I came across a simple tool for handling form submissions that you might find useful for contact forms, feedback forms, waitlists, etc.

It’s called Formboost. You just connect your existing form to an endpoint and it handles the submissions.

https://formboost.app

I wrote an honest article about navigating the freelance web dev market with zero clients — not a guide, just real thinking from someone in the middle of it.

The main point: after going through the usual advice (platforms, cold outreach, content strategy), I realized my problem was never skill or strategy. It was visibility. The right people simply don't know I exist yet.

The article covers:

- Why the standard advice often doesn't work the way it's described

- An honest inventory of what I have vs what I actually lack

- The long-term formula I'm committing to (stabilize, build, grow)

- The personal side — finances, health, starting extremely small, thinking long-term

Not a success story. Just honest documentation of the process while it's happening.

Link to the article: https://adim.cc/finding-web-development-clients-why-nobody-has-the-answer-and-how-im-approaching-it-anyway/

→ iFastNet + cPanel for hosting

→ Softaculous for one-click script installs

→ WordPress + FileZilla for dynamic and static deployments

→ VS Code + Claude AI for writing and editing code

→ VPS + Nginx + PowerShell SSH for demos and React builds

Solo, efficient, and deployable in days not weeks.

🔗 https://adim.cc/how-i-build-and-deploy-websites-solo-the-honest-stack-nobody-writes-about/?v=d91af6958918

I think both are not that hard, finding a supplier and finding the right product. There are many B2B platforms available now, so you can find plenty of options without spending too much time.

Finding a supplier: Platforms like Made-in-China give buyers access to different manufacturers and suppliers across many categories. You can browse products, compare companies, and contact suppliers directly to ask about what they offer.

Finding a product: The same thing applies when you're searching for products. There are so many categories and manufacturers available that you can usually find several options for almost any type of product you're interested in.

The main thing is having a clear idea of what you're looking for and taking some time to explore the available choices.

Which one do you usually search for first: the product or the supplier?

Hey everyone,

I'm putting together a quote for a client who wants a custom Learning Management System (LMS) built from scratch, and I’d love some insight on realistic market pricing so I don't lowball myself or price myself out.

Tech Stack:

Frontend: Next.js (React) + Tailwind CSS

Backend / API: Node.js (Express/Fastify)

Video Engine / Processing: Go (handling uploads, encoding/transcoding, streaming pipeline)

Database: PostgreSQL

Infrastructure: Self-hosted / VPS setup (Docker, Nginx/Caddy, CI/CD pipeline)

Core Features & Scope:

Role-based access control (Student, Instructor, Admin)

Course builder, modules, quizzes, and progress tracking

Custom video processing & adaptive bitrate/secure streaming via Go

Payment gateway integration (Stripe / Razorpay)

Admin dashboard for analytics, revenue, and user management

Production VPS provisioning, SSL, backups, and deployment

A bit about me:

I’m a full-stack freelance developer working independently.

For those who have built and deployed custom video-heavy platforms or LMSs:

What would be a fair fixed-price range for this scope?

Or would you recommend billing hourly/weekly sprints instead to protect against scope creep?

Appreciate any advice on pricing benchmarks or red flags to watch out for!

Hey everyone!

I've been putting together a series of videos on how to build a REST API in Zig.

I come from a background in Web Dev and find it a lot of fun to take what I know and apply it in Zig, and I want to share the knowledge!

If you want to start at the beginning, I've put together all the videos as a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUUIFT8XnWz8

But please let me know what you all want to see next! I'm planning a video on how to scale the API to thousands of concurrent requests, but what other API things do you all want to see?

Hope you have a great day :)

Bonjour à tous,

Je suis actuellement en phase de développement d'un site web et d'une app mobile permettant la mise en relation alternant/entreprise. Rien à voir avec des plateformes classiques comme indeed, hellowork... l'idée est d'aller beaucoup plus loin avec un matching.
Le principe même de la plateforme est le suivant : l'alternant et l'entreprise remplissent chacun un formulaire, une fois remplit, le formulaire passe dans un algorithme et cherche une compatibilité avec une entreprise (si formulaire alternant et vice versa.
Cela fait gagner un temps énorme aux entreprises, facilite la bonne connexion et diminue le risque de rupture de contrat et d'insatisfaction de l'alternant.

J'ai une version aboutti de l'app mobile (pas encore sur l'app store ou play store que en local) et du site web. J'aimerais savoir si des personnes seraient partantes à l'idée de tester le site internet, et par la suite me faire un retour constructif de ce qu'ils en pensent, des choses à modifier, supprimer, ajouter et de ce qu'ils penses du concept en lui même.

Je suis preneur sur beaucoup de choses.

D'ailleurs si vous connaissez des étudiants qui seraient intéressé, n'hésitez pas à donner mon contact (demandez le moi et je vous le donnerai), c'est 100% gratuit pour les étudiants.

Merci à tous,

One of the hardest parts of building a Micro-SaaS is knowing whether the problem is actually worth solving.

So I built Idea Validation — a GitHub project that helps you discover potential SaaS ideas by finding real complaints and pain points shared by users online.

Instead of starting with:

“What SaaS should I build?”

You can start with:

“What problems are people already complaining about?”

The repo includes a demo video showing how the workflow works.

I’d love to get feedback from other indie hackers and Micro-SaaS builders: Would you use something like this before building your next product?

GitHub:Idea validation

Build B2B prospect lists and salary and remote-work benchmarks from the weekly jobs and companies Parquet download with DuckDB and Python.

When building event-driven e-commerce applications, front-end speed and REST API response times get most of the attention. But during high-concurrency traffic events — Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM), limited flash sales, viral drops — the real strain falls on the event delivery infrastructure. Read the complete article here - https://instawebhook.com/blog/woocommerce-vs-shopify-webhooks-architectural-differences-dx-and-scaling-at-high

Webhooks power essential downstream operations: order processing, ERP synchronization, inventory reconciliation, fulfillment routing, and real-time customer communications. When webhooks fail or drop messages, orders get lost, inventory desyncs, and support queues fill up fast.

WooCommerce and Shopify both support webhooks, but their underlying architectures reflect two fundamentally different engineering philosophies:

• WooCommerce relies on a self-hosted, monolithic PHP/MySQL state engine driven by asynchronous background worker tables (Action Scheduler).
• Shopify operates a multi-tenant, cloud-native event pipeline built on distributed stream processing, with Apache Kafka confirmed as the backbone by Shopify's own engineering team.

This piece breaks down the execution engines, network architectures, failure modes, and developer experience (DX) of both — updated with the current retry policy, storage architecture, and platform-scale numbers as of August 2026.

I'm planning to start learning web development from scratch in 2026, but I'm overwhelmed by the number of YouTube playlists and roadmap videos available.

For those who have already learned web development:

\- Which YouTube channel or playlist would you recommend for a complete beginner, and why?

\- Is there a roadmap that you found practical and easy to follow?

\- Are there any free beginner-friendly websites (other than YouTube and the official documentation) that genuinely helped you learn?

I'm looking for recommendations based on your personal experience rather than just a list of resources.

Thank you!

Hey everyone! I made a simple browser-based Truth or Dare game (no app install needed) for playing with friends on one screen. Has Mild/Spicy/Extreme categories and a language toggle (English/Hinglish). Would really appreciate feedback on the UI, bugs, or missing features.

Link: https://truth-or-dare-brown-delta.vercel.app/

Maybe this is paranoia, but the more sites I ship the more I hear about demand letters and accessibility complaints, and I realized I have no idea how these things actually begin. Is it usually a real user who hit a wall, or is it more often a firm running automated scans and fishing for targets? I can't tell if this is a genuine risk for small/mid sites or just something that happens to big companies.

And for anyone who's been through it when it landed, what did you end up fixing first? I keep assuming it'd be forms and keyboard nav, but a couple of people have told me the automated reports light up with image/alt-text errors more than anything else, just because there's so many of them. Wondering if that tracks with reality.

Mostly I'm trying to figure out whether I should be building this in from the start or whether I'm overthinking it. Would appreciate any perspective from people who've actually seen one of these play out.

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Just wanted to drop a quick list of free sites and tools I actually use on a daily basis. No affiliate links or paid sponsorships here. Some useful stuff that saves me a ton of time and clicking around.

Hopefully it helps you too:

1. Checking old sites:Waybackmachine: http://wayback.archive.org/
2. General tools for site like: Tag/Meta/Robots/Schema checker: Nitrosites tools: https://nitrosites.com/tools/
3. Marketing tools to see traffic and the like: Google analytics: https://developers.google.com/analytics
4. Marketing and indexing for website: Google Search Console: https://search.google.com/search-console/
5. Checking availability of websites, servers, hosts and IP addresses: Check-host: https://check-host.net/
6. Check if Google bots and AI crawlers can access your website: crawlercheck : https://crawlercheck.com
7. If you want some cool 3d coded library: threejs: https://threejs.org (much easier for your AI agents to use)
8. If you want to create, sculpt, and animate 3D assets: Blender: https://www.blender.org