First post in 4 years I’ve been busy bootstrapping PromptBase to 450k+ users But I was burning $9,400/mo in opaque Stripe fees for seller payouts So today I’m launching Zoneless: an open-source clone of Stripe Connect using USDC Identical API, except payouts cost $0.002 I’ve been dogfooding it on PromptBase for 3 months: - 2,200+ sellers onboarded - 1,400+ payouts completed - $9.4k/mo in Stripe fees → ~$5/mo - 73% of sellers chose Zoneless over Stripe

A few nights ago I instructed an AI agent to ship one secret feature to PromptBase at 4am and deploy it whilst I was asleep - it just had to benefit the site in some way. I wanted to see what this felt like - which sounds really weird - I know. It decided to ship a feature that alerts users before their account is about to get timed out from too many declined submissions - a pretty useful idea based on a lot of emails from support. It went well, and worked! - waking up and seeing it felt very cool. It was a bit like the AI equivalent of one of those trust experiments where you fall back and someone has to catch you (thankfully I was caught)

I completely missed the OpenClaw hype - I actually thought it looked kind of dumb at the time. But the past week or so I've been quite enjoying using Grok Bot - which is very similar (and like OpenAI dots I guess). I have a support bot that uses my Gmail to answer emails, an engineer bot that writes code, and a security bot that monitors my Cloudflare and server logs for suspicious things. I’m super intrigued by this as a solo founder/developer as a way to run a "big" looking company from the outside as just one person.

Woke up to 100+ stars on the repo, thank you for the support! ⭐️ I've never built open-source before, so this is all pretty new Back to building now 🫡

Check it out here 👇 Website + docs: zoneless.com Github: github.com/zonelessdev/zonel…

I'm currently driving 3,000km across India in a rickshaw designed by a DALL•E prompt

My next tiny project got featured in TechCrunch! 🤯 This is going to be one crazy project write up

First sale on my new tiny project!🎉

New Post 🎉 "I Spent 2 years Launching Tiny Projects" 💡 Updates on all my projects 🎢 The pros and cons of micro-SaaS 🔮 Biggest lessons after 2 years This was so fun to write. Time flies! tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_spe…

🛍 I bought back One Item Store, my original tiny project! 💸 Why I bought it back, how much I paid, and what's next: daily.tinyprojects.dev/119

This is awesome. Thank you @ProductHunt ! ❣️🐱