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How a brand-new firewall took down international company for 37 minutes — and why LACP told us...

I have been working on MetricSync, an iPhone AI food logging app, and one UX problem keeps coming...

I have been building MetricSync, an iPhone AI food logging app, and the biggest UX lesson so far is...

I used to think the hardest part of AI food logging was the photo. Can the model recognize chicken?...

AI food logging demos usually show the cleanest case: Take a photo, get calories and macros,...

Most AI food logging demos look clean: Take a photo The app detects the meal Tap save Real meals...

I used to think the best AI food logging flow would be simple: Take a photo, let the model identify...

A lot of Mac utilities fail for the same reason: they technically work, but they interrupt you at the...

I have been building an iPhone AI nutrition tracker, and the first version of my thinking was too...

Most utility alerts fail for a simple reason: they are technically correct, but they show up at the...

Most app ideas sound better before you time the actual user action. I have been working on a small...

I have been thinking about AI food logging from the product side, and the camera is not the hard...

Most food logging apps optimize for the first guess. Take a photo. Scan a barcode. Type a meal. Let...

The easiest way to lie to yourself as an indie builder is to look at revenue without looking at usage...

A few months ago I had one of those dumb founder moments where you stare at a bill and think: wait,...

I kept opening bills and thinking the same thing: why did this cost jump so fast? It was not because...

I kept seeing the same pattern in my own work. The bill was never the first problem. The first...

I opened an AI invoice recently and felt the stomach drop that every solo developer knows too...

A practical guide to building modern public open-source projects on GitHub — from idea and README to releases, community, and a repository that looks profession

Flat pricing works really well for traditional SaaS. You charge a fixed monthly fee, users get...

Other project idea I recently decided to build in public was inspired by the NASA Exoplanet Query...

One of the things I’ve been trying to do lately is take project prompts seriously enough to turn them...

I recently built Drink Daily, a hydration tracking web app designed to be free, simple to use, and...

Six months into building MosesTab, our church management platform, we had a grand total of twelve...