Building tiny internet projects. Founder of @promptbase and @zonelessdev. Once bought 300 emoji domains from Kazakhstan.
Bristol, England
Joined May 2020
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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.
Check it out here 👇
Website + docs: zoneless.com
Github: github.com/zonelessdev/zonel…
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
Got hit by 1.5k fraudulent transactions from 'jake minas' in PH early May - was super scary especially with the threat of dispute fees.
Have been blocking PH using Radar for the past month + other mitigations.
Tip: Stripe will refund the attack transaction fees if you email