Most devs I talk to are quietly overpaying AWS or GCP. Not by a little but by a lot.

We've been building Huddle01 Cloud for a while now and honestly, the pricing difference is wild. Same bare-metal performance, global edge infrastructure with sub-100ms latency, no egress fees, no hidden markups.

What's everyone paying for cloud compute right now? Curious if others have found good alternatives.

Hi founders, I'm Muhammad Hassaan.

I built Simple Expo Kit to solve one pain point we all hit: the project setup wall. Every new idea means days lost to Firebase config, Supabase migrations, notifications, auth, dark mode scaffolding, before you write a single line of app logic.
So I patched all that setup into one kit.

Here's what's inside:

• Firebase + Supabase paired for serverless, cost-optimized development.

• NativeWind (Tailwind for mobile) so you design your own unique experience with AI.

• RLS, push notifications, lightweight SWR caching, and a soft admin layer; all wired.

There s a point where products stop being fully understandable.

Too many features
Too many dependencies
Too much history

And decisions start getting made with partial context.

For us, it started from something frustrating: creating content felt very annoying and time-consuming. We tried the classic way: scripting, memorizing, filming, editing. But none of it felt authentic. And honestly, it was eating time we needed to focus on other things.

At the same time, we kept reading the same advice everywhere:
"founders should build in public and create content consistently". Easy to say but harder to do in reality. So instead of forcing ourselves to create content from scratch, we tried something simple: recording our own calls and using those moments as content.

1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).

Here's an MCP server that lets you talk to Claude Code from anywhere you can negotiate a WebRTC connection (or make a phone call):

https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pi...

Here's an MCP server that lets you talk to Claude Code from anywhere you can negotiate a WebRTC connection (or make a phone call):

https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pi...