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A one-person software studio building small, useful SaaS tools — and writing about how they’re made. Below: notes from the build.
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One Week, Four Products — What Actually Shipped
A full in-browser manga editor built in a day, a dead weekend project revived, two new products before the week was out, and a bug I found by accident.
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Building Tsuyu: The Week My AI Video Machine Fought Back
One button turns a story into a finished video. Here's the week it took to get there — AI panel throttling, a dead image bot, and a 2.5-minute outage.
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Faceless YouTube shorts, zero editing — and they got views
Pick a Reddit thread, get back a finished short — no editing, no timeline, no captions. How effortless it got, and the real views my channel pulled.
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Claude Code runs my monorepo so I can ship from my phone
How I wired Claude Code into a cheap always-on server with self-running loops and guarded autonomy — and what it actually fixed while I wasn't looking.
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