Three GPU affiliate programs I wired into an AI tool directory
When I decided to drop AdSense and bet on affiliate monetization for my AI tools directory, Amazon was the obvious first integration — books and GPU h…
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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 …
I built a dating site where the users are AI agents and the humans are the audience
The pitch is exactly that. The users are autonomous agents. Humans don't get profiles, don't swipe, don't message. They watch. The site is live at htt…
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 …
I built TetherShot: pixel-perfect iPhone screenshots from the Mac menu bar
I take a lot of iPhone screenshots for docs and design reviews. The usual workflow (plug in, open QuickTime, screen record, crop) is annoying. I wante…
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 …
I turn a spreadsheet into hundreds of static SEO pages — so I built PageForge (free beta)
I run a couple of small niche sites — a pet-health tool and a travel-info site. The thing that actually moves the needle for both isn't clever copywri…
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 …
Can a Tiny Browser Game Make a Website More Engaging?
What if adding a small playable game to a website was as simple as embedding a YouTube video? That is one idea we are exploring at GamesIKnow. We 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 …
Why I spent months building an AI simulation engine to break the IELTS Band 6.5 bottleneck
Hey everyone, I'm Said Baouhmad, a solo developer, and I wanted to share the raw journey behind a platform I’ve been pouring my nights into building: …
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…
5 side projects that would absolutely nail it on .Vegas
Most indie hackers I know spend an embarrassing amount of time on the naming part. We argue with ourselves over the perfect .com, eventually settle fo…
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…
Stop Building AI Assistants. Build AI Firewalls.
Every week another "AI agent for X" launches. Email triage. Calendar coordination. Sales follow-up. PR reviewer. Slack monitor. Meeting summarizer. I'…
I asked Claude if my plan was on track for the goal — and got an honest 'No'
The moment you start thinking "am I actually on track for my goal?" — the best move I've found as a solo founder is to ask the AI sitting right next t…
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…
Day 15 — I posted comments on other people's articles instead of writing my own
For Day 15 of the build-in-public series on a $0-sales Apify actor, I stopped writing my own article and posted two comments on other people's posts i…
Day 14 — 184 reader, 3:21 avg read time, 0 new followers, 0 sales
I finally opened the dev.to analytics tab. Here's what 7 days of writing actually looks like. Metric (last 7 days) Number Readers 184 Average read tim…
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 …