I scraped Chrome Web Store reviews to find abandoned extensions that still have 100k+ users
I've shipped 4 Chrome extensions and 2 VS Code extensions. The advice that always sounds smart — "find a popular extension the dev abandoned, rebuild …
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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_…
Astro 5 content collections as an editorial layer in a programmatic site
The 18 indexed pages on Open Alternative To are structurally identical — same template, same GitHub API data sources, same Claude Haiku-generated intr…
My SaaS Idea Scraper Surfaced 583 Demand Cards This Week — 3 Ideas Worth Building
I run DemandRadar, a scraper that hunts for SaaS ideas by analyzing demand signals across the web — Reddit, Product Hunt, payment discovery data, the …
What I learned adding E-E-A-T transparency pages to a programmatic directory
The Open Alternative To directory I launched in April has 80 programmatic pages — one per SaaS tool it covers. The first AdSense submission came back …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
First Year Self-Employed Taxes: What I Wish I'd Known Before Going Solo
First Year Self Employed Taxes 2026 I'm a solo dev running AniNext — an anime discovery app on iOS and Android. When I started taking the business ser…
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 …
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 …
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 …
A Realistic Faceless YouTube Shorts Workflow for Solo Founders
We have all seen the social media threads claiming you can build a faceless YouTube empire in three clicks using AI. The reality of building a content…
I shipped three fixes to my product in seven days. All three came from readers.
Last week I wrote about running my own idea-validation product (MonetScope) through its own validator. The verdict came back PIVOT, 68% confidence. Th…
How I Built 15 SEO Tool Sites Solo: My GEO Content Factory SOP
I started building English tool sites in early 2026. The goal was simple: build sites that get indexed by both Google AND AI Overviews, with minimum c…
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…
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 …
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 …
Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't.
Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't. Eight days into a public cold-start log for an open-source Apify Ac…
Day 7 — funnel audit found 7 of 9 articles had no buy link, then I pivoted the product
Day 6: I dropped the $9 hard wall to pay-what-you-want from $1 and opened the affiliate program at 30%. Day 7 promise: post the numbers. Here they are…
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 …
Your contact form is the only page that touches money
In March 2025 a startup founder filled out my contact form to ask about a six-month consulting engagement. I never got the email. He moved on. Four mo…
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 …
Per-Section Briefs: How to Stop AI Agents Losing the Plot at 2000 Words
In March 2025 I wired up my first long-form content agent. One prompt. A 2000 word target. A list of seven H2s pasted in at the top. The first 600 wor…
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 …
I built a dev review site in 2 weeks — here's the stack, the rejections, and what I'd do differently
A few months ago I tried to find a "best stack under 100 USD a month" article for a side project. Every result was either an enterprise list with line…
No more vague 'Signature FAIL': x509Lab now tells you exactly WHY your cert chain is broken 🔍
Hey everyone, RocketSquirrel here. I am building x509Lab , a browser-based GUI tool for visualizing and testing X.509 certificate chains. In the previ…
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 …
Lessons from 9 months of solo AI automation: 10 patterns I'd give my past self
canonical_url: https://ai-hack-lab.com/insights/arena-blueprint-launch-eve/ Context — I'm shipping Arena Blueprint on May 13, 2026 (JST). I'm a new HN…