📰 Dev.to · Alex Cloudstar

Every "submit your startup" listicle promises hundreds of free backlinks. Most of that advice is a decade out of date. Here is what actually happens to your dom

outbid.lol made six figures in under 48 hours and spawned a dozen clones overnight. I break down how the pay-to-rank leaderboard trend actually works, why it ex

I just moved justship.now into the number one project slot on my own portfolio, ahead of makers.page. Here is what it actually is, why a curated directory of 30

What building and publishing XPilot taught me about Manifest V3, OAuth, and the gap between "it works on my machine" and "it works in the Chrome Web Store."

I shipped a site where you pay to get publicly roasted by AI, ranked on a wall by how much it hurt your wallet. Then I ran it through ChatGPT live search to see

Hands-on guide to building a Model Context Protocol server in TypeScript, using a real published X-publishing MCP as the example.

Learn how to write startup product descriptions that get approved on directories. Includes templates, examples, and a checklist for indie founders.

A ranked guide to startup directories, launch platforms, and communities where indie founders should list their product in 2026, plus traps to avoid.

A first-person walkthrough of the tools, stack, and daily workflow behind makers.page: from idea to shipped product, the mistakes made along the way, and what I

A practical 12-week playbook for indie founders to get their first 100 users without paid ads, based on community-led growth, content SEO, and directory distrib

A step-by-step guide to buying a micro SaaS business in 2026: where to find listings, how to evaluate them, what due diligence to run, and how to negotiate a fa

Learn why dofollow backlinks matter for early-stage startups, how they differ from nofollow links, and where indie founders can earn quality directory links for

A practical guide to sharing your indie startup journey publicly while protecting your energy, mental health, and momentum over the long run.

I just shipped my first Chrome extension. Not a tutorial toy. Not a "hello world" that never left...

A few months ago I caught myself staring at a merge conflict for a solid two minutes, completely...

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 yesterday. It catches 4x more of its own code mistakes, runs hundreds of parallel subagents through Dynamic Workflows, and kee

Someone false-reported me on X and the account is gone. Reddit banned me permanently months ago. Two of the biggest distribution channels for indie hackers are

Infrastructure as Code told the machine exactly what to provision. Infrastructure as Vibe asks the machine to figure it out. After a decade of YAML and Terrafor

Most production AI features are still glueing prompts together with string concatenation in some random Node service. The prompt is the new SQL query and we are

Every AI coding tool now reads a config file. CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md. Most teams have three or four of them, wri

Most freelance developers I know are busy. Most of them also have no idea which clients are actually profitable. The gap between "billable hours on the invoice"

Vercel BotID went GA in mid-2025 and quietly replaced the visible CAPTCHA on a lot of indie SaaS sites in 2026. The promise is real: invisible bot detection tha

A single AI agent scraped one of my endpoints twenty-three thousand times in a night and turned a $40 OpenAI budget into a $312 invoice before I woke up. Most r

Every job queue tutorial is written for companies running ten thousand jobs a second. As a solo developer you do not need Sidekiq Pro and a Kubernetes cluster t