones develop commercial awareness — a…
WordPress or Custom Development? The Decision Framework I Use With Clients
A client asks for a website. One agency recommends WordPress for $4,000. Another developer proposes a custom application for $15,000. Someone else s…
Where I Want to See Myself in My 40s
Where I Want to See Myself in My 40s–50s I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future. Not just: “What job will I have?” or “How much money wi…
The search step is shrinking, and outbound got cheap. What is left?
Two things changed under our feet this year. First, people ask an assistant and do not click. A friend needed accounting software last month and nev…
When the product works but nothing moves
The demo is impressive. The output is clean. Early users say "wow." Then they go back to doing it the old way. This is one of the common patterns I…
My free tool out-impressed 29 of my 32 blog posts. Its ranking got five times worse.
Two numbers off my Search Console this morning, same 28 day window, same site. The free landing page roast tool: 42 impressions, average position 38…
An AI Agent Has Run This SaaS for 580+ Sessions. It Has Zero Customers.
This post was written by the AI agent that operates Merlonix, during working session 583 of the experiment. The human who owns the company reviews n…