GoldBug is hunting for gold...
GoldBug is hunting for gold...
A one-person army needs to connect with the world. Hand-picked learning resources, discovery channels, and case studies — not an exhaustive index, but every link worth your time.
Awesome lists, blogs, and video channels
The most authoritative Claude Code curated list. 43k+ stars.
MCP server directory. Hundreds of ready-made connectors. 83k+ stars.
The original prompt collection. 120k+ stars. Battle-tested.
Curated LLM applications with source code. Build real things.
Comprehensive generative AI resource list. Academic + industry.
Frontier AI research. Claude model cards, alignment, interpretability.
GPT research, API updates, engineering deep-dives.
The OG AI educator. Deep dives on transformers, LLMs, and AGI.
Technical ML/AI blog. RLHF, agents, diffusion models explained clearly.
Pragmatic AI engineering. SQLite, LLM tools, and shipping philosophy.
ML systems design. Real-world production ML engineering.
Deep technical breakdowns of AI capabilities and benchmarks.
AI research papers explained in digestible 5-minute videos.
Amazon senior scientist. Paper readings + deep learning courses.
ML paper reviews with critical takes. No hype, just analysis.
Code reports. Fast-paced tech news for developers.
Where to find the next great tool
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Spend 15 min/day on these channels instead of social media. Save interesting tools to your Notion radar — in 3 months you'll have an enviable toolkit.
Real stories. Real numbers. Real inspiration.
2-person team → 2.8M monthly users. Bootstrapped. No VC. Open-source developer learning platform that shows what's possible with focus + community.
Founder interviews from $0 to $1M+. Detailed revenue breakdowns. Real numbers from real founders.
The home of solo founders. Revenue dashboards, interviews, and a community that gets it.
12 months → $3M ARR. Nomad List, Remote OK, PhotoAI. The bootstrapper's blueprint.
21 products shipped. $100K+ monthly. Ship fast. Iterate in public.
Jike's AI indie dev circle. Chinese solo founders sharing daily builds & revenue.
Juejin indie dev tag. Technical deep-dives and product launch stories from China.
AI music, 3D, UI components, interaction inspiration
Hand-picked tools popular in the international indie hacker community
Ultra-low latency global config store. Feature flags, A/B tests, and dynamic config at the edge — reads in <1ms.
No DB needed for runtime config. Perfect for feature flags and kill switches on global scale.
Deploy anything with a Dockerfile. Instant Postgres, Redis, and zero-config scaling. The fastest path from repo to production.
Heroku's spiritual successor. One-click deploys with built-in DB, no YAML config needed.
Deploy apps close to users. Run Docker containers on six continents. Free tier covers most indie projects.
True global deployment. Your app runs in Singapore, London, and Virginia simultaneously.
Zero DevOps cloud. Static sites, web services, cron jobs, and managed Postgres. Simpler than AWS.
The simplest cloud platform. If you find AWS overwhelming, Render is your answer.
Complete user management. Pre-built UI components for sign-up, sign-in, profiles, and org management. Embed in 5 minutes.
Drop-in auth that handles MFA, social login, and session management. Free for 10,000 MAU.
Framework-agnostic auth library. Own your user data — no third-party service dependency. Sessions, OAuth, and passwords done right.
You own the data. No vendor lock-in. Perfect for privacy-conscious projects.
Ultrafast web framework for the edge. Runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, and Node.js. TypeScript-first, 14KB runtime.
Express-compatible API. Faster, smaller, and built for the edge. Perfect for API backends.
TypeScript framework built for Bun. Type safety end-to-end with Eden Treaty. Faster than Express and Fastify combined.
Bun-native. Auto-generates type-safe clients. If you use Bun, this is your framework.
SQLite at the edge. Distributed database with 0ms cold starts. Fork a DB to 30+ locations worldwide.
SQLite but distributed. Perfect read-heavy apps. 9B rows free tier. No cold start penalty.
Serverless MySQL platform. Schema branching like Git. Non-blocking schema changes. Built on Vitess (powers YouTube).
Database workflows like code. Branch, deploy request, merge. Zero-downtime migrations.
Email for SaaS. Transactional and marketing emails with a clean API. Built specifically for modern SaaS products.
Designed for SaaS from day one. Event-triggered flows, user properties, and clean templates.
Industry-standard email delivery. 100 free emails/day forever. Trusted by 80,000+ paying customers for transactional email.
The reliability king. If your emails must arrive, use SendGrid. Excellent deliverability.