We're all learning how to ship more side projects. If you're "in the bubble" it can feel like everyone is repo-maxxing. Shipping weekly. Spinning up agents to scaffold full apps overnight. New OSS dropped every Friday. The reality I see with most developers is much more normal: They have six or seven repos sitting in various states of half-attention. A side project from last year that still gets a
Like many of you, I have thousands of photos spread across devices, cloud drives, and chat histories. Finding that one specific picture from "last summer's beach trip" meant endless scrolling. Folders and filenames don't help when you can't remember when or where you saved something.Morse Code Translator So I built a tool to fix my own problem. It turned into a real product. Upload your photos, an
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Picking a screenshot API feels binary until you start integrating, then the edges show: one service has a Python SDK but no async queue, another has webhooks but charges extra for authenticated pages, a third makes you wire up an S3 bucket yourself. This post walks through how Rendershot and Urlbox compare across the dimensions that actually hurt to change later. Upfront: I build Rendershot, so tr
The first AI feature I shipped on a flat plan lost money on the third user who discovered it. Not slowly. Immediately. He was running a script through it on a loop because the UI did not stop him from doing that, and his single account burned through more in API costs that week than the feature was supposed to make in a month. I shipped the fix on a Sunday and rewrote the pricing on a Tuesday, and
Why We Open-Sourced Our AI Safety Layer When we built the AI safety layer for As You Wish (AYW), we faced a choice: keep it proprietary or open-source it to help the community. Here's why we chose the latter (and why it made our platform stronger). If you're building AI-assisted development tools, you need: Input validation (sanitizing prompts, preventing injection) Output filtering (catching u
If you want to Automate GitHub PRs, the real goal is not just adding another bot comment to a pull request. The goal is to give reviewers the context they usually have to gather manually: who owns the service, whether it is deployed, whether basic repository standards are in place, and whether the change looks safe to merge. A useful AI pull request workflow can do exactly that. When a PR opens, i
The problem we kept seeing Product, marketing, and CX teams want on-site feedback, NPS, and lightweight announcements (changelog nudges, maintenance banners, promos) on real pages—marketing sites, docs, and product surfaces. another heavy client SDK or a multi-week integration just to ship those surfaces. a small script + a widget on the page. Saytics—what we optimized for, the tradeoffs that fa