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I Built an App With Almost No UI. That Was the Point.

The best review of my comedy app came from a table with four friends and a round of drinks — and my first version failed it. So I removed the joke format, then I removed the interface. Here is what a one-gesture app forces, why a 75-second ceiling is a table-length constraint, and the uncomfortable part for anyone whose day job is attention metrics.

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I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source

STRAŦUM v1 is now MIT-licensed and public. Nine agents, two Postgres schemas, ten locales — and a table that shipped with Row Level Security switched off, reachable by anyone holding the key that loads in the browser. Here is what I gave away, what I would not build the same way again, and why you are welcome to fork it and build your own.

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My AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.

June: $57.01. July: $33.09. Two months after switching to DeepSeek V4 Pro via OpenCode, my AI costs dropped 75%. The commit history proves I shipped more, not less — 786 commits across 4 products. Here's the full breakdown.

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I Evaluated 40 AI Podcasts Across 7 Languages. Six Pipeline Fixes Later, Here's What Improved.

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How I Write System Prompts That Actually Get Enforced (After My AI Hosts Said 'Trời ơi' 13 Times)

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The One Question That Killed an Entire Curriculum Architecture in a Week

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6 Months, 3 Game Projects, 0 Shipped

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The Code Was the Easy Part of Shipping Prova

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I Tried to Clip My Course into a YouTube Video. Here's Why I Rebuilt It Instead.

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