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I Found a Free Domain Platform Built by an 18-Year-Old — and It Actually Works

Adithyan G1d ago • 4 min read

I Found a Free Domain Platform Built by an 18-Year-Old — and It Actually Works

For most developers, buying a domain is treated as a normal part of building something online. But....

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Your AI agent reports 80% task completion. It fabricated it.

MVPBuilder_io4d ago • 5 min read

Your AI agent reports 80% task completion. It fabricated it.

There is an old idea in economics called Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes the target, it cease...

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I gave Claude the full spec. It gave me 47 files. I shipped nothing for 3 months.

MVPBuilder_io4d ago • 5 min read

I gave Claude the full spec. It gave me 47 files. I shipped nothing for 3 months.

The plan was perfect. I had a full spec. Clean architecture. Claude had generated a 47-file scaffol...

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Building a Mac-native Subaru ECU tuning tool in Rust

Andrey Sazonov3d ago • 6 min read

Building a Mac-native Subaru ECU tuning tool in Rust

If you want to tune a Subaru ECU on a Mac in 2026, you have three options: Run a Windows VM with.....

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# ⛽ I Built a Cross-Platform Fuel Finder with React & Supabase: The Indie Dev Journey

jicoing6d ago • 3 min read

# ⛽ I Built a Cross-Platform Fuel Finder with React & Supabase: The Indie Dev Journey

As someone who loves long road trips, I was tired of switching between five different apps to find a...

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Tentei criar uma CLI para governar código gerado por IA — e descobri que o problema era outro

Marcos Filipe5d ago • 7 min read

Tentei criar uma CLI para governar código gerado por IA — e descobri que o problema era outro

Nos últimos tempos eu venho estudando bastante desenvolvimento assistido por IA, agentes de código,....

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I'm 15 and I built a todo app with Telegram Stars payments — only legal way for me to monetize before turning 18

Doday5d ago • 6 min read

I'm 15 and I built a todo app with Telegram Stars payments — only legal way for me to monetize before turning 18

Hey dev.to, So this is a weird story and I wanted to share it. Stick with me, the...

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I Built a Free Sticker Maker Because Every Other One Hid the Export

MakeMyStickers5d ago • 2 min read

I Built a Free Sticker Maker Because Every Other One Hid the Export

Every "free" sticker and label maker I tried did one of three things: forced a signup, stamped a...

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Gilson Leite Siqueira Junior3d ago • 5 min read

Dubweave, for Aline

I built dubweave for my wife, Aline. She speaks Portuguese, and I kept finding these videos (essays,...

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I built a 32-bit OS from scratch and named it after my mom

Gyimah-Benjamin5d ago • 1 min read

I built a 32-bit OS from scratch and named it after my mom

The Beginning A few months ago I didn't know what a bootloader was. Today I have a working...

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Manan Santoki3d ago • 18 min read

The Paywall Was a Painted Door

How a $300 plane ticket turned into a free flight-search tool, a responsible-disclosure report, a...

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I Built a Mix Translation Tool in a Single HTML File

Christian Chukwuma Okonkwo Jnr5d ago • 6 min read

I Built a Mix Translation Tool in a Single HTML File

Here's How How I used the Web Audio API to simulate eight playback environments, run spectral...

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I built 70+ free browser tools in plain HTML/CSS/JS — here's what I learned

Raja Mashood Elahi 4d ago • 6 min read

I built 70+ free browser tools in plain HTML/CSS/JS — here's what I learned

I built 70+ free browser tools in plain HTML, CSS and JS — here's what I learned A few...

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I gave an AI a sleep schedule, dreams, and a personal blog

米饭3d ago • 2 min read

I gave an AI a sleep schedule, dreams, and a personal blog

I gave an AI a sleep schedule, dreams, and a personal blog I built nan — an AI character...

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Building a Side Project with AI Pair Programming: Lessons Learned with Sharebox

Odilon HUGONNOT1d ago • 5 min read

Building a Side Project with AI Pair Programming: Lessons Learned with Sharebox

What it really looks like to develop a project from scratch with an AI as a permanent pair — archite...

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CI/CD for Side Projects: 3 Pragmatic Design Choices

Mustafa ERBAY2d ago • 11 min read

CI/CD for Side Projects: 3 Pragmatic Design Choices

Side projects are both a learning ground and a platform for testing new ideas for many of us. I, too...

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What I Learned Building My First Chrome Extension for Google Calendar

James Brown1d ago • 6 min read

What I Learned Building My First Chrome Extension for Google Calendar

Recently I launched my first Chrome extension: Tint Calendar, a small tool that adds more color...

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I built a privacy-first PDF merger in 7 hours — here's the stack and the lessons

swapfileio4d ago • 4 min read

I built a privacy-first PDF merger in 7 hours — here's the stack and the lessons

Day 8 of building SwapFile.io in public. How pdfunite beats rasterization, why my conversion_jobs ta...

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GitHub Suspended My 2-Year Developer Account — Here’s What I Learned

Kelvin Agyare Yeboah 1d ago • 2 min read

GitHub Suspended My 2-Year Developer Account — Here’s What I Learned

𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝘆 𝟮‑𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 — 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗪�...

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Siradj1d ago • 2 min read

I Built a Fully Private QR Code Generator with Logo Art, Scanner, Bulk Export, and PDF Support

Hey, For the past few weeks I’ve been very deep in a redesign of the QR Code Generator on my site,....

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I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built one in Java

bloodSUCKER1d ago • 1 min read

I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built one in Java

I got tired of bloated reminder apps, so I built my own I only wanted this: “Remind me about X at....

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Kuba Brzeziński4d ago • 4 min read

BookEase - booking plugin for WordPress

I got frustrated with $89 WordPress booking plugins — so I built my own And it actually...

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AasPass: A lightweight, local-first password vault for developers

Hritik Pawar5d ago • 4 min read

AasPass: A lightweight, local-first password vault for developers

When I started building AasPass, I wanted to solve a very specific problem: How can developers.....

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Months of self-testing: Citations shine, other features remain unproven.

owjdie@163.com3d ago • 3 min read

Months of self-testing: Citations shine, other features remain unproven.

ok so full disclosure: I'm the person who built this. I'm not here to drop a pitch deck on you — I.....

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