#indie-hacking articles

Yash Panchal1d ago · 3 min read

JSON-LD Recipes: BlogPosting, FAQPage, and SoftwareApplication Without a Plugin

Two weeks ago I wrote the overview: a static indie site needs three machine-readable files — sitemap, schema, and llms.txt. That post told you what each one is for. This one is the part I left out on

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Hamza Ali Basra4d ago · 5 min read

Your AI stack is probably charging you twice for the same thing

Let me guess how your AI subscriptions started. One for writing, because the free tier ran out mid-task. One for images, because a client needed something the first tool couldn't do. One that transcri

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Yash PanchalOct 22 · 5 min read

localStorage Is My Database (For Now): The Patterns That Work, the Limits That Bite, and When to Graduate

NitroIDE has no server and no database. Your projects still survive a browser restart, a closed tab, and a Monday morning. The entire persistence layer is localStorage — one API, string keys, string v

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DevDouble2Oct 20 · 3 min read

The Programmatic SEO Playbook: Escaping Google's Zero-Click Quarantine

When software engineers discover programmatic SEO, the instinct is almost always the same: scrape or curate a clean dataset, write a generator script, template 10,000 static HTML files, and let Google

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Yash PanchalOct 20 · 4 min read

I Built a Blog Engine With No Build Step: One JSON File, a noscript List, and a Gated RSS Feed

There's no CMS behind this blog. No static site generator, no build step, no database. Thirty-seven posts, and the entire "engine" is five files plus a checklist. That's not a brag — it's a design I c

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ludyOct 18 · 2 min read

Building FigureDraft in Public: The Review Step Is the Product

I’m Ludy, and I’m building FigureDraft: a tool for turning a research description into a scientific figure draft. The product has a deliberately narrow path. Describe the research, review objects, lab

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Yash PanchalOct 17 · 7 min read

12 Starters, Zero Blank Pages: A Tour of NitroIDE's Template Gallery

The hardest part of any project is the blank page. Not the hard algorithm, not the deployment — the empty editor, blinking at you, daring you to type something. NitroIDE's template gallery exists to k

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Yash PanchalOct 15 · 6 min read

Zero Security Headers to a Hardened Static Site: The Cloudflare Recipe I Run on NitroIDE

GitHub Pages is a wonderful host with one sharp edge: it cannot set HTTP response headers. Not one. Your site ships with zero security headers unless you add a layer in front of it that can. I build N

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Yash PanchalOct 13 · 7 min read

HMR Without a Bundler: How NitroIDE's Instant Preview Updates Actually Work

Type a character in Vite and the browser updates before your finger leaves the key. It feels like magic, but it isn't — it's a dev server, a WebSocket, a module graph, and a client runtime, all cooper

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Yash PanchalOct 11 · 2 min read

RSS Is Not Dead: I Resurrected My Blog Feed With One Tag

Conventional wisdom says RSS died years ago and the algorithm feeds won. Here's a story from my own site that argues otherwise. During a self-audit of NitroIDE, I found the blog feed had been silently

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JSON-LD Recipes: BlogPosting, FAQPage, and SoftwareApplication Without a Plugin

Your AI stack is probably charging you twice for the same thing

localStorage Is My Database (For Now): The Patterns That Work, the Limits That Bite, and When to Graduate

The Programmatic SEO Playbook: Escaping Google's Zero-Click Quarantine

I Built a Blog Engine With No Build Step: One JSON File, a noscript List, and a Gated RSS Feed

Building FigureDraft in Public: The Review Step Is the Product

12 Starters, Zero Blank Pages: A Tour of NitroIDE's Template Gallery

Zero Security Headers to a Hardened Static Site: The Cloudflare Recipe I Run on NitroIDE

HMR Without a Bundler: How NitroIDE's Instant Preview Updates Actually Work

RSS Is Not Dead: I Resurrected My Blog Feed With One Tag