Category: Blogging
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AI Is the Best Co-Founder
AI is the best co-founder I have ever had. That sounds like clickbait, but I mean it. For years, the standard startup advice was to find a co-founder. If you were technical, find somebody who could sell. If you were...
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The Competition Is Not the Problem
Every time I think about building something new, I can find a reason not to do it. Usually the easiest reason is competition. There are already hundreds of weather apps. There are plenty of URL shorteners. The App...
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Chrome Extensions Turn Shady
One of the best things about Chrome extensions is also one of the worst things about them: they sit directly inside your browser. That makes them incredibly useful, but it also means the extension can watch pages,...
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Marketing Is the Hard Part
It has never been easier to build software. With AI, a solo founder can design a landing page, scaffold a SaaS app, wire up billing, add analytics, and ship a usable product in days instead of months. That is a huge...
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How to Use YouTube Transcripts with ChatGPT
When I want to learn something quickly, I usually start with YouTube. Not because video is always the best format. It often is not. Video is slow to skim, hard to search, and easy to forget after you close the tab....
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How I Migrated This Blog from WordPress to Astro
For over 10 years, this blog has run on WordPress . It worked well for years, but recently I needed to migrate it to a new server, and it felt like too much for what is mostly a static site. This site does not need a...
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I Built a Tool to Help You Find Short Domains
If you’ve ever tried to find a short domain for your brand, you already know how this goes. You come up with a good, catchy domain name. You head to a registrar. It’s taken or crazy expensive. So you try another...
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Laravel Creator Spotlight
I recently joined Eric Barnes on the Laravel News Creator Series podcast , where I discussed my journey as a developer, the origins of T.LY URL Shortener , and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It was great to...
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The Rise and Fall of Goo.gl
What will happen when billions of links vanish overnight? That’s exactly what is going to occur when Google’s URL shortener, Goo.gl, shut down after dominating the link-shortening market for nearly a decade. Google...
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Build Your SaaS Podcast
I got a chance to be on the Build Your SaaS podcast with Justin Jackson and share my journey building side projects over the past 10+ years. I’ve been following Justin for years; it was awesome chatting with him! We...
