Look, I'll be honest: I didn't think I'd care about a photo management API. Then I realized my family has 50,000 photos scattered across devices, and Google's AI is training on every single one of them. Immich changed that. It'
Look, I'm going to be real with you: most scheduling tools treat their API like an afterthought. A few endpoints here, some webhooks there, and you're left duct-taping everything together. Cal.com is different. Their API is the product. Everything you can do in the UI,
We Calculated How Much Slack Actually Costs—Then Found Two Alternatives That Save Teams $15,000/Year Your CFO just sent that email again. "Can we talk about our software costs?" You know what's coming. Slack is eating 15% of your SaaS budget, and it'
Zulip API Integration: Build Custom Bots and Automate Team Notifications Here's the thing about team chat: the real power isn't in the messages themselves—it's in what you can automate around them. CI/CD pipeline failed? Your team should know instantly. New customer signed
Why Your Team Should Ditch Trello for a Self-Hosted Kanban Board You know that moment when your entire marketing team is staring at a blank screen because Trello is down? Or when finance asks why you're paying $12.50 per user per month for what's essentially
The ChatGPT interface has become the standard for how we interact with AI. That clean chat bubble layout, the markdown rendering, the ability to switch models mid-conversation—we all expect it now. Here's what's interesting: that interface is no longer proprietary. A wave of open-source projects
Look, I'm going to be real with you: authentication is the part of building apps that nobody wants to deal with. You'd rather be shipping features, not debugging why OAuth tokens expire at 3 AM. That's exactly why Supabase Auth exists. It handles the
Your design tool bill just went up. Again. If you're running a small agency, a startup, or even a marketing team that dabbles in UI mockups, you've probably noticed that Figma's pricing keeps climbing. In 2025, teams are facing 40% higher costs year-over-year. For
Look, I'm going to be real with you: if you're still using Prometheus for everything, you're probably overcomplicating your life. Don't get me wrong—Prometheus is fantastic for certain workloads. But when you need to store millions of metrics per second with
Have you ever visited an online store, typed something in the search bar, and waited... and waited... only to get results that didn't match what you were looking for? You probably left. Most people do. Here's the thing: users expect Google-speed search everywhere they go. When
Let me paint a picture you probably recognize: customer emails scattered across three different inboxes, support requests buried in social media DMs, and that one urgent issue from last Tuesday that somehow slipped through the cracks. Sound familiar? If you're running a small business and still managing customer
Your chatbot has amnesia. Every time a user starts a new session, your AI assistant forgets everything—their name, preferences, previous conversations, all of it. Gone. You're essentially building a goldfish with a PhD. This isn't a minor inconvenience. It's why your customer support
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Why Private AI Is the Biggest Self-Hosting Trend of 2025 Something interesting happened this year. While everyone was obsessing over ChatGPT subscriptions and Claude API bills, a quiet revolution was brewing in home offices and server rooms around the world. People started running their own AI. Not toy projects. Not
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Something shifted in 2024. I started noticing it in Reddit threads, then in Hacker News discussions, and eventually in conversations with CTOs and IT managers: people are tired of SaaS. Not all SaaS, mind you. But there's a growing frustration with the subscription treadmill, the endless price hikes,
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N8N Sub-Workflows: Build Reusable Automation Components You're building N8N automations and copying the same 15-node sequence across every workflow. Authentication logic here, error handling there, notification patterns everywhere. By workflow #10, you've got technical debt scattered across dozens of duplicated nodes. One bug means updating 50
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Look, I'm going to be real with you. If you're not monitoring your infrastructure, you're basically flying blind. And when something breaks at 3am (it will), you'll wish you had set this up months ago. The good news? Getting production-grade monitoring running
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Your database is slow. Queries that took milliseconds last month now take seconds. Users are complaining. Your monitoring dashboard shows query times creeping up, connection pools maxing out, and CPU spiking during peak hours. You've thrown more RAM at it, upgraded the server—nothing helps. PostgreSQL can handle
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You've probably been there. A critical bug ships to production at 3am. The on-call engineer traces it back to a merge request that went straight to main—no review, no second pair of eyes, just one developer hitting "Merge" and hoping for the best. That'
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I Ditched Google Workspace and Saved My Company $9,000 (Here's How) Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat this: I spent three years paying Google $300/month for Workspace before I finally did the math. That's $10,800 down the drain for a 25-person
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OpenWebUI Custom Prompts: Create Reusable Templates for Common Tasks You've just finished your tenth code review of the day, and you're typing the same instructions into your AI assistant again: "Review this code for security vulnerabilities, check for best practices, suggest performance improvements..." The
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Baserow: Self-Hosted Airtable Alternative with No Vendor Lock-In The Problem: Airtable's Pricing Keeps Climbing Your Airtable bill just jumped from $20/user/month to $45/user/month for Pro, and your team of 15 is now costing you $8,100 annually—just to organize data in spreadsheets. Every
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Chatwoot: Self-Hosted Customer Support That Replaces Intercom The Problem: Customer Support Tools Are Bleeding Your Budget Your Intercom bill just hit $799/month, and you're not even at full capacity yet. Every new support agent adds $50-100/month, every additional feature tier costs more, and you're
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N8N: Automate Lead Capture and CRM Sync in Real-Time The Problem: Lost Leads Cost You Revenue Picture this: It's 2 AM, and a hot lead just filled out your website form. By the time your sales team checks their emails at 9 AM, that prospect has already moved
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Complete technical guide to implementing 10 production-ready n8n workflows. Includes code examples, node configurations, and best practices for automation success.