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Why We Left Shopify to Self-Build Our Store (and How "Vibe Coding" Made It Possible)

My wife and I run a small e-commerce store — she handles marketing and ads, I handle the tech and logistics. After a good run on Shopify, we recently moved..

If you've ever pasted a Markdown doc full of LaTeX equations and Mermaid diagrams into a converter and gotten back a mess — broken formulas, missing charts, raw code where..

Stock charts are everywhere and almost nobody feels them. A line goes up, a line goes down — it's abstract until it's your money. I wanted to see if you..

Most products treat the first 30 seconds as a chance to capture something — an email, an account, a tutorial completion. I built a small browser puzzle game and did..

Two rejections. Both said the same thing: "low-value content." If you've applied to Google AdSense and gotten that message, you know the spiral — you start questioning every page, every..

Every time you use a "free online image converter," there's a quiet question most people never ask: where do my files actually go? For the vast majority of these tools,..

A while back I did what a lot of indie makers do: I looked at the AI image boom and thought, "I'll build a generator too." It took about three..

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Why We Left Shopify to Self-Build Our Store (and How "Vibe Coding" Made It Possible)

Why Almost Every Markdown Converter Breaks Your Math and Diagrams

I Turned Stock Charts Into a Motocross Track. Here's What Gamifying Data Taught Me.

No Signup, No Tutorial, No Numbers: What Building a Puzzle Game Taught Me About Friction

AdSense Rejected Me Twice for "Low-Value Content." The Real Reason Was Timing.

Most "Free Online Converters" Upload Your Photos. I Built One That Literally Can't.

I Tried to Build "Another AI Image Generator." Here's What Actually Got Traffic.