u/System_Independent

I love that there's a new option launching every day, even if its vibe coded. If you read through the posts where people share their newly created app/tool, you will realize that often none of the existing tools/apps directly solve the problem that OP is solving. If there are existing tools out there, sometimes its difficult to setup, not maintained, or too pricy. Anyways, if the tool ends up solving the problem just for the OP, i feel its still worth building it.

Regarding vibe coding, its definitely 10-100x easier to build anything with AI, but coming up with an end product still takes decent amount of effort.

On a side note, i started building my own markdown editor in 2023, as i am a tech blogger, and none of the existing apps at that time served my needs. Its been 3 years, and i still actively keep improving it. Over time the app has gotten got ~50k visitors, ~9k sign ups for the web app, 100s of downloads for the desktop app and ~7k downloads for browser and VS code extensions. So there's definitely appetite for new solutions as long as it solves an actual problem.

I saw some conversations on X that were debating how most markdown editors/viewers don't support RTL layout as well as LTR.

Curious what do folks use here?

I’m curious how other people working on side projects handle this.

For my small vibe-coded apps, I usually use GitHub Issues as the place to track todos/bugs/features. The annoying part is that every time I want to add a quick task, I have to go to the right repo, open Issues, create a new issue, etc.

It feels like there should be a much simpler flow:

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I don’t necessarily want an agent to start working on every task immediately. Sometimes I just want to quickly capture the idea/bug/todo and decide later whether it’s worth prioritizing or giving to an agent.

So I don’t need anything fancy. Just a simple quick-capture inbox for dev tasks that can send items to GitHub Issues, Linear, etc.

Does something like this already exist? How are you all handling task capture across multiple side projects?

I wonder what it actually means for SEO? Any suggestions from folks who better understand SEO

I have 900+ followers on Medium and i usually write about technical topics. At its peak in 2022 i was earning decently from Medium and clocking ~30k views/pm, but then the decline started. So i stopped writing on Medium, but a couple of weeks ago i decided to give it another try.

I wrote about Garry Tan's GStack and the article has been doing much better than i expected.

• ~700 views, 250+ reads
• $60+ in a week
• ~50 daily views from Google every day.

I am feeling motivated to write more, but am unsure if this article just got lucky, or is Medium still a good place to write and earn some passive money.