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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...

Permissions are not just a technical detail. They are one of the first product decisions a user sees. That is especially true for browser extensions. A landing page can be polished, the icon can look trustworthy, and the feature can solve a real problem. But if Chrome shows a permission warning that sounds broader...

The first five minutes of an API matter more than most builders admit. That is usually when a developer decides whether your API feels obvious or expensive. Not expensive in price. Expensive in attention. I have closed API docs before because the first request was unclear, the auth example was buried, or the error...

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...

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....