Founder Patterns That Kill a Launch – And What AI Has To Do With It
I learned the hard way that partnering with people with no technical background, who want to build startups, isn't always what you'd expect. They usua…
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ReserveFlow — devto
{ "title" : "Building ReserveFlow: AI-Powered Booking Infrastructure for Africa's Mobile-First Reality" , "content" : "# Building ReserveFlow: AI-Powe…
I Built an AI Brand Name Generator — Here's What I Learned
I Built an AI Brand Name Generator in 48 Hours — And Got My First Paying Customer One months ago, I had an idea for a brand name. I spent three hours …
How I built a demo-first sales tool for freelance web designers
Most freelance web designers do not lose because they cannot build good websites. They lose because getting in front of the right local business owner…
My surprise AI bill is why I built TokenBar
A few months ago I had one of those dumb founder moments where you stare at a bill and think: wait, how did it get that high? Nothing was obviously br…
Sentie. The Automated AI Consultant
Most "AI agent" products are chatbots with a fancy wrapper. They answer questions. They summarize documents. They draft emails you'll rewrite anyway. …
I built an AI English speaking coach — what was technically hard
I spent the past year building Elispeak , an AI English speaking coach. The user-facing pitch is simple — talk to an AI tutor, get instant pronunciati…
One-Person AI Companies Are the New Arbitrage
The Infrastructure Shift That Changes Everything Two years ago, building a production AI system required venture capital. You needed GPUs, orchestrati…
AI Portfolio Generator for Developers: Stop Overthinking It and Ship the Thing in 2026
You have built production apps. You have debugged systems at 2am. You have shipped features that thousands of people use. And yet your portfolio is ei…
We Talked About This for Two Years. Now You Can Talk to It
The Kid in the Candy Store Problem It was a notification. Just one. Someone, somewhere, used Stacky. Not me testing it. Not my co-founder poking at th…
I Built a Tool That Turns Google Maps Listings Into Websites Using AI
Most small businesses don't have a website. Not because they don't want one — but because building one takes time, money, and technical knowledge they…
How to Create a Customer Persona for Your Startup (2026)
How to Create a Customer Persona for Your Startup (2026) Most first-time founders build their product for everyone. Then they wonder why nobody buys. …
The feature we recoded 16 times before making it a product
The activity log: the feature we've been recoding in every SaaS since 2020 Between 2020 and early 2026, we shipped 16 projects. SaaS and mobile apps c…
Built "Socionn", Now Live with Real Users (Going Open Source Soon)
Hey everyone 👋 I’ve been working on Socionn , and I’m excited to share that it’s now live and already being used by real users . 💡 What is Socionn? So…
I Quit Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA) Three Times. Here's What I Build on the Fourth Try.
In 2023 I bought DDIA on Kindle. Opened the replication chapter. Quit after 40 pages and didn't open it for six months. In 2024 I bought it again, bec…
Here are the strategies I used to get my first 1000 users on my app as an indie app developer
If you’re building an app and wondering how to actually get users, you quickly realize something uncomfortable: Building now is the easy part. Distrib…
Dark Tetrad Traits in Founder Screening: How to Spot Narcissistic Leadership Before It Destroys Your Company
Dark Tetrad Traits in Founder Screening You're in the board meeting. The founder just dismissed a critical concern with a smirk. Said the investor ask…
Are Customer Feedback Platforms Worth It for Small Teams?
In the early stages of building a product, especially in a small team, every decision feels critical. You’re juggling development, support, marketing,…
We've open-sourced our AI security scanner: it found 221 issues
Recently, mentions of Mythos from Anthropic leaked online - a model that found vulnerabilities even in OpenBSD. We thought this was a great moment to …
A Team Member Asked for a Short Break. Then a Much Longer One. Here’s What We Did.
The short break was supposed to fix it. He came to us saying he was dealing with health issues (screen fatigue), the kind that builds up quietly when …
We Almost Didn’t Launch — Until We Cut the Product in Half
🚀 We almost didn’t launch. Not because the product was impossible.Not because the team wasn’t capable. Because the scope kept growing… while our capac…
Building an AI Tutor for 40 Million Ethiopian Students Who Learn in Amharic
When I tell people that 40 million Ethiopian students don't have access to quality tutoring, they're shocked. When I explain that most of them learn i…
I Built an AI-Powered Learning OS Because I Was Tired of Forgetting Everything I Read
Most people read non-fiction the same way: skim chapters, highlight some quotes, feel productive for a day, and forget 90% within a week. I've been th…
Why Building AI for Non-English Speakers is Harder Than You Think (And How I Did It Anyway)
Over 70% of the world doesn't speak English fluently, yet most AI applications are built with English as the default. When I started building Ivy, an …
Too many AI interviews became architecture work, so I built this
"Cool. I just did discovery, systems design, and tool selection for free." We'd spent most of the conversation talking through workflow bottlenecks, w…
Every AI Startup Should Watch Out: 1000+ Ghost Accounts Drained Our Platform in 15 Days
We're building Nexu 🦞, an open-source OpenClaw desktop client on GitHub. When new users sign up, they get free credits to try various LLMs on the plat…
Hiring Engineers in South Korea Without Setting Up a Company There
South Korea came up in three separate client conversations last month. Same story each time: a US or European startup found strong engineering talent …
I’m Building a Canvas-Style Market Research Workspace — Does This Direction Make Sense?
I’ve been working on a product called MarketGeist, and I’m at that dangerous stage where an idea can still be either genuinely useful or just very wel…
Stop building custom auth for your B2B SaaS: Meet Gate Identity
Hello, fellow developers! 🧑💻 If you’ve ever built a B2B SaaS, you know the drill. Building the core business logic is the fun part. But then you hit …
Why I Stopped Waiting for a Patent and Built My Own Proof System
I spent 6 years writing a book. Original concepts, original frameworks, years of research. And one day I realized — I had zero proof any of it was min…