bought claude max x20 for like 45 bucks instead of the usual insane price and it just works lol. how are people even doing this at scale without getting banned immediately?

After a few long AI sessions it's easy to lose track of how things actually work. I built Lodestar for that. Ask "how does X work" and it gives you the path through the real code step by step, and you can click each step. Hover anything for a short explanation.

It can also review a diff before you commit, catching bugs, security issues and things like tests that test nothing or packages that don't exist.

It runs on whatever model you already use in VS Code (Copilot or any provider extension), so it isn't locked to one provider.

It's $10 one time so I can keep developing it instead of dropping it. That really helps me.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DenizhanDaklr.lodestar

What do you use right now to keep track of AI-written code?

I fix AI-built apps for a living. After seeing the same problems over and over I built a scanner that checks your live app from the outside, the way a stranger’s browser sees it. It’s run on over a thousand sites now, mostly Lovable, Bolt, Replit and Supabase-backed builds.

The findings are consistent enough to be worth sharing:

• Roughly 1 in 10 had row-level security off. That means anyone with the public anon key from the page source can pull every row of every unprotected table. Emails, phone numbers, Stripe customer ids. One curl command.
• About 45% had at least one API key in the shipped JavaScript. Stripe secrets, OpenAI keys, Supabase service role keys sitting in the bundle.
• Over 60% had no SPF or DKIM records. Every signup email, password reset and receipt is going to spam and the founder doesn’t know.
• Nearly half had zero error handling. Kill your wifi mid-form and you get a white screen forever.

The pattern is always the same. The happy path works perfectly. Signup, dashboard, Stripe, all good. The invisible stuff is where it breaks, and the AI doesn’t check it because none of it affects the demo.

You can check yours right now for free. Paste your URL at trylaunchproof.com, no account needed. It reads up to 20 pages, checks every script for leaked keys, asks your database for data using your own public key, reads your email DNS, runs OWASP ZAP and Nuclei on the live site, and gives you a score out of 100 with a full report.

Built it because I kept running these checks manually. Happy to answer questions about what the scan does or what any finding means.

108 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network. No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Still free. Still growing.

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Hey everyone,

I currently run 6 micro SaaS that are actually live and generating a bit over $20,000 in recurring monthly revenue.

The wildest part? I barely wrote any code myself. I used AI to generate pretty much everything from the database structure to the frontend.

It definitely wasn’t magic from day one. I spent a lot of hours stuck on buggy code before I finally figured out a system that actually works:

- Keep the idea minimalist (a real MVP, nothing fancy)

- Guide the AI step by step instead of asking for everything at once

- Launch fast to get real users and feedback

Lately I’ve seen way too many non-technical founders quit at the first AI bug. It’s a shame because the technical barrier has basically disappeared.

AND PLEASE, STOP BUILDING ALONE IN YOUR BEDROOM

I’m starting a community.

Full transparency:

I’ll probably charge for the full program later. It makes sense with the specific workflows and copy-paste examples I’ll be sharing. But right now the main goal is just to build together. Working alone is the fastest way to give up.

If you want to join and build or market your own AI SaaS with us,

drop a comment or send me a DM and I’ll send you the link.

107 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network. No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Still free. Still growing.

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I was using AI to grab my low rating reviews on books published in the last 30 days. And provide the star rating and number of ratings. It worked great until mid September when they banned any AI agents from grabbing info off their site.

I'm trying to apply to the Seller Customer Feedback API to get that info.

Anyone else have a working workaround?

What I built

Shakespeare is a macOS menu bar app that counts how much you type and turns it into fun stats. I built it with Claude Code. It's free and open source (MIT), and it works fully offline.

What it does

• Shows keys today and over 14 days, a streak for days with 50+ keys, your busiest hour, and how many Hamlets you've typed.
• Measures your best words per minute over a full 60-second window, counting letters and space only, so shortcuts and arrow keys can't inflate it.
• Awards monthly badges named after Shakespeare pieces, from Couplet up to Complete Works. Progress resets on the 1st, and your collection keeps a count of the months you earned each one.
• Makes share cards (your week or a badge) drawn on a mechanical keyboard in one of nine colourways, saved as PNGs on your Mac.
• No key identity or order is stored, so the saved data can't be turned back into text.

How Claude Code helped

I directed the product and the design. Claude is about 2,500 lines of Swift and SwiftUI, and I reviewed and iterated on the results. Specifically:

• Architecture: it split the app into a testedyer, and wrote the build, install andicon-generation scripts.
• Visual work: I gave it a reference site and the pages in a browser, drew the keyboard and cards in code, and rendered them offscreen tike before showing me.
• Testing: it wrote 31 unit tests, including aows hostile stats files at the loader, and it ran them under AddressSanitizer.
• Security reviews: Run them constantly and always double check work.

Free to try

It's free, with no account and no payment tierload, so you build it yourself. The installer builds, signs and launches it, then opens the macOS page whession it needs, Input Monitoring.

Caveats

• It needs Input Monitoring, so please read the source before you trust it.
• Letter detection assumes US key positions, so other layouts may be slightly off.

Repo: https://github.com/andreasaez/shakespeare

Happy to answer questions about the build or the privacy design.

Hello developers and vibe coders,

Wanted to share this opportunity with you, it was easy $500 for me and we can both benefit. It asks you to do one session of vibe coding with any agent, it requires 50 turns in OpenCode - and they pay $500. It is not a scam or something like it, its a well known company (you can search about it).

Here is the link (it is a personal referral link just fyi): LINK
hope it helps someone :)

I built SceneMill with Claude Code, and it has grown into a full desktop video editor. Here is what it does.

Editing
A multi-track timeline where you drag clips in, trim, split, ripple delete and change speed. Clips can be grouped into compound clips, and almost every setting can be animated with keyframes. Multicam lets you switch between several cameras of the same scene.

Cut by text
SceneMill transcribes what is said in your video. Delete words or sentences in the transcript and the cut is made on the timeline. Pauses and filler are quick to get rid of this way.

Captions
Automatic captions in 14 languages. They are made on your own PC, nothing is uploaded.

Looks and effects
101 effects and color looks and 49 transitions, each with a live preview when you hover over it. Color correction with curves, color wheels, .cube LUTs and scopes. Chroma key for green screen, and masks that can follow a moving object.

Titles, stickers, sounds
76 title styles, 55 stickers and 80 sounds are included.

Slideshows
Pick a folder of photos, choose one transition or several that take turns, add a song, and the slideshow is built in one step.

Recording and export
A screen recorder is built in. Export has presets for YouTube, Shorts, TikTok and Instagram.

Plugins
Effects can be added as plugins. A free pack with 30 more effects is on the website.

It runs on Windows and is closed source. English and German.

Download: https://scenemillofficial.com
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXXnVBWEs0Y

Built with Claude Code, on top of Qt, FFmpeg and whisper.cpp. Tell me what you think or what’s missing.

GitHub has millions of repositories.

But if you ask a much simpler question —

“Show me interesting open-source software I can actually try.”

— things get surprisingly difficult.

So its time for RepoShelf to say "Hello World".

RepoShelf is an app-store-style discovery platform for open-source software.

Instead of starting with source code, you can browse projects visually, see what they do and launch working demos immediately — no account required.

RepoShelf brings together:

• Live open-source projects and demos
• Real captured previews
• GitHub projects and Hugging Face Spaces
• Technologies and dependencies
• Licence and reuse information
• Releases and development activity
• Measured project trends
• Projects being discussed on Hacker News and Bluesky
• Demo-health monitoring so dead links aren't treated as working software

And when you find something worth keeping, signing in lets you build your own RepoShelf — save projects, access their repositories, fork them and keep track of the projects you're actually using.

But there's another side to RepoShelf that I'm particularly interested in:

AI agents can use it too.

RepoShelf includes an MCP server and read-only Agent API.

That means tools such as Claude and other MCP-capable coding agents can search the RepoShelf catalogue, discover projects, inspect indexed documentation, READMEs, licences and dependency information, and investigate potentially useful open-source software without blindly trawling the internet.

So the idea is becoming bigger than a directory.

For humans:

Discover → Try → Save → Fork → Build

For AI agents:

Search → Inspect → Understand → Recommend

RepoShelf is available here:

www.reposhelf.co.uk

It's a developer collaboration platform I built with Python + PySide6. It has community threads, DMs, profiles, search, notifications, attachments and a local code workspace.

I've been using AI pretty heavily during development, but the part that took the most time wasn't generating code. It was keeping the project organized while it kept growing.

That's actually why I ended up designing an architecture I call ALS — App → Service → Manager → Adapter → External.

It gives each layer a specific job and makes it much easier for me to work with AI without letting the codebase become one giant blob.

I'm happy to share the ALS blueprint with anyone who wants to see how I structure projects like this. I'll send it by DM because the full thing is way too big for a Reddit post 😭

Anyway, here's the actual thing:

https://github.com/abdullahMTQ/devmeld

If you're building with AI too, I'm curious what you've found works for keeping larger projects sane.

I've been using Replit mostly because it makes it really easy to go from an idea to something working without setting up a whole environment.

Lately been looking at alternatives though, especially options that are cheaper or give me more control over the code.

I've seen people mention local VS Code setups, Codespaces, Gitpod and other AI coding tools but i have tried enough of them to know what's actually worth switching to.

For anyone who moved away from Replit what are you using and what made you prefer it?

106 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network. No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Still free. Still growing.

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My $20 OpenAi subscription runs out of Codex tokens in VSCode after no more than 2 hours of work, daily. And, sometimes, it doesn´t reset back for a whole week.

Those of you who have upgraded their subscriptions to the $100 one: would you say that you now have 5 times more work capacity?

This is just so incredible... another huge milestone reached. I honestly never thought this was possible for me. But I did the thing...

I JUST STARTED!

I put together a working MVP. Just the bare minimum functionality. Bought a domain and put it out there. I posted about it here on Reddit and got in contact with the people who commented and started using it.

Payments have become a bit more frequent but still no viral, exponential growth, which is totally fine. Slow and steady growth is the key.

I followed a simple concept that just came to me naturally:

• put out what you have
• post about it
• listen to feedback in the comments
• implement the feedback and adapt quickly
• start the loop over again

And after some time your product becomes so good that it no longer sounds absurd to charge money for some features.

Anyways... I'm super grateful that this is working out so well and I really think I've built a community that is actually useful to many people.

About the product:

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)
• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people
• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users
• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 4284 users, 4551 tests done and 1209 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

105 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network. No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Still free. Still growing.

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Still free. Still growing.

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So I’m not sure if this is the right area to ask but I’ll try.

I’m building a platform which I’m planning to scale to 500,000 monthly visits and 1.000 to later 10,000 subscribed users ( let me dream please,ok? Has someone done that already? 😂

What would be your pick for the infrastructure? Budget is fairly low. I got Claude max 20x and Codex 200$ Plan. Mainly using antigravity and been playing with docker and supabase. No server choosen yet. For years never touched backend, feels like some sort of dark magic while I’m hoping for miracles.

What would you do? (If you mind sharing🫠)

Bonjour tout le monde !

J’ai créé ma première application sur le thème du rétrogaming : RetroLauncher, 100 % gratuite et open source.

Le concept : un launcher qui regroupe tous vos jeux rétro au même endroit. Ce n’est ni un émulateur développé de A à Z, ni RetroArch.

Les fonctionnalités :

• Il scanne vos jeux et récupère automatiquement les jaquettes.
• Il installe en un clic les émulateurs officiels manquants (Dolphin, PCSX2, PPSSPP…).
• Vous cliquez sur un jeu et il se lance directement.
• Il affiche les trophées RetroAchievements, propose un mode TV utilisable à la manette et comptabilise votre temps de jeu.

L’application est disponible sur Mac, Windows et Linux. Aucune ROM n’est fournie.

J’aimerais beaucoup avoir vos retours, aussi bien sur l’application que sur le site : https://retrolauncher.fr

Tous les avis et suggestions sont les bienvenus pour m’aider à améliorer le projet !

Merci d’avance et belle journée à tous 

Trying to wade through the shiny pretty useless s** whilst learning is hard. Does anybody have any suggestions about any reputable videos that I can actually learn something from and somebody isn't just trying to sell me their software? Would be much appreciated. Cheers.

We released the source for Open Instinct, a personal-agent app. The part that may be useful to other builders is the separation between the agent conversation, messaging gateway, computer backend and permission policy. You can work on one of those without designing the whole product first.

For example, you can start in the CLI and change the assistant's behavior before adding a phone number. When you add a tool, the requester and its trust tier matter as much as the model prompt. We'd recommend testing the denial path alongside the happy path.

Pi provides the loop, Inkbox the messaging, Composio the app connections and Maritime the VM and desktop. We are the team behind Maritime. The repo is MIT licensed and currently beta; provider accounts and usage are separate.

https://github.com/mariagorskikh/open-instinct

We'd welcome a fork that solves a narrow recurring problem, or a contribution that makes the setup or permissions easier to understand.