It’s an open-source, configurable personal website that I built to experiment with design, content structure, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to make it easy for others to fork, customize, and use as their own personal site (blog / profile / digital garden).
Source code and setup instructions are linked on the site. Feedback welcome!
When building LaunchSaaS, I faced a critical decision: use Better Auth's built-in payment plugins or build my own payment system.
Better Auth is an excellent authentication library—we use it extensively for auth in LaunchSaaS. But when it came to payments, I chose to build custom. The post shows why that decision paid off, and how you can determine the right choice for your project.
5–10 minutes of rest—no phone, no task, no learning—can be more valuable than squeezing in micro-productivity. Attention is a limited resource; recovery matters.
This is actually my first time hearing the term “lo-fi”, but I really like how simple and clean the site is.
It works great as background music while working
I’m also pretty bad at marketing, so I’m still figuring this out myself.
What I’ve been trying recently is to treat “visibility” as a side effect of building, not a separate activity.
A few things that seem at least directionally helpful for me:
• Sharing my work-in-progress on social platforms — not launches, but the actual process: what I’m building, problems I hit, and how I solved them. This feels more like documenting than promoting.
• Writing about concrete technical or product decisions I made, especially when I had to compare different approaches or tools. Those posts sometimes get picked up organically because they’re useful on their own.
• Analyzing competitors carefully, then selectively submitting my product to directories or communities where similar tools already exist. I avoid mass submission and try to match the audience instead.
None of this has “worked” in a big way yet, but it feels sustainable and doesn’t get me blocked or downvoted. For me, that’s already a win.