The Indie Hacker's Guide to UK Business Banking in 2026
If you're building a SaaS or side project as a solo founder in the UK, your bank account is infrastructure as much a part of your stack as your hostin…
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The $239,000 Manual Handoff Tax: The ROI of Deep AI-to-ERP Integration 💸
A note on the numbers upfront, because I'd rather you catch this than a client does: $239,000 is illustrative. It's a composite built from published b…
What Judges Actually Score: Notes From a Year of Hackathon Judging
I judged three hackathons over about ten days this July: MLH x DigitalOcean "AI for Social Good" on July 11, the Sports World Cup Hackathon in San Fra…
The Loneliness Protocol of a Solo Tech Founder
The Loneliness Protocol of a Solo Tech Founder Loneliness in entrepreneurship is as predictable as a server crash during peak traffic. For a solo foun…
How I Finally Stopped Paying For Tools I Wasn't Using
I spend a lot of time talking founders out of ideas that sound good in conversation but fall apart under scrutiny. This isn't because the ideas are ne…
How to Scale a Developer SaaS from 0 to 1 Lessons from Building PromptDev
Building a SaaS product is easy in 2026—technologies like Next.js, Vercel, and AI tools allow developers to launch products in days. However, scaling …
AI Wrappers Are Dying. Three Business Models Survived Instead.
In 2024, everyone and their manager launched an AI wrapper. A thin layer over GPT-4, a nice UI, a subscription fee, and boom: you were an AI company. …
Why Prompt Engineering Needs Software Architecture Principles (And How I Built PromptDev)
Most prompt libraries treat prompts like plain text snippets or random notes. But if you’re building production-grade AI features or complex system in…
The agency premium in India is 20% or 42% - and it depends on your GST registration, not their price
Disclosure: I work at ZoopCoder, a small development agency in India. So the whole point of this post is a number that argues against hiring us — 42% …
Building an AI Recruitment SaaS: Lessons Learned
Five months ago I deleted two months of work and started over. This is the honest version of what happened next building Beonmap , an AI-powered job d…
I built an AI-first bank statement converter. The one rule that stopped it lying to me.
When I started building StatementDecoder , I thought the difficult part would be reading bank statements. It wasn't. Reading them turned out to be rel…
Lean Startup Methodology: A First-Time Founder's Guide
Here's an uncomfortable number. When CB Insights analyzed 431 failed VC-backed startups in 2024, 43% died for the same reason: poor product-market fit…
I launched to zero signups, then found 5 features nobody could reach
I spent months building an AI agent platform. I launched it on Product Hunt yesterday. Zero signups. The comments were friendly. Three of the four ask…
Solo Founder or Startup Founder, What's right for you
The coffee shop on 2nd Street doesn't open until 7. I know because I've sat in my car in the parking lot at 6:17 AM three Tuesdays in a row, laptop ba…
Your first developer is statutorily your cheapest one: the in-house vs agency arithmetic in India
Disclosure: I work at ZoopCoder , an Indian development agency. That means I have an obvious commercial interest in you buying agency hours instead of…
Implementing Row-Level Access Control
Part 3 of the Omnismith "Core Platform Capabilities" series Securing data inside shared multi-tenant environments requires robust authorization bounda…
How to Deploy Production AI Agents That Pay For Themselves
Building a proof of concept with LangChain or LlamaIndex takes an afternoon. But there is a massive gulf between a terminal-based demo and a productio…
I Built a Web3 Social Media Platform Alone in 7 Months. Here Is What I Learned.
Here is the full article: Title: I Built a Web3 Social Media Platform Alone in 7 Months. Here Is What I Learned. On the 21st of December 2025, four da…
How ChatGPT Became Dietly's Top Referrer
Publishing notes How ChatGPT became our number one traffic source Dietly's most valuable discovery was not an SEO trick: clear, sourced answers to spe…
Engineering for Speed: Lessons from ReBALKAN’s Four-Platform Performance Tests
A multilingual marketplace has a performance problem before it has traffic. Every additional language can introduce new templates, fonts, assets, rout…
Contract Terms Worth Negotiating Beyond Price
Most vendor negotiations focus almost entirely on price, and price is usually the term with the least long-term leverage attached to it. A handful of …
Stop Hiding Behind Your Product. Go Talk to Customers.
Wanted to share this because I suspect some of you are doing the same thing I was. Before I start I'm a indie hacker. Years of engineering work traine…
Which AI model actually builds the best software? We built a public benchmark to find out
Today we're opening up Favur Evals — a public, live leaderboard for a question we kept needing an answer to ourselves: which model should I actually p…
Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly!
The Concentric Evolution of Y Combinator Alumni: From Generalist SaaS to Frontier AI The current landscape of the artificial intelligence industry is …
Designing AI Voice Agent Workflows for Electricians: Urgent Calls, Quotes, and Handoffs
A lot of AI phone demos look impressive until you put them in front of a real trade business. Electricians are a good stress test. The caller might ne…
My Indie Hacker Launch Strategy: What I'd Do Differently
Most Indie Hacker Launches Fail Before Anyone Sees Them Building in public has become the dominant piece of advice in the indie hacker world, but most…
The LLM Thought a Dollar Was Still ₦450: Building a Car Pricing Engine for a Market With No Data
How I built an AI valuation engine for Nigerian used cars, and what it taught me about why you should never let a language model price anything on its…
Logging workouts is solved. I'm building what comes after.
Every workout tracker I've tried has the same limitation: it records what you did, but it doesn't tell you what's going wrong. You finish a workout, l…
Your test suite is green. Your users still hit the bug.
Why scripted automation keeps missing the failures that actually cost you users — and what testing like a real person looks like. Every engineering te…
We're experimenting with AI-powered anime-style documentation.
Instead of writing long build logs or recording traditional vlogs, my co-founder and I wanted to try something different. We're documenting our startu…