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, …
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I Shipped 5 Products Using These 11 AI Prompts (Open-Sourced, With Outputs)
I've launched five digital products in the last two months. Every launch artifact — the launch tweet, the Show HN post, the changelog entry, the cold …
What I Learned Switching Between Swift and AI Studio in the Same Week
As a solo developer building small, useful tools like Tab Reminder, my Chrome extension for scheduling tabs to reopen later, I often find myself switc…
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 min…
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-depth…
MarketNow is live in 33 countries — here's what the traffic actually looks like (no hype)
I run an MCP (Model Context Protocol) marketplace at marketnow.site . Today I pulled the Vercel analytics by country for the last period. Here's what …
I Built a BPS Website: Build, Push, Sleep
What is a BPS website? BPS stands for Build , Push , Sleep . It's a simple framework I use for shipping side projects: Build it fast with AI assistanc…
Two free image tools I use that need zero install
I edit a lot of images for the web and I got sick of heavy desktop apps and sketchy upload sites. Two browser tools ended up in my daily rotation: Com…
What I learned about Astro 5 glob loader path resolution in a pnpm monorepo
Conclusion first : Astro 5's glob loader resolves relative base paths from process.cwd() at build time — not from the config file's location. When you…
The Sandwich Test: How I Check If A Dev-Tool Idea Is Actually Winnable Before I Build It
Four dev-tool ideas this week. Four dead, all from the same cause, and it took me embarrassingly long to see the pattern instead of just the individua…
Why I Stopped Writing Changelogs (And How I Automated Them Instead)
Every week, I ship. New feature here, bug fix there, a small quality-of-life improvement I've been meaning to knock out for months. GitHub gets the co…
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_…
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 be…
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 s…
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…
I built a dev review site in 2 weeks — here's the stack, the rejections, and what I'd do differently
A few months ago I tried to find a "best stack under 100 USD a month" article for a side project. Every result was either an enterprise list with line…
No more vague 'Signature FAIL': x509Lab now tells you exactly WHY your cert chain is broken 🔍
Hey everyone, RocketSquirrel here. I am building x509Lab , a browser-based GUI tool for visualizing and testing X.509 certificate chains. In the previ…
I found 3 silent revenue-leaking bugs in my SaaS in 45 minutes (and the meta-lesson)
I run a small aviation SaaS ($45 MRR, 3 paying customers, 75% churn). This morning I decided to actually look at my data instead of write more code. I…
IndexNow, libSQL, and three other tools I reached for this week
I keep a running list of every tool I actually reached for each week — not the ones I meant to try, the ones that handled real work. This week's five …
I built a free, no-login, unlimited AI invoice tool. Here are the 4 features and the 5 5 3 dunning matrix behind it.
Cross-post notice: this is the canonical version. Reposts on Medium, Hashnode, and Indie Hackers will link back here. A few months ago I shipped a fre…
29 days, a 91k-line ERP, zero developers
One April morning, quarter to eight, Antoine leans into my office. Seventy-three years old, former director for three decades, retiring in September. …
Open-source AI I'm watching: DeepSeek V4, VibeVoice, and the n8n effect
Sunday is my day to skim what shipped, note what seems worth going deeper on, and write a short annotated list before the week catches up with me agai…
I Was About to Quit Ollama — Then I Deleted One File and Never Looked Back
I Was About to Quit Ollama — Then I Deleted One File and Never Looked Back Last month I almost quit using Ollama entirely. Not because it was slow. No…