Your side project doesn't need a 10-person security team. It needs a checklist. 🛡️
90% of indie hacks happen because of:
❌ Missing auth checks
❌ Leaked .env files
❌ No rate limiting
Here is the exact checklist I use before deploy:
Compliance data is ridiculously expensive.
Enterprise vendors charge $5k–$50k/year just to screen names against sanctions lists.
But the raw data? It's 100% public.
Here’s how I built a pipeline processing 72,000+ records on a $5/mo budget 🧵👇
I woke up to a dead Cloudflare D1 database.
Error: D1 API error 7500 - daily row write limit exceeded.
My sanctions app was in read-only mode. I had to rebuild my entire ingestion pipeline. Here's how I fixed it 👇
Day 1 of building my digital storefront jsonexlab. 🚀
30 Notion templates. 99 micro-PDFs. Payment system. Email capture.
All built with AI, zero budget, and no coding.
Here is what I learned so far 🧵
In 3 years, AI won't replace developers.
It will replace developers who think their job is writing code.
The rest of us will finally have time to think.
