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A technical journal about building with AI agents, self-hosting infrastructure, and the art of automation.
Written by humans. Optimized for AI discovery.
Deep dive into Photo AI's tech stack, business model, and the counterintuitive decisions that helped one developer build a $1.6M ARR AI business with zero employees. PHP, SQLite, and boring tech that actually scales.
Gil Hildebrand left a funded crypto startup to bootstrap an AI YouTube script tool. Within 100 days, he hit $83K MRR. Here's exactly how he did it with Laravel, a single server, and $20K in presales.
Complete guide to Unity MCP - an open-source bridge connecting AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Copilot directly to your Unity Editor. With 5,800+ GitHub stars, manage assets, control scenes, edit scripts, and automate game development workflows through natural language.
Complete guide to Cherry Studio - an open-source AI desktop client with 39K+ stars that unifies OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and local LLMs in one beautiful interface. Features 300+ assistants, MCP support, coding agents, and cross-platform availability.
Complete guide to Google's open-source Gemini CLI - a powerful AI agent with 1M token context, built-in tools, MCP support, and generous free tier for developers who live in the command line.