Genglin

Hey, I'm a software engineer turned indie hacker and a dad of two.

By day I build features for other people's products. By night (and weekends), I'm carving out time to build my own.

I used to spend more time picking the "perfect" stack than actually shipping. These days I keep it simple: Cloudflare + Nuxt.js + TypeScript and that's pretty much it. Less decision fatigue, more done.

My current project is BulkPicTools a bulk image toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. Compress, convert, crop, and chain tools together, all locally. No uploads, no servers, no nonsense.

AI has undoubtedly made our work easier and faster.

An article that would have taken me several days before (defining the topic, doing research, interviewing experts for unique insights, validating data, and writing the final piece) can now be turned into a solid article in under two hours. (in my case, when I publish a weekly newsletter)

A lot of people try to raise funding before they even begin.

And then sometimes I read those zero to hero stories. (Maybe they re a bit "polished" by the media to have publicity.)

In any case, building products has become much easier from a technical perspective, which also makes it cheaper especially for software startups.