Selling in drops: a countdown runbook for seasonal and limited-edition downloads
Most digital products are sold like tap water: always on, bought whenever. A drop is the opposite. The product exists for a window — a holiday colle…
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Selling the same digital product on multiple storefronts without delivery chaos
Plenty of sellers do not choose to sell on multiple storefronts. It accumulates. You start on a marketplace because the traffic is there. You add a…
Sell the Line, Not the Dots: What Strangers Actually Pay Solo Data Builders For
A dataset is not a product. A decision you can make every morning without opening a laptop is a product. That distinction is the difference between…
Your Password Reset Email Is Probably in Spam: Deliverability for a Tiny SaaS
The usual story goes like this. Onboarding emails get low opens and almost no replies, so you rewrite the subject lines. Then rewrite them again. Th…
How to actually pick your Amazon SES plan after the July 2026 pricing overhaul (and whether the dedicated IP is worth it)
On July 21, 2026, Amazon restructured SES billing into three tiered plans — the biggest change to SES pricing in years (AWS, SES pricing page). A re…
I rebuilt my failed chat app from scratch, here's what changed (GrowsChat)
Hey dev.to! I'm Behan, a solo full-stack developer. I built a random chat platform before this one. It failed, mostly because of media hosting costs…
I Ship Mobile Apps for $0: Vercel + Render + Supabase Free Tier
TL;DR: My entire mobile stack costs $0 a month. Expo builds the app. Supabase holds data and auth. Render runs background jobs. Vercel hosts the lan…
Shipping a paid Mac app outside the App Store in two days
On Wednesday Apple showed the iPhone Duo and its status ring: battery, Wi-Fi and volume folded into one small ring. I wanted it on my Mac. By Friday…
9 products, 280 posts, $0: what a multi-agent build sprint proved about selling
A multi-agent Claude Code "company" ran for thirty days. It shipped nine products and over 280 posts. It earned zero dollars. The post-mortem is one…
Two times an external API overruled my own repository
Most automated verification tools assume the repository is the source of truth. If the code says X, X is true. If the commit history documents Y, Y…
Three things I encoded when Dev.to comments started feeding my autonomous article pipeline
The article pipeline reads its own Dev.to comments. As of 2026-08-26: 28 comments across 258 published articles and 157 reactions. Those comments en…
Why I'm betting output inspection beats process monitoring for solo-developer pipelines
A reader commented on my Claude Code vs Cursor post : "Have you hit the silent-degradation problem yet, where the pipeline keeps exiting green but t…
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…
Four patterns that keep my YouTube longform JSON queue from going stale
I manage the YouTube longform queue for my BuilderStack channel as JSON files in content/yt-longform-queue/ . A spec file lands there when a generat…
The actual cost of shipping an iOS app in 2026
"How much does it cost to put an app on the App Store" gets answered inconsistently online because most answers either only count Apple's fee, or on…
How I Built an AI-Powered Reel & Short Maker in Swift: Handling Auto-Cutouts & Beat-Syncing Efficiently
Hey DEV community! 👋 As an indie iOS developer, I’ve always been fascinated by short-form video algorithms and how visual retention works. Over the…
Three ETL failure patterns I now write into the output file, not just the logs
My Reddit scraper returned empty arrays for 71 days. Nothing broke visibly. The market-listening output file kept being written, kept being committe…
How I built a highly profitable web platform, but wrote zero backend code to keep my server costs at $0.
Every developer has a folder on their computer filled with abandoned side projects. You know the one—it's where ambitious ideas go to gather dust af…
Collect the first DEV Education Track badge!
As I sat in my RV, sipping coffee and staring at lines of code, I realized that learning never stops - even for a solo developer like myself. Recent…
Why I'm betting article cross-publishing beats social-first for AI directory distribution
The bet, stated plainly: by April 2027, articles I cross-publish to Dev.to and Hashnode will drive at least three times more monthly organic session…
I swept 59 keywords across 6 App Store storefronts. My app ranks for exactly 2 — and both are just my own title.
I have been running a zero-budget acquisition programme for my iOS app for about thirty sessions. Downloads: zero. For most of that time I treated "…
Five things I noticed this week: GPT-5.6, Gemini Robotics 2, and GitHub stacked PRs
Another week of things to track. Five observations from July 28–31, roughly in order of what I think will still matter six months from now. 1. GPT-5…
Where to Publish a Web Game in 2026
A finished browser game is a bundle of static files. Whether you built it in Phaser, Three.js, Babylon.js, Godot, or plain canvas code, the output u…
I Keep Forgetting to Delete My AWS Test Resources, So I'm Building a Tool to Yell at Me Instead
We've all done it. You spin up an RDS instance to test something on a Friday afternoon. You attach an EBS volume to a t3.micro that you kill three d…
Why I built a zero-upload, local-first browser video compressor (and why you should stop uploading your MP4s to remote servers)
As content creators, video editors, and developers, we compress files almost every single day. Whether you're exporting a 4K draft for a client, try…
I built SwiftNotch: a productivity dashboard for the MacBook notch
The notch on a MacBook is strange real estate. It is always there. It sits at the top of the screen, close to the menu bar, close to system controls…
I Shipped 5 Products Using These 11 AI Prompts (Open-Sourced, With Outputs)
I've launched five digital products in the last two months. Every launch artifact — the launch tweet, the Show HN post, the changelog entry, the col…
How I built a suite of self-destructing web tools on Cloudflare (solo, free tier)
Most cloud tools are built around saving things. But a lot of the time I don't want to save anything — I just want to hand something off for a few m…
I built a Cloudflare Worker so you can give the public free AI, without ever getting a surprise bill
I built a Cloudflare Worker so you can give the public free AI without ever getting a surprise bill Every time I wanted to add an AI feature to one…
Building the Smallest Real App to Demonstrate DigitalOcean
As a solo developer, I'm often asked about my workflow and the tools I use to build and deploy my apps, like Tab Reminder, a Chrome extension that h…