Ali Hesari

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Ali Hesari

1mo ago

Meet Default Off - Chrome extension to manage camera and microphone permissions

A Chrome extension that automatically manages camera and microphone permissions for Google Meet, giving you control over your privacy by default. Now with two blocking methods and intelligent state detection for maximum reliability.
Sai Pagidimarri

6mo ago

What I've learned from analyzing 100s of cold emails (as a founder, not a guru)

Hey PH community,

I'm a first-time founder, and my co-founder Krishna and I are hitting a classic wall. We're building a SaaS tool called Zapreach to help other founders with their initial customer outreach.

We love building the product, but we know that marketing is just as important, if not more so. The challenge is balancing our time. Every hour we spend on marketing feels like an hour we're not improving the product, and vice versa.

For the experienced founders here, how did you navigate this in the very early stages? Did you have a set schedule? Did you focus on one over the other?

Trying to validate a business idea: Embeddable Uploader for saas

With everyone vibe-coding and building SaaS products, will you pay for an embeddable uploader for your SaaS or just build it yourself?

The idea:

  • You would be able to connect any backend enterprise storage like: AWS S3, GCS, Azure blob etc. or any other storage

  • You get an embeddable uploader - a web component that you can add to your dashboard.

Whats in this for you?

Thank you for your support and next steps

First of all, thank you so much for your support. It means the world to me! Seriously, I launched this product with no expectations at all. It went way beyond my imagination.

So, I'd love to build this product with founders contributing and giving suggestions. I got some suggestions from people saying:

  1. You could add social login, so, you have "verified" founders

  2. Add temporary locations (for travels)

  3. Let founders post pics/status, so, people would come back to see founders' status

  4. [Add your own idea/suggestion]

Yanjun Lin

7mo ago

How Would You Build a SaaS Blog Today? (Ghost, WordPress, MDX?)

We're planning our new SaaS blog and could use some advice on the tech stack.

What's the best way to build a blog these days for good SEO and an easy workflow for writers?

We're debating between a CMS (like Ghost/WordPress), building it directly into our app, or a simple static site (MDX). How did you build yours? Curious to hear what you'd recommend!

Also, for early-stage SaaS products still in MVP phase, what setup would you recommend to keep things simple but still SEO-friendly? Is it better to start scrappy with MDX or Notion + super.so-style setups, or go straight for a Headless CMS if we plan to scale content quickly?

Ali Hesari

4mo ago

Productivity Track - LifeOS for tech professionals

ProductivityTrack offers free and premium templates built to help you focus, organize, and grow. Trusted by creators & pros. Clean design, real results. Build your ideal workflow—without the burnout.
Ali Hesari

8mo ago

Larasap - Automated social media posting for Laravel (X, Telegram, FB)

A powerful Laravel package that enables automated posting to multiple social media platforms including Telegram, X (Twitter), and Facebook. This package provides a simple and elegant way to manage your social media presence.
Ali Hesari

8mo ago

Ali Hesari - Tools, insights, and products for devs and solopreneurs

✨ AliHesari.com is a free resource hub by senior software engineer Ali Hesari. Explore tools, guides, and real-world insights on programming, freelancing, startups, productivity, trading, immigration, and more, all based on personal experience.

Is Notion Database a Good Fit for CMS?

I'm curious can Notion's database be used effectively as a CMS for websites?

For example, managing content for an e-commerce site or a news/blog platform.

What do you think the future looks like for developers when it comes to AI?

ICYMI: @levelsio shipped a flight simulator game last week. It's pretty fun, it's got some low poly / minecraft-esque graphics, pretty good physics, a turbo boost, and even PvP. The kicker is he built it, at least the version one anyway entirely by prompting @Cursor.

It got me thinking about a question that a ton of people have tried to answer in the past few years; What does the future look like for someone getting into development?