My Experience Building and Selling a Micro-SaaS Product in One Weekend
I had a folder of side project ideas that stared at me every time I opened my laptop. Most of them were big, ambitious,...
Porting a Game from Unity to Godot as a Solo Dev: An Honest Retrospective
I shipped my first commercial game, a small puzzle platformer called Latch, in early 2024 after building it in Unity over two years. It...
Reverse Engineering My Own Wi-Fi Dead Zones: A Home Network Overhaul
I had a recurring ritual every evening. I would sit on the couch, open my laptop, and watch the Wi-Fi icon cycle between two...
I Tried 5 No-Code Tools to Build the Same App: A Side-by-Side Comparison Based on Real Build Time
I have been a developer for over a decade, so naturally I have spent that entire decade rolling my eyes at no-code platforms. They...
How I Cut My Cloud Costs by 60% by Moving to a Single VPS
Last March, I stared at my AWS bill and felt a slow, creeping dread. It was $217. The month before, it had been $194....
My 30-Day Challenge: Building a Full-Stack App While Working a 9-to-5
I came up with the idea on a Wednesday evening, exhausted after a long day of debugging internal dashboards. What if I built and...
I Automated My Job Search Using Python Scripts: Here’s What Happened
I had just finished a grueling round of final interviews with a startup that seemed perfect. They ghosted me. No email, no closure, just...
The Brutal Lessons from Scaling My App from 100 to 10,000 Users in 6 Months
Six months ago, my app had exactly 103 users. They were mostly friends, a few Reddit strangers, and my mom (who opened it once...
Building a Raspberry Pi Home Server on a $75 Budget: A Step-by-Step Diary
I had been meaning to set up a proper home server for over a year. I wanted something that could run a few lightweight...
How I Migrated My Entire Workflow from Windows to Linux (and the 3 Things I’d Do Differently)
For over a decade, Windows was my home. I knew its quirks: the exact moment a blue screen was coming, the registry hacks to...
