As an indie hacker, you face a major challenge. How do you compete against massive software companies with million-dollar marketing budgets? The answer is simple: you target highly specific niches.
While tech giants chase broad search terms, indie developers can ...
I’ll be direct about what happened.
While building my Cloud Resume on AWS, I lost several hours of work to a corrupted local file. My HTML was structured. My CSS was clean. My GitHub repository was completely empty — because I hadn’t prioritized pushing to it.
I’m writing this not as a cautionary tale, but as a practical argument for something I now consider non-negotiable: version cont...
Hey devs 👋
Quick one today — if you’re new to AWS (or even if you’re not), this is your reminder to set a billing alarm if you haven’t already.
AWS is pay-as-you-go, which means every running service is potentially adding to your bill. A billing alarm through CloudWatch + SNS will email you the moment your charges cross a threshold you define. Think of it as a smoke detector for your A...
So, armed with the knowledge of Tailwind and what it has to offer, how should we actually start our next large-scale project? To answer that question, it helps to look at how mature design-system teams structure frontend development in large organizations.
After a quick research, I've found that many successful ...
AWS bill spikes are almost never random. They follow four predictable signals: a service line that grew faster than your traffic, a region that was not in the plan, a usage type that was unused last month, and a percentage delta that crosses the 30% threshold. Catch all four early, and the next budget incident becomes a Slack notification, not a Monda...
AI tools are now everywhere inside companies.
Developers use ChatGPT. Marketing teams use Claude. Founders test Gemini. Someone connects an API key. Someone else pays for a separate account. Prompts, context, files, usage and costs are spread across personal tools, private chats and disconnected workflows.
At first, this works.
Then the team grows.
Suddenly, the ...