The UX Challenge of AI: Training Users to Build a Secure Facial Vault
When you build an app, you know exactly how the backend works. But the moment real users hit the frontend, they will do the exact opposite of what you…
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Same Prompt, Four AI Tools, One Cricket Banner: ChatGPT Won the Image, Grok Won the Video, and Claude Built a Website Again
TL;DR — A few weeks ago I tested four AI tools on a build job: a website for my son's cricket academy. This time the job had nothing to do with code. …
Be Recommended by Inithouse: 4 Mistakes We Made Building an AI Visibility Checker — and the Fixes That Worked
At Inithouse — a studio running parallel product experiments — we built Be Recommended , a tool that checks how visible your brand is across ChatGPT, …
We were losing leads every night. Here is what we built to fix it.
For the first 6 months of building chatbot.witarist.com, we did something a lot of early-stage founders do: we left the website chat offline at night.…
I'm a Solo Founder Building an AI SEO Tool for E-commerce Sellers — Here's What the Stack Looks Like
I'm not a developer by background. I'm a solo founder building Vendozo — an AI-powered SaaS that generates SEO-optimized content for e-commerce seller…
LifeLine Loop — AI-Powered Food Rescue Platform
Problem We Solved Every year, millions of tons of perfectly edible food are wasted across India from restaurants, weddings, hostels, corporate cafeter…
Launching BonVoyage: From Travel Problem to Public Launch
Three months ago BonVoyage was just an idea. Actually, it was the inevitable result of a problem I wanted to solve. I’ve always loved travel, rewards …
I Got Fired After Giving Feedback About a System That Was Already in Production
The system was in production. It worked. And it was built without version control, using Perl scripts, ad-hoc PHP files, PostgreSQL stored procedures,…
I’m 17, and I’m teaching 6,000+ students to build apps without getting stuck in syntax hell
Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I'm Yashwardhan Sharma, a 17-year-old tech builder from Jamshedpur, India, and the founder of Idea To Action Technologies . I …
How I built a website vulnerability scanner for UAE PDPL compliance as a solo founder
I'm Akilesh Nairy, founder of Monarc (usemonarc.com) — a cybersecurity platform I've been building solo since February 2026. The problem I kept seeing…
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams Startups used to follow a familiar hiring pattern: raise money, build a c…
How to Run a Technical Debt Audit (Guide for Non-Engineer Founders)
Originally published at spectredev.xyz . Cross-posted here for the Dev.to community. Learn how to run a technical debt audit as a non-technical founde…
The fallback matrix I use when an AI MVP looks done too early
The most dangerous AI prototype is not the broken one. It is the one that looks finished five minutes too early. That is the moment when teams start d…
My pre-sprint decision memo for AI-generated MVPs
I used to move from "this prototype looks promising" to "let's break it into tasks" far too fast. Now, after NxCode generates a clickable MVP, I stop …
Every SaaS Founder Wants Their First 100 Customers
The hardest part of building a SaaS isn't creating the product—it's getting people to use it. Many founders spend months adding features, redesigning …
How I audit a SaaS homepage before changing the design
A SaaS homepage usually does not fail because its gradient is wrong. It fails because the page makes the visitor answer too many questions on their ow…
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…
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…
The uncomfortable part of building an AI product
One of the most uncomfortable moments as a founder is realizing that you may have spent weeks or months building something in a way that is not quite …
I Catalogued 93 AI Tools for Service Businesses. Two Categories Had Zero.
I Catalogued 93 AI Tools for Service Businesses. Two Categories Had Zero. Tags: AI, SaaS, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Small Business I built a cross-a…
Does Churn Prevention Ignore Your SaaS Payments? The Overlooked Leak That Bleeds MRR Monthly
This article was originally published at https://saastools.corenk.com/articles/does-churn-prevention-saas-payments You logged into Stripe to check mon…
I Tried to Build a SaaS First. Here Is What It Cost Me.
TL;DR Most developers jump straight to building a SaaS product before they have any distribution. The product fails not because it is bad, but because…
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…
The First 72 Hours as a CTO Decide Your First 90 Days. Most People Waste Them.
There's a moment every new CTO knows. It's your first Monday. You have admin access, a calendar full of introductions, and a head full of opinions abo…
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…