Everyone understands the principle of 'using your own product,' but its true value lies not in the act of using, but in the insights you encounter that testers will never report and that you won't think of when writing requirements. I didn't type a single word for this article; everything was spoken to VoiceDoz.
A few days ago I added a Google AdSense script to my blog, just to see if it would go through. After a few days of review, Google came back with: low value content. It stung at first, but thinking it over, it's actually a kind of confirmation.
The manual tells a very enticing story—AI has reshuffled the cost structure of entrepreneurship. But as someone running three projects simultaneously, what I felt after reading it was not 'I can create more,' but 'I need to restrain myself more.'
In the past two years, the independent developer community has been focused on SaaS, AI, and purely digital products. However, the project I just launched is a Hibachi home dining website—where the chefs come to your living room.
HTML Anything has been released, and Anthropic claims they have fully switched to HTML internally. Technically more accurate does not equate to economically viable. A reflection from an external developer on token billing.
The two products I'm shipping at the same time are completely different species. One has a high ceiling but needs me in the room; the other has a low ceiling but truly runs without me. Why indie devs in the AI era should think in dual tracks.
Don't use AI to write articles. Use AI to turn structured data into multilingual content, and let search engines drive free traffic to you.
AI-generated content, auto-updated data, auto-published pages. I just set up the templates once, and AI does the rest. This is what true passive income looks like.
Spent hours building a screenshot tool in Rust called SnapDoz, only to find out Claude Code already supports pasting screenshots directly.
