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Every build log, review, and comparison on the site — newest first. Real projects, real numbers, no hype.

Head-to-Head

Thunderbit vs Firecrawl: Do You Still Need a Separate Scraper?

A no-code scraper in your browser against an API built for agents. I'm an affiliate for both, which is exactly why this is written straight: real pricing, the credit-unit trap that makes one 50x dearer on the same page, and when your coding agent replaces both.

September 19, 2026·12 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

Generated WordPress: Ownership and Speed, or the Worst of Both?

10Web builds a WordPress site from a prompt and hosts it on Google Cloud. The real plan prices and visit caps, the 90+ PageSpeed claim and its documented exceptions, what you can genuinely export, and a verdict split three ways.

September 19, 2026·12 min read·Read →
Comparison

AI Presentation Generators in 2026: Generated Is Easy, Controlled Is Hard

PopAi, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Canva, Copilot, Gemini in Slides, or just asking a chatbot. Real prices for each, the one whose pricing page shows no dollar amounts at all, and why the bundle you already pay for usually wins.

September 19, 2026·13 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

Sintra Sells AI Employees. I Already Have a Team of Scripts.

Twelve named assistants instead of a tool you operate. The real prices, what the 250 credits actually buy across three contradictory sources, and the finding that decides it: they draft, they don't execute.

September 19, 2026·11 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

getimg.ai vs a Raw API: What Bulk Image Generation Really Costs

I generated 402 images on Replicate for one book and paid $1.84. An honest pricing read on getimg.ai against a benchmark I actually own: the plan tiers, the separate API rates, the commercial licence, and who each option really fits.

September 18, 2026·11 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

Emergent, the $1.5B App Builder — and the Credit Meter Running Behind It

One prompt becomes a full-stack React, FastAPI and MongoDB app. The verified funding ladder, the real credit math, a 2.9/5 Trustpilot record across 614 reviews, and where agentic app builders break down on the last 20%.

September 18, 2026·11 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

CREAO and the Bet That Chat Should End in Finished Work

Agents that build reusable apps, connect 30+ tools and run on a schedule. The real pricing ladder, the $25M raised, the homepage numbers I couldn't verify, and where it sits next to Zapier, Make, n8n and Manus.

September 18, 2026·11 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

GLM from Z.ai and the Quiet Ceiling of API Cost

GLM-5.3 lists at a fraction of Claude Opus 5 per million tokens. A verified price comparison, what the benchmarks do and don't say, latency I measured from Saudi Arabia, and the data-residency question answered straight.

September 18, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

PopAi AI Sheets and the Spreadsheet Tax

Spreadsheet work is the unglamorous tax on running a small business. What an AI spreadsheet actually adds over pasting a CSV into a chatbot, the pricing, and the readers for whom the free option is genuinely enough.

September 18, 2026·10 min read·Read →
Build with AI

I generated 387 images with Replicate for one book. Here is the bill and the failure rate

402 generations, $1.84, and a 3.5% reject rate — with the real numbers from the manifest. Including the estimate I got wrong by 6x, and why 12 of my 13 rejects were hands.

September 13, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Tool Review

MagicLight, Honestly: The First AI Tool That Finishes a Whole Story

Most AI video tools hand you a 5-second clip and leave the editing to you. MagicLight turns a script into a finished story video — consistent characters, real length, and Sora, Veo and Kling in one plan. What it nails, where it goes generic, and the one habit that makes or breaks the result.

August 24, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Tool Review

I Told You to Skip Firecrawl. Its Claude Connector Changed Half My Answer

A follow-up to my honest Firecrawl review. The official Claude connector shipped — a keyless MCP server you add in one line — and it reframes the whole question from a paid scraping rig into a free search upgrade. The real mechanism, the free-tier math (1,000 credits, no rollover), and the split verdict.

August 23, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Build with AI

My Claude Kept Forgetting Me — So I Gave It a Memory, and Then a Diet

A persistent memory for Claude Code built from three plain text files — and the 180KB mistake that taught me the three context-engineering rules that matter: a hard cap, hot/cold separation, and judgment-based instructions. Real numbers throughout.

August 21, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

Why Every AI-Built Site Looks the Same — and the Prompt Market Selling the Fix

Your AI coder can build a five-figure-looking site; it just won't unless you can describe one. On VividSites (formerly uiprompts), the cinematic prompt market, what you're actually paying for, and the free tier worth testing first.

August 20, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Build with AI

I Built a Printable Product With Python — and Learned What Gumroad Actually Takes

24 print-ready planner pages generated in code at 300 DPI, packaged for Letter and A4, listed for $12. The build log, the print specs that actually matter, the real fee math, and the launch rule that means your first sale can't come from the marketplace.

August 20, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Workflows

Four Dictation Apps in One Week — and the Measurement That Explained All of Them

I tried four AI dictation tools and finished with none installed. Then I measured the audio instead of the apps, and one number explained failures I'd blamed on four different vendors. A transferable method for testing any AI tool on your own input.

August 20, 2026·10 min read·Read →
Tool Review

Klap, Honestly: The Clips Were Great. Saving Them Cost $29

The AI clipper that reads your two-hour video and hands back the eight moments worth posting. What it genuinely gets right, the free-tier export wall nobody mentions, August 2026 pricing, and the language caveat that decides it.

August 26, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Build with AI

I Publish Books From HTML — and the KDP Print Rules That Rejected Me Twice

Print-ready book interiors built from HTML, CSS and a headless browser instead of InDesign: the 300 DPI rule, the binary bleed rule that caused two rejections, the pre-flight check that ended them, and the price threshold that halves your royalty.

August 20, 2026·10 min read·Read →
Tool Review

Wispr Flow, Honestly: I Talk to My AI Instead of Typing to It

Most of building with AI is a writing job. For a few weeks I've been saying those words instead of typing them — what voice dictation changed, the August 2026 pricing, the free-tier catch, and the accent caveat that decides it.

August 3, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Workflows

The 8 GB Mac That Runs Four Brands

The actual hardware behind a four-brand, AI-heavy one-person operation: a base 8 GB Mac, one very good keyboard, and a 2018 GPU that refuses to retire.

July 30, 2026·6 min read·Read →
AI Builders

AI Website Builders in 2026: Where Wegic Fits (and the Credit Catch Nobody Mentions)

Chat your way to a whole multi-page site — but the credit meter that charges you even for failed edits is the part nobody puts on the pricing page. Where Wegic wins, and where Framer and Wix still beat it.

July 30, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Market Analysis

MuleRun and the App-Store Moment for AI Agents

An app store where you don't just run AI agents — you sell your own. What's real about the 500K-user marketplace, what's still marketing, and where Manus and Zapier actually fit.

July 30, 2026·8 min read·Read →
No-Code

No-Code App Builders in 2026: Where Appy Pie Actually Fits

The fastest, cheapest path from prompt to app store — and the billing complaints worth reading before you enter a card. Honest placement against Glide, Adalo, and FlutterFlow.

July 30, 2026·11 min read·Read →
Head-to-Head

Lovable vs Claude Code: Which One Should Build Your App?

The browser app builder against the terminal agent: July 2026 pricing, what Lovable genuinely does better, the Claude MCP integration that quietly links them, and who each one actually fits.

July 30, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Tool Review

Firecrawl, Honestly: When It's Worth It for Your AI Agent

Claude burns tokens reading the web because the web was built for people, not agents. The four techniques that cut the bill, the persistent-browser half nobody explains, and an honest answer to whether you actually need it.

July 31, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Workflows

Every Tool I Pay For, and the Six I Dropped

The honest stack behind two automated brands: what earns its subscription, what I cancelled, and the one $44 charge I'm still fighting to get off my card.

July 30, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Tool Review

The App That Schedules Four Brands While I Sleep

I publish to ten social accounts across four brands from one dashboard. Here's the tool, the workflow, and the default setting that nearly ruined thirty-six posts.

July 29, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Workflows

What Two Automated Brands Actually Cost Me Per Month

I run two content brands on autopilot. The real monthly bill isn't what I expected — one line is almost everything, and the second brand added almost nothing to it.

July 28, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Build with AI

Rendering Video From HTML, With No Cloud Bill

Thirty vertical videos rendered on an 8 GB M1 Mac for zero dollars. The measured speeds, and the seven failures that render "successfully" and still ship a wrong video.

July 27, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Workflows

The Night I Gave 36 Silent Posts a Voice

Thirty-six product reels sat in my scheduler with no audio. Fixing them meant rebuilding them from a JSON file — and the worst bug of the night wasn't in the video at all.

July 27, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Build with AI

I Measured Why AI APIs "Don't Work" From Saudi Arabia

Everyone says use a VPN. I measured the endpoints instead — every major AI API answered. The thing that actually blocks you is somewhere else, and a VPN cannot fix most of it.

July 26, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Head-to-Head

Amazon Polly vs ElevenLabs for Non-English Voiceover

I shipped Arabic narration with both in the same week. One wins on the voice. The other wins on something almost nobody benchmarks — and it decided which one runs every night.

July 26, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Workflows

I Auditioned Three AI Voices for One 40-Second Video

A production log from generating an Arabic AI voiceover: why I rendered the script three times, why the "correct" accent lost, and the numeral bug nobody documents.

July 25, 2026·7 min read·Read →
Workflows

Your Site Looks Different From Frankfurt

Your dashboard says global. You've only ever seen your site from one chair. What actually changes by country — and the mostly-free ways to check before your users do it for you.

July 25, 2026·9 min read·Read →
Head-to-Head

Claude Code vs Cursor: The Honest Version, from Inside the Terminal

July 2026 pricing, what Cursor genuinely does better, and who each tool actually fits — from a daily Claude Code user.

July 24, 2026·8 min read·Read →
Workflows

The Vibe Coding Starter Kit (2026)

One terminal agent, one free host, one cheap domain — and the three habits that do the real work. Total bill: about $31.

July 24, 2026·7 min read·Read →
Build with AI

How I Built This Entire Site with Claude Code in About 40 Minutes

The build log of this very site: the exact prompts, the ffmpeg trick behind the scroll video, three things that went wrong, and the real numbers.

July 23, 2026·7 min read·Read →