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Everything I shipped in 2 months (honest recap)
I was trying to explain to someone last week what I've been building and I started listing things and kind of shocked myself a little. Not in a braggy way — more like, huh, I guess those 11pm sessions actually add up. So I want to do a real recap because building in public means sharing the actual inventory, not just the wins that feel good to post about.
Read moreHow I actually use AI to build at night (not the hype version)
I keep seeing videos like "I built a full SaaS in 20 minutes with AI" and every time I watch one I'm like... okay but then what. Then what did you do for the next six weeks when the thing needed to actually work. That's not what building is. I want to talk about what it actually looks like when you use AI to build real apps and you have three kids and you can maybe get two focused hours on a good night.
Read moreThe security thing nobody explains and everybody needs
I was testing Fokas a few months ago and I realized I could, if I really wanted to, write a query that pulled another user's data. Not because I was trying to hack my own app — I was just testing edge cases the way you do when you're a backend engineer who knows where things break. But the fact that it was even possible meant I had a real problem and I needed to fix it before anyone else's data was in there.
Read moreI built a whole dashboard because I was drowning in tabs
Last month I had 14 tabs open at once — Threads analytics, TikTok studio, Instagram insights, a Google doc with content ideas, a Notion page I hadn't opened in three weeks, and a notes app on my phone that I kept meaning to "organize later." That was my content system, right. That was the whole thing.
Read moreMy entire tech stack costs $0 and it runs everything
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Read moreI scraped 10,000 products to find gaps nobody was talking about
I wanted to know what was actually selling on TikTok Shop vs Amazon — not what the gurus were saying was selling, not vibes, not "this niche is HOT right now." Actual data. So I built a scraper, pulled 10,000 products, loaded it all into a local SQLite database, and started looking. What I found was not what I expected.
Read moreI've been building in secret for years. That ends today.
I shipped something this week that scared me more than any production deploy I've done at work.
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