Open Source

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve tested a lot of social media scheduling tools. Buffer, Hootsuite, Later, Publer — they all do roughly the same thing: you write posts, schedule them across platforms, and pay a monthly fee for the privilege. Then I found AiToEarn, and it broke the pattern completely. It’s free, it’s open-source, and it pays you to post. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. White-label this open-source tool and sell it for $200/month Last week I was paying $12/month for Calendly. Then I found Cal.com — an open-source alternative that does everything Calendly does, plus more, for free. But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is the business model hiding inside this repo. White-label it. Sell it to professionals who’ll never find it themselves. $200/month per client. No coding required. ...

I used CapCut for months. Then I read the privacy policy. Then I stopped. If you’ve been looking for a free video editor that doesn’t spy on you, doesn’t watermark your exports, and doesn’t lock features behind a subscription — I found one. It’s called Kimu. And it has an AI copilot. What is Kimu? Kimu is a free, open-source video editor. Think CapCut, but without ByteDance’s data collection, without the forced watermarks, and without the subscription paywall. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Every year, someone publishes a “top AI trends” list that reads like a Silicon Valley press release. Quantum computing. AGI timelines. The singularity. This isn’t that. These are five things I’m actually seeing change — tools that work today, trends that affect regular people building stuff, and shifts that matter if you’re not backed by a billion-dollar company. ...