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HundRoses: The DIY Approach to Dating Apps Nobody Else Is Trying

Just like indie music exists outside the mainstream record label system, HundRoses is building a dating app outside the corporate dating app monopoly. And it’s worth paying attenti...

Your changelog page has no readers — here's what actually works

Most indie SaaS founders I know have the same changelog problem: they ship every week to GitHub, nobody writes release notes, and if there IS a changelog page it has not been updat...

I Tested Every Tool Creators Use to Manage Brand Deals.

Notion, Airtable, HoneyBook, Passionfroot — they all work. Just not for this.Continue reading on Medium »

Monetizing a Vibe-Coded Website Is Risky. So Replit Is Making It Easier With a Major Partnership

Thanks to a new collaboration, Replit is giving people a simpler way to make money with their vibe-coded apps and websites.

I built a fundraising platform for indie devs — where backers get their money back if it flops

Refundable, non-custodial onchain fundraising on Solana — built for small teams and independent builders. Raising money as a small team or a solo dev usually comes down to two bad...

Meet the vibe coders who want to be the 'MrBeast' of apps

A new class of content creators is emerging in the era of vibe coding. Danger Testing raised $2.6 million to capitalize.

The Indie Era: Why Independent Creators Are Rewriting the Rules of Entertainment

The entertainment industry is changing as independent creators, like the developers of Five Nights at Freddy's and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, find success with bolder creative id...

I built a free DSA interview prep site because I was tired of the existing options

So here's the thing - I've been prepping for DSA interviews on and off for like 2 years now. And every time I open up one of those big platforms (you know the ones), I get hit with...

The design bottleneck for solo founders? AI has solved it.

Presented by Design.comSomething significant is happening in how people build businesses. There are currently 29.8 million solopreneurs contributing $1.7 trillion to the U.S. econo...

The quiet marketing problem every indie creator runs into

You finish the thing. The game, the book, the app, whatever it is. You spent months — maybe years — on it. And then you push it out into…Continue reading on Medium »

How much do indie game developers make?

Hope this is the right place for this kind of discussion. I've been working in the game industry for a few years now, mostly on the larger studio side of things. Like many, I imagi...

Bootcamps, work trials, token burn: Inside the recruiting practices at the hottest AI coding startups

At Replit, X profiles have become the "main medium" for recruiting, said the company's chief people officer.

The Solo Developer's Secret: Why Boring Tech is More Profitable

Every morning, I see the same thing on my Twitter feed or the GitHub Trending page. A new Ruby gem is…

Code with Jason: People Buy From People

Originally appeared on John Nunemaker.I went on Code with Jason for the second time. Jason and I got into the Fireside acquisition, how to actually find and finance a business to b...

From Late-Night Coding Frustration to Building an EdTech Startup

Let me describe a scene that every CS student or self-taught developer knows too well. It's 11pm. You're staring at a LeetCode problem. You read the solution three times. You under...

Building a Japanese-First Read-Later PWA: From Pocket Shutdown to Launch

When Mozilla shut down Pocket in July 2025, I lost my favorite tool. Worse, none of the English alternatives (Instapaper, Readwise, Matter, Raindrop) had Japanese UI, and their art...

What I Learned from the Recent Wave of Package Hacks (And Is Cowork Immune?)

Share this article | Listen to this article ($)I love being a builder. I feel like I have a new superpower and I can't get enough of it.I enjoy tinkering with my Claude Code workfl...

I built a Mac app that turns web pages into live widgets

I'm the developer of Kepo, a Mac app I started building because I kept checking the same web pages over and over again. Product Hunt launches. Reddit threads. GitHub releases. You...

Hice un centro de búsqueda de empleo local-first — sin nube, sin telemetría

Buscando trabajo me cansé de saltar entre la terminal, Claude Code y un montón de archivos markdown — y no quería subir mi CV a otro SaaS más. Así nació career-ops-ui: una interfaz...

# вљ™пёЏ I Spent Months Building a Pixel-Art Universe Called *Cog & Cosmos* рџЊЊ

Every developer eventually faces a difficult choice: Build another to-do app. Or create an absurdly over-engineered game with eight interconnected worlds, giant numbers, prestige...

I've been thinking about building a vehicle rental platform, but I'm hesitant because there are already so many establis...

The Quarterly Habit That Keeps Indian Startup Teams Sharp — And Almost Nobody Does It

A 20-minute app audit across your team’s devices. Free. High-impact. Consistently skipped.Continue reading on Medium »

Vibe coding is being called the greatest unlock for non-techies. These 9 startups are raising billions.

These entrants are competing with far bigger players, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft, that make their own AI-powered coding tools.

SciFi IRL: From Indie to Epic

Why “Independent” Doesn’t Have to Mean “Small” Anymore For more than 20 years, I’ve worked with independent artists in music, film, television, visual art, fashion, and plenty of p...