We audited 49 Show HN launches. 38 had a critical bug on day one.
Originally published on the Prufa blog . In June 2026 we pointed Prufa's free audit at 50 products that had just launched on Show HN — every launch fr…
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Startup Automation in 2026: The Opportunities, Risks, and Limits of AI-Driven Growth
Startups have always faced the same challenge: Too much work, too little time, and not enough people. In the past, solving that problem usually meant …
Why Your AI Engineer Hire Costs 56% More Than You Budgeted
The Budget You Approved Isn't the Budget You'll Pay You approved $180K for a senior AI engineer. Eighteen months later, you've spent $282K and you're …
Finding Product-Market Fit: A Data-Driven Framework for SaaS Founders
Product-market fit is not a binary milestone — it is a measurable state where your product solves a problem so well that users return organically and …
Anthropic Is Now the Most Valuable AI Startup. Here's the Developer's Read.
on may 28 anthropic announced a $65 billion series h round at a post-money valuation of about $965 billion, which makes it, on paper, the most valuabl…
Devlog #1: Building NYN — A Productivity Tool That Does Less
Hi everyone, This is my first post on Dev-Community and the start of a devlog for my first startup, NYN. A little bit about me: I’m not an experienced…
Launched a free DSGVO compliance scanner — scanned 200+ sites, 73% had violations
Originally written for r/SideProject on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community. TL;DR: Built a free tool that scans websites for GDPR/DSGVO co…
Playwright로 하는 QA 자동화: 일정 지연 방지하기
제품 일정이 밀릴 때 근본 원인은 대개 "코딩 속도"가 아니라 불확실성입니다. 모호한 완료 기준, 뒤늦은 버그 발견, 그리고 빌드가 "다 됐다"고 느껴진 뒤에야 시작되는 수동 QA가 그것입니다. 초기 단계 팀에게 이는 MVP 개발 일정에 숨은 비용을 부과하고, 아이디어…
What I learned building an AI chatbot for websites and docs
I’ve been building an AI chatbot for websites and docs for about 6 months For the last few months, on and off, I’ve been building a side project calle…
LLM Spend Audit: The 45-Minute Diagnostic for Startups
Disclosure: This article may later include affiliate links or service CTAs. Recommendations are based on workflow fit, not commissions. LLM Spend Audi…
2026 Enterprise AI Development Costs: What Companies Actually Pay (Based on Real Projects)
2026 Enterprise AI Development Costs: What Companies Actually Pay (Based on Real Projects) Every CTO evaluating AI investment eventually encounters th…
The AI Cost Crisis: How Startups Can Survive the Tokenpocalypse
"# The AI Cost Crisis: How Startups Can Survive the Tokenpocalypse\n\n## Introduction\n\nThe artificial intelligence boom has brought unprecedented in…
CI/CD for Early-Stage Startups: What to Set Up From Day One
The debate I see often at early-stage startups: is it worth setting up CI/CD infrastructure before you have significant traffic or a large team? The a…
How to Build an Acquisition Loop Roach Startup for Near Free
I strapped in my daily decaf, fired up the laptop, and figured I’d write this while the kettle was still making noises that sound suspiciously like a …
I was hired to manage the code, not write it. I left as their CTO.
The first thing I was hired to do wasn't development. "Just check whether our code is healthy." Read the code, point out what needed fixing, file the …
How We Ship a Growing Portfolio of AI Products at Inithouse
At Inithouse, we run a lab that ships a growing portfolio of AI products in parallel. Not one product at a time. Not a pivot-heavy path from idea to i…
Building a Calorie Tracker in Telegram: Why the Best Architecture Is No App Store
Everyone told me you need a native mobile app to build a health product. "Users expect polished iOS/Android experiences." "Nobody trusts a bot with he…
Indie Hacking the App Store: Navigating Apple's Guidelines for Niche Catholic AI Applications
Indie Hacking the App Store: Navigating Apple's Guidelines for Niche Catholic AI Applications The era of building generic software-as-a-service (SaaS)…
The Job Market Is Rough. Here's Why I Started Building Instead.
Let me be upfront about something. When I say "build a startup," I don't mean raise a seed round, quit your job, and move to San Francisco. I mean som…
I think I'm incapable of vibe coding
I recently started building a household compliance assistant for the South African market. When it comes to employing domestic workers in South Africa…
How to design pricing for AI APIs and LLM-powered products
AI API pricing comes down to six decisions, in order: what to meter, which primitive to charge for, what to charge per unit, how to structure tiers, h…
I built my first API product and now I’m trying to figure out if people actually need it
I recently built my first proper API product, and now I’m at the part that feels harder than writing the code: figuring out if people actually need it…
Hosted waitlist page vs embed on your site
A hosted waitlist page ( followtheduck.app/w/your-slug ) is not a compromise. It is the fastest way to learn if strangers care. An embed on your domai…
What Building an AI-Powered Mental Wellness Platform Taught Us About Human Behavior
When we started building Wellzy , we thought the biggest challenge would be the AI. We were wrong. The hardest part wasn't choosing models, designing …
Be Recommended by Inithouse: How to Set Up AI Brand Monitoring in 10 Minutes
At Inithouse, a studio shipping a growing portfolio of products in parallel, we noticed something odd: startups obsess over Google rankings but have n…
Prélakay
Prélakay: How I decided to build the digital infrastructure Haiti was missing Haiti receives over $5 billion in remittances every year. And yet — nobo…
Hey dev.to community! I’m Mountek, the System Designer at VecTrade.io.
Hey dev.to community! 💻 I’m Mountek , the System Designer at VecTrade.io . We recently launched VTrade , our professional paper trading simulator. Whe…
The Coordination Tax: Six Years Watching a One-Day Feature Take Four Months
There's a number you see quoted sometimes in management books, and most engineers dismiss it the first time they read it: in a team of eight, there ar…
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…
I Spent 8 Months Building a Framer Killer as a Solo Undergrad. Here's What Happened.
It creates a fully hosted personal portfolio from your resume PDF in under 2 minutes — no coding, no subscriptions, no drama. Eight months ago, as a S…