Hot take: newsletters shouldn't need a SaaS subscription that costs more than your coffee habit. Built giv1.com — free newsletters + podcast hosting. No paywall, no vendor lock-in. Just write and publish. The creator economy doesn't need another $29/mo tool. It needs simple infrastructure that gets out of your way.

Giv1

Giv1 - Newsletter & Podcast Platform

Giv1 is a newsletter and podcast platform for creators. Publish, grow, and monetize your audience.

Every crypto payment gateway asks you to trust them with your keys. That's just a bank with extra steps. Non-custodial means YOU control the wallets. Generate addresses, manage keys, get Stripe-like webhooks when payments land. Multi-chain. Escrow built in for freelancers and agent-to-agent transactions. No middleman touching your funds. Ever.

CoinPay

CoinPay - Non-Custodial Crypto Payment Gateway

Accept cryptocurrency payments with automatic fee handling and real-time processing

Screen sharing in 2026 still means one person drives while the other watches. Pair programming shouldn't feel like a spectator sport. pairux.com is open source collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous mouse and keyboard control for both sides. Think Screenhero before Slack killed it. No account needed for viewers. Free. Secure by design.

PairUX

PairUX - Collaborative Screen Sharing with Remote Control

Real-time screen sharing with simultaneous remote mouse and keyboard control. Like Screenhero, but open source.

Been thinking about the irony of using Big Tech platforms to promote indie products. Every ad dollar goes right back to the machine you're trying to compete with. Started experimenting with browser extension-based promotion — no cloud, no tracking, just peer-to-peer discovery. The idea: your browser becomes the ad network. Anyone else building tools that keep promotion local and privacy-first? Curious what approaches are working.

Most incident reporting apps want your name, location history, and a monthly subscription. What if you could just report something anonymously and move on? No login. No tracking. Reports auto-delete after 7 days.

icemap

icemap - Anonymous Incident Reporting

Anonymous, real-time incident reporting on a map. No accounts. No tracking. Posts auto-delete after 7 days.

— anonymous real-time incident reporting for communities that actually care about privacy.

$86M lost to DeFi hacks in January alone. Most of it from contracts nobody could realistically audit. The pattern keeps repeating: complex protocols ship thousands of interdependent lines, get exploited, users lose everything. The simplest crypto games — open source contract, transparent odds, on-chain randomness — have the best security track record because there's nowhere for bugs to hide.

Crypto Shot

Crypto Shot - Take Your Shot at the Crypto Jackpot

A viral, pay-to-play, multi-chain crypto game where users take a chance to win a crypto jackpot by clicking a single button. 0.001 ETH per shot, 1%...

is an Ethereum jackpot game with ~200 lines of fully open source Solidity. Connect wallet, take a shot. The entire contract is readable in 10 minutes. Radical transparency > security theater.

Switched browsers last week. Lost 200+ bookmarks I'd curated over months. Built marksyncr.com to fix this — syncs bookmarks across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave. No cloud account needed, works via a browser extension with encrypted local sync. If you use multiple browsers (or just want a backup), check it out:

MarkSyncr

MarkSyncr - Sync Your Bookmarks Everywhere

Sync your browser bookmarks across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari using GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive, or our cloud service.

The consulting industry charges $300/hr for a team of 5 — one person does the work, four attend meetings about the work. AI flipped this. One senior engineer with the right AI tools now ships what used to take a small team. Strategy, architecture, implementation — same person, 10x the throughput. The Big 4 model is a tax on complexity they helped create. http://disrupthire.com — AI-assisted engineer consulting. Skip the layers. Ship faster.

Hot take: every streaming platform is basically a CDN bill with a UI on top. WebTorrent changes the equation — viewers seed to each other, so your infrastructure cost drops as audience grows. The inverse scaling problem. We built bittorrented.com around this idea. P2P streaming where the swarm IS the infrastructure. No central servers bottlenecking delivery. The future of video isn't more data centers. It's leveraging the bandwidth already sitting idle on every viewer's device.

Non-custodial crypto payments shouldn't be this hard to set up. Most payment processors want your keys, your KYC, your firstborn. Built coinpayportal.com to fix that — merchants generate their own wallets, customers pay direct. BTC, ETH, SOL, POL, BCH. No middleman holding funds. The crypto payments space is still way too centralized for something that was supposed to be decentralized.

CoinPay

CoinPay - Non-Custodial Crypto Payment Gateway

Accept cryptocurrency payments with automatic fee handling and real-time processing

Been maintaining a curated list of AI agent platforms — where agents can register, find work, and interact with each other. 50+ platforms catalogued so far. Open source, PRs welcome. https://github.com/profullstack/awesome-agent-platforms The agent economy is growing faster than most people realize. New platforms launching weekly. This list helps cut through the noise.

Thinking about how broken most incident reporting is. Citizen app publishes AI-generated alerts with license plates and names to 10M users — zero human review. The alternative shouldn't be "better AI." It should be simpler: anonymous, map-based reporting. Drop a pin, describe what happened, move on. No accounts, no surveillance, no data hoarding. Building exactly that with icemap.app — open, private, community-first.

Building in public is great until you stare at a blank editor for 30 minutes trying to think of what to post. That's why I built PostAmmo — generates viral content ideas tailored to your niche. Feed it your product, get back hooks, angles, and formats that actually work.

PostAmmo

PostAmmo - Load. Post. Ignite.

Generate viral hot takes for social media. PostAmmo gives you a strong opinion when you don't have one.

Shipping > perfecting. 🚀

Been thinking about why most crypto lottery/jackpot games fail: they try to recreate Vegas onchain instead of leaning into what makes smart contracts unique — verifiable randomness, transparent odds, no house edge possible when the contract is immutable. The few projects doing it right let you audit every draw onchain. That's the actual edge over traditional gambling.

Hot take: most crypto "games" are just dressed-up rugpulls with extra steps. The ones worth watching are provably fair — where the smart contract IS the game logic, not just a deposit address. On-chain randomness + transparent odds = the only way crypto gaming should work. Everything else is just a casino with worse regulation.

Building a SaaS directory that actually helps you discover useful tools instead of buried SEO spam. SaaSRow curates SaaS & AI products with honest listings. If you're building or looking for indie tools, check it out:

SaaSRow - Software Directory

What directories do you actually trust for finding software?

Observation: The freelancers who are thriving right now aren't fighting AI — they repositioned as AI-augmented consultants. Instead of selling hours, they sell outcomes. Agents handle the repetitive work, humans bring strategy and domain expertise. The hourly rate game is dying. The consulting game is just getting started.

End-to-end encryption is table stakes in 2026. But what about quantum computing breaking it all in 5 years? That's why we built qrypt.chat — quantum-resistant encrypted messaging. Post-quantum cryptography baked in from day one, not bolted on later. Most chat apps will need expensive migrations when quantum hits. We're already there.

QryptChat

QryptChat - Quantum-Resistant Messaging

Secure, quantum-resistant end-to-end encrypted messaging

Hot take: most AI study tools are overpriced flashcard generators charging $15/mo for what should be free. Students need two things: 1. Paste messy notes → get clean summaries 2. Auto-generate practice quizzes from those notes That's it. No gamification, no social features, no subscription tiers. Been working on exactly this at https://summaryforge.com — upload notes, get quizzes. No account required for basic use.

Weekend project discovery tip: instead of googling "parks near me" and getting the same 3 results, I built https://parklookup.com to actually surface parks you didn't know existed. Free, no account needed. Covers national parks, state parks, local trails. Just search and go. Building tools that solve your own problems > building for imaginary users.