Insights on solo development, AI tools, and building digital products as an independent developer.
Comparing Polar and Stripe for solo developers. Merchant-of-record billing for digital products versus the payments default. Fees, taxes, and which to pick.
I built a small content registry that scans every blog and verifies each post is actually reachable and in the sitemap, not just marked published in a row somewhere.
My scheduled jobs silently failed for two weeks because a token went empty. The fix was to run them as native k3s CronJobs on the node where the runner already lived.
My draft roguelike was too easy. A strong team won the cup two-thirds of the time, so winning meant nothing. Here is how I stopped guessing and tuned it to a real one-in-three with a few hundred simulated runs.
Comparing Kinde and Clerk for solo developers. Two hosted auth providers with different pricing models and feature sets. Which to use and when.
A recipe-driven Playwright engine that submits one product to many directory sites by modeling the form pattern, not the site, with explicit success detection.
How I turned a script into a finished video with code instead of a timeline app, and why determinism is the real win for a solo dev.
Comparing Better Auth and Lucia for solo developers. Batteries-included TypeScript auth versus a minimal session library. Which to pick in 2026 and why.
I wanted real footballer photos on the cards in my draft game, free-licensed only. The fetch was easy. Not shipping the philosopher Socrates instead of the footballer was the hard part. Here is the pipeline and the disambiguation fix.
How to orchestrate a large generation or audit job across parallel AI agents with adversarial verification and looping quality gates, instead of trusting one giant prompt.
Agentic AI coding gives real leverage only when you decompose work, isolate it, anchor it with durable context, and verify the output. Here is how I direct it.
Comparing Coolify and Dokploy for solo developers. Two self-hosted PaaS options that replace Vercel and Heroku. Features, polish, and which to install.
How I added paid checkout to a SvelteKit app using Whop's embedded iframe, and why a verified server webhook, not the browser callback, grants access.
Players draft the team but never play the match, so the simulation has to feel fair. Here is the possession-and-event model behind World 11, why it is deterministic from a single seed, and what that buys you for free.
How I scoped and shipped a searchable AI and SaaS tool directory solo. Search as the core UX, original long-form content as the moat.