Guides for people who ship
Practical writing for developers picking new tools and founders getting ready to launch one.
Auth0 alternatives (2026): 7 options compared
The best Auth0 alternatives by use case: Clerk, Supabase Auth, Firebase, Better Auth, WorkOS, Keycloak and Stytch, with free tiers checked in October 2026.
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For developers7 min readHeroku alternatives (2026): 6 platforms compared
The best Heroku alternatives by what you need: Render, Railway, Fly.io, DigitalOcean App Platform, Coolify and Kedge, with free tiers and prices checked in October 2026.
For founders7 min readProduct Hunt alternatives for developers (2026)
Product Hunt is broad. If you are launching a developer tool, these alternatives reach developers directly: DevHunt, Show HN, Peerlist, Uneed and more.
For developers7 min readMoving off Supabase: 7 options and what each move costs
Planning to migrate from Supabase? What moving to Firebase, Appwrite, PocketBase, Nhost, Convex, Neon or Turso involves, with free tiers checked in October 2026.
For founders7 min readBetaList alternatives for launching a developer tool
Where to launch instead of, or as well as, BetaList: DevHunt, Uneed, Peerlist, Product Hunt and Hacker News, compared on cost, wait, audience and links.
For developers5 min readBest AI coding tools in 2026: editors, agents, terminals
Cursor, Zed, Warp, Claude Code, Copilot and the rest, sorted by what they actually change about your day, with the questions to ask before you pay for one.
For founders4 min readSwitching from Linear: how to pick your next tracker
Jira, GitHub Projects, Plane, Shortcut, Huly and Notion compared with Linear on the things that make a team switch: speed, workflow rules, self-hosting and price.
For developers4 min readMoving off Vercel: Railway, Fly.io, Cloudflare or a VPS
What each Vercel alternative is actually good at, where the bill comes from, and how to pick between a platform, a container host and a VPS you run yourself.
For developers5 min readOpen source alternatives to developer SaaS (2026)
PostHog, Plausible, Supabase, Dub, Payload and Excalidraw as replacements for Amplitude, GA, Firebase, Bitly and Contentful, with what self-hosting costs.
For developers5 min readPicking a database for a new app: Postgres or SQLite
Four answers to where your data lives, compared on query model, where it runs, what happens at zero traffic and how hard it is to leave.
For developers4 min readHow to find new developer tools before everyone else
Where new developer tools surface first, how to tell a real project from a landing page, and a twenty-minute weekly routine that beats the feed.
For founders9 min readHow to validate a developer tool idea
Which early signals are worth trusting, which ones reliably lie, the cheap tests that separate them, and how long to spend before building.
For founders9 min readHow to price a developer tool at launch
Free tiers, open source plus paid, when to start charging, and how to raise prices later without burning the users who signed up first.
For developers6 min readHow to spot rising open source projects
A repeatable routine for finding promising new GitHub projects early, telling real momentum from hype, and deciding which ones deserve your attention.
For developers5 min readAre GitHub stars a good signal?
Stars are the most visible number on GitHub and one of the easiest to misread. Here is how to interpret them, and which signals to check alongside them.
For founders6 min readWaitlist page essentials for developer tools
What a pre-launch waitlist page needs to convert developers: a sharp headline, a real product shot, a one field form, and a reason to come back.
For founders7 min readHow to find beta testers for a SaaS or developer tool
Where to find your first beta testers for free, how to onboard them so they actually use the product, and how to turn their feedback into a better launch.
For founders5 min readWaitlist or open beta: how to choose
A waitlist builds anticipation and control. An open beta builds usage and feedback. Here is how to decide which fits your product and stage.
For developers8 min readHow to write a README that converts
Your README is the landing page most people actually see. What belongs above the fold, what quietly destroys trust, and what to delete.
For founders8 min readLaunch sequence for a dev tool: HN, Product Hunt, Reddit
The order to launch a developer tool in: Hacker News, Product Hunt, DevHunt, Reddit and your own list, what each audience rewards and how to space them out.
For founders9 min readHow to launch on Hacker News: Show HN tips that work
Show HN tips from posts that worked: what qualifies, the title format, the best time to post, the first comment, and handling the traffic after.
For developers6 min readHow to evaluate upcoming AI developer tools
A practical checklist for judging AI dev tools that are still in teaser or private beta, so you only spend time on the ones worth adopting.
For founders5 min readHow to write a teaser that fills your waitlist
Developers skip hype. Here is how to plan, record, and publish a short teaser that shows your tool working and turns views into waitlist signups.
For founders7 min readThe pre-launch playbook for developer tools
A week by week plan for the eight weeks before you launch a developer tool, from building in public to launch day.
For developers6 min readAdopting a beta UI library in Next.js
Beta component libraries can save weeks of work or cost you a painful migration. Check these seven things before you add one to a Next.js project.
For founders5 min readThe open source launch checklist
Before you share your open source project, make sure these files, docs, and settings are in place so first time visitors become users and contributors.
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