You’re Smarter Than You Think — and That’s Exactly Why You’re Stuck

4 Comments / career

How intelligent people trap themselves in overthinking, and how Effort² sets them free. Let me guess. Right now, you have thirty-something tabs open.Three different note apps.Four AI tools running in the background.And a three-year plan you’ve been “refining” for three years. Sounds familiar? You were told your whole life that intelligence was your advantage.Gifted programs. […]

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How I Finally Bypassed Cloudflare Bot Detection — Without Any Hacks

1 Comment / Automation, Coding

A simple step-by-step method using BrightData Browser API to automate sites blocked by Cloudflare. Your automation runs perfectly — until it hits Cloudflare. And suddenly, everything stops. The page doesn’t load. Your bot freezes. And you’re staring at that one sentence: “Verify you are human.” Yeah, that one. Today, I’ll show you how I dealt

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15 Years of Coding, Countless Side Hustles, and One Lesson: You Need a System

2 Comments / Indie Hacker, side hustle

I’ve been a programmer for more than a decade.I’ve written thousands of lines of code. I’ve debugged until sunrise. I’ve worked at big companies with “stable” salaries. And yet, none of that made me financially free. Like many developers, I also chased side hustles. I tried blogging, dabbling in e-commerce, running small websites, even playing

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I Used 4 AI Tools to Test 25 Hosting Providers: 5 Winners, 5 Losers (You Won’t Believe Who Failed)

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Let’s be real — choosing a web host sucks. We’ve all been burned before: Welcome to hosting hell. But hey, this is 2025 — the AI era. So instead of me pretending to know it all, I let four AIs (Deepseek, Cursor, Perplexity, and ChatGPT) crunch the numbers. Deepseek cursor perplexity They looked at Page

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How to Stop Your Slides from Getting Leaked (Without Paying for Expensive Tools)

3 Comments / Coding

The truth is simple: The moment you hit “send” on a deck, proposal, or client report — you lose control. Anyone can forward it. Anyone can screenshot it. And if it leaks? You’ll never know who to blame. For founders, consultants, or anyone sharing sensitive work, this is a nightmare. You want people to read

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The n8n Trick That Saved My Side Hustle Hours (and My Sanity)

2 Comments / Indie Hacker, Technologies

Four months ago, I was drowning. Not in client work. Not in code. But in… noise. Every morning, I’d open my phone and scroll through twenty news articles just to find one worth reading. I’d check YouTube for my favorite creators — only to get lost in unrelated videos. I’d waste hours drafting blog posts

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Indie Hacker, Technologies

Top VPS Servers in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide

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Choosing a Virtual Private Server (VPS) in 2025 means balancing performance, reliability, cost, and scalability. Whether you’re launching a high-traffic web app, running SaaS, hosting game servers, or deploying complex infrastructure, the “best” VPS depends heavily on your use case. Below, you’ll find a detailed guide to the top VPS providers in 2025, what to

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Google’s new CLI tool hits different-It’s the Most Powerful Open-Source Dev Tool

9 Comments / Coding, Programming

Google finally did it. They brought Gemini to the command line — Which means you can now hand full control of your terminal over to AI. It can write code. Create files. Execute commands. And automate pretty much everything else. Now, that used to be the kind of work programmers got paid for. But once

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No Backend, No Delay: Deploy a Lightning-Fast Landing Page with GitHub and Cloudflare

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No servers. No monthly fees. Just your landing page, live in minutes — and optimized for speed. Whether you’re running Google Ads, launching a product, or just testing an idea — you need a landing page. Building landing pages shouldn’t feel like spinning up a full web server. In this guide, I’ll show you exactly how to deploy a blazing-fast

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I Taught My Wife Python From Scratch — Here’s the Path That Actually Worked

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A complete roadmap to become a Python developer — even if you’re starting from scratch. Inspired by my wife’s journey into programming, this guide offers a human-first, beginner-friendly, AI-supported approach to learning Python. Introduction: Why Python? Why Now? Python is no longer just a programming language. It’s a tool for building apps, analyzing data, automating tasks — and shaping the

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I Rebuilt My Java Stack from the Ground Up — Using Only 10 Tools from 2025

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And yeah, the results shocked even me. I’ve written Java for 15 years. From EJBs to Spring Boot, from XML to annotations, I’ve seen it all. And like many long-time Java developers, I’ve built up muscle memory — and mental baggage. I knew what worked. I knew what hurt. And over time… I stopped questioning. But one

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