How to Choose a Product Launch Platform: An Indie Maker's Checklist
How to Choose a Product Launch Platform: An Indie Maker's Checklist When you finish building something, the next question arrives fast. Where do you…
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How to get your first users when nobody follows you (our day one numbers)
Written on October 14, 2026, at the end of our first day. Originally posted at get100users.app . Our X account posted for the first time at 2:10 AM…
Selling downloads from a short video: turning TikTok and Reels viewers into delivered files
A short video is the harshest sales channel a download seller will ever use. There is no search intent, no browsing, and no second chance at a first…
Why I built two Bangla typing courses instead of one
When I started LearnType from Dhaka, I thought Bangla typing was one problem. It turned out to be two. Most people here type Bangla in one of two wa…
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…
A 20-Minute Weekly Metrics Review When You Have Under 100 Users
Last Tuesday I spent almost two hours in Mixpanel. I opened 14 charts. Signups by source. Session length. A funnel with three people in it. A retent…
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 built an iOS alarm that makes you scan a QR code across the room to turn it off
The problem I'm a heavy sleeper. Not "hit snooze once" heavy. I would turn off three stacked alarms in my sleep and wake up an hour late with zero m…
Moving image work into the browser took that bill to zero
For about two months last year I had a habit: check the API usage graph before anything else in the morning. Not because traffic was flattering — be…
Why I made my project-management SaaS 100% free (and how I plan to survive)
In my last post, I wrote up what it cost to build VanillaPM — a full PMBOK project-management platform — solo in three months. The reaction was kind…
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…
I Shut Down My Startup After 100 Waitlist Signups. Here's What I Learned
I am shutting down Ravah, a startup I spent months designing, building, and trying to grow. About 100 people joined the waitlist. Founders understoo…
Would You Choose a Giant Product… or a Fast-Moving Indie One?
This isn't a promotion. I'm genuinely curious how developers think. Imagine you have two platforms. Platform A Used by millions. Been around for yea…
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…
Building a Community Around Small but Mighty Tools
As a solo developer, I've learned that building a community around your work is just as important as the work itself. I've been fortunate enough to…
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…
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 killed my SaaS subscription 7 days after launch. Here's the math.
Last week I launched UIPrompt, a visual component editor that writes exact prompts for AI coding tools. Product Hunt went fine. People said nice thi…
I built 8 security layers for an MCP marketplace. Here's what each one actually catches.
After a real trojan slipped through my MCP marketplace last week ( Trojan:Win64/Lazy.PGPK!MTB hidden in a nested zip), I went deep on defense-in-dep…
Give a Dead Side Project an Exit Report, Not an AI Eulogy
The internet is having fun with AI eulogies for dead side projects. I like the joke. I trust a boring exit report more. A project is not finished wh…
How I built a content quality gate that stops bad articles before they publish
I run three directory sites and a content pipeline that generates and cross-posts articles to Dev.to, Hashnode, and Bluesky automatically. The pipel…
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…
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 — pipelin…
Why I'm Building a Social Media Tool After 15 Years of Coding
Here's a stat that changed everything for me: a single reply on someone else's tweet is worth 13.5x more than a like in the algorithm . Not 13.5% mo…
We Shipped 36 Features in 30 Days — Here's What We Built (and Learned)
On May 18 we launched Vigilmon — an uptime and website monitoring service for developers and indie makers who want to know when their sites go down…
I Launched My First App on the Amazon Appstore: Halo
Today, I published my first Android app on the Amazon Appstore. The app is called Halo, a task manager built around a simple idea: Productivity apps…
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…
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 — pipelin…