Journeys
The full story behind every product, every pivot, every lesson learned. No highlight reels, just honest accounts of what it takes to build something from nothing.
Mihai
Building OCR tools for developers
Why I Built a Specialized OCR Engine in the Age of ChatGPT
How OCRskill beats general LLMs on the only two numbers that matter: price per call and error rate
Camil
Removes any sound you can describe from your videos
SoundScrub: From a Terminal Script to a Product
How a tool for cleaning up holiday footage became a focused app that beats the big editors at one job
Valentin Bora
Makes sure your email lands in the inbox
doesmyemail.work: A Free Tool as the Top of the Funnel
How a thirty-second email diagnosis becomes a lead magnet, and the same move grows a psychology app
Doru
Building scheduling software for dental clinics
Building Dentor in the Most Regulated Data Class There Is
How a dental booking platform turned a GDPR constraint into a moat, and learned to sell in person
Petru
SEO veteran at Kink.com
Oria: Shipping Photorealistic 3D Property Tours With a Big-Domain SEO Mindset
How a Kink.com SEO veteran is launching a Gaussian Splatting product on a zero-authority domain
Ionut F.
Builds audio plugins as a one-person studio
Laura: A One-Person Studio Selling a Synth Forever
Why a niche audio plugin is a textbook solo product, and a perpetual license is a promise subscriptions cannot make
Mircea
From agency burnout to $4k MRR
Renzi: Selling Romanian Landlords Relief From the Tax Office
How a property-management SaaS leads with the one feature that sells and prices against a fine, not a competitor
Raul
Software engineer turned curator and community builder
epolita.ro: Bolting a Product Onto Traffic That Already Existed
How a four-year-old parked domain became an insurance funnel, and what the news taught me about SEO
Fineas Silaghi
Security researcher and CTF player running AISafe Labs
Selling Security Where SaaS Cannot Follow
Why AISafe ships into corporate networks and air-gapped deployments, and what that choice does to the company
Flavius D.
Builds systems that make hiring decisions better
Pace: Building the Tool That Makes the Right Interview the Easy One
Why structured interviews win in the research and lose in practice, and how Pace closes the gap
Mile Rosu
Dad of one, co-founder of three
Building Church Software Before I Wrote a Line of Code
Why I picked a slow, offline, unglamorous niche, and why distribution is the part I am solving first
Zoltan Szogyenyi
Chief builder at Bergside, creator of Flowbite
From a Rejected ThemeForest Template to 70k a Month
How Flowbite grew an open-source component library into a bootstrapped, two-person business
Bogdan
Dabbler
Event Newsletter: A Side Project Built in the Margins
Why I scoped a personalized weekly local-events digest small enough to run alongside two kids and a consulting career
Cristian
WordPress product builder at Cozmoslabs
A Decade of WordPress Plugins, Built One Slow Year at a Time
Why Cozmoslabs says no to most ideas, lives on yearly renewals, and treats patience as a strategy
Mircea
From agency burnout to $4k MRR
The $5 Fax: How a Weekend Project Became a Micro-SaaS
Why I built the simplest possible fax service and let SEO do the selling
Vlad
Backend engineer turned indie hacker
Building sisif.ai: an AI Video API
How I went from 0 customers to growing MRR by abandoning traditional marketing
Raul
Software engineer turned curator and community builder
Building the Anti-Hustle Job Board: $19/year for Calm Companies
How getting fired for caring about culture led to a curated community of sustainable workplaces