I m in the final stages of building ForgeRank. It s a privacy-first Chrome/Brave extension that passively detects backlinks and analyzes SEO content in real time while you browse.
It s built for solo makers who can t afford tools like Ahrefs but still care about their SEO footprint.
No logins. No API keys. No bloated dashboards. Just instant, local insights.
Im going to be honest here - I had a little breakdown a while ago after I happily and very excitedly watched a friend explain his job to me. He is a AI only designer for a large agency. After the call I couldnt believe what I had seen... it was so far beyond my experiences with Midjourney and Chatgpt, then after about 24/48 hours my brain started going nuts and the reality set in with a basic message: your job has NO future. So the choices were (once my 48 hour freakout was done): 1. get with it (and learn and see where it takes you) 2. be the person that builds it 3. fall over and die (accepting my fate) 4. look for a job AI cant replace So I made my choice, I would do a combination of 1,2 and 4 and thus this morning at 6am, my alarm went off, made a coffee and started spending an hour learning Javascript and soon JSON to facilitate parts of 1 and 2. I self hosted N8N and Deepseek as well ready for learning and researched a few options for #4.
So wish me luck, ive tried coding before and never had any interest but hopefully this time it will be different as I have moved to a more process driven methodology in my life over the past decade. (bit of a plug, but follow me on twitter or bluesky for more titbits of useless information) #buildinginpublic
I am a software engineer (full stack web dev) by profession with almost 3 years of experience, having electrical engineering degree. I am passionate about building projects that actually make impact and help others.
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We were ready to launch this week, but we decided to delay the official launch by seven days. We didn't hit a wall; we want Aera Vibe to feel right from day one. This is especially true on mobile devices.
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