#build in public
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How I Built Color Scheme Extractor
How I Built Color Scheme Extractor I built Color Scheme Extractor because I kept running into the same small design problem. I would land on a website that looked good, pause for a second, and think: "Why does this color system feel so clean?" Sometimes it was a SaaS landing page with one confident accent color....
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What I Learned Publishing My First Chrome Extension
What I Learned Publishing My First Chrome Extension Publishing my first Chrome extension felt different from pushing a normal web app. With a web app, I can deploy quietly, refresh the page, fix something, deploy again, and pretend the first version never happened. A Chrome extension feels more public. There is a...
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How I Built Extension Permission Monitor
I did not start Extension Permission Monitor because I wanted to build a security product. I started it because my own browser felt messy. I had too many Chrome extensions installed, and the uncomfortable part was not the number. It was the uncertainty. I could recognize some of the icons, but I could not explain what...
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I've Been Building Alone for Two Years. That Changes Today.
I have been building alone for two years. Not alone in the dramatic sense. I have friends. I have users. I have people who ask how things are going and people who are kind enough to listen when I explain a bug that took half a day to find. But the work itself has mostly happened quietly. The product decisions. The...
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How to Choose a SaaS Idea Small Enough to Actually Ship
Most SaaS ideas are too big on the first day. I do this to myself more often than I want to admit. I start with a useful problem, then I keep adding the things a "real product" should have: accounts, dashboards, teams, billing, analytics, onboarding, settings, email notifications, admin tools, a docs page, maybe a...
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The Real Workflow of a Solo Developer Using AI Agents
I opened this blog project today and had one of those small blank page problems that somehow eats an hour. This is the real AI agent workflow I used as a solo developer, not the clean version people describe after the work already looks obvious. I knew I wanted more posts. I did not know what the next post should be....
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