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Hi, I'm Lukas.
This is my personal space. I build products on my own and write about what I learn along the way. When something's worth sharing, it ends up here.
What I'm building
SnapStudio
LiveA design studio for social content, layers, brand kits and templates, built so an AI agent can drive it directly through MCP.
Swift
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Triathlify
LiveAn AI coach that builds your triathlon training plan and rewrites it every week based on what you actually did, not what the calendar said you'd do.
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What I've been digging into
Every so often I pick a handful of topics and go deep instead of skimming everything. Here's what's had my attention lately.
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Alibaba's Wan3.0 Video API Is 30% Off Through September 23. Price Your Feature at the Real Rate, Not the Launch Rate
Wan3.0 turns a slide deck into a 30-second video and costs $0.05 to $0.20 per second, minus a launch discount that expires September 23. Here's the math before you build a pricing page around a promo.
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Anthropic Fixed Its Data Retention Problem on September 1. The Fix Requires Your Own Cloud Account, So It Skips You
Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets big Claude customers store retention logs themselves instead of trusting Anthropic. If you're building solo on the API, the 30-day retention rule from June still applies to you, unchanged.
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Apple's New EU App Store Terms Land October 1. The Fee That Got Killed Never Touched a Small Developer Anyway
Apple replaced the per-install Core Technology Fee with a flat 5% commission, effective October 1. The real news for a solo iOS developer is who now qualifies for alternative distribution, and it isn't you.
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GitHub Copilot's Padded Credits Ran Out September 1. Your Bill Just Dropped to What the Seat Price Actually Buys
Copilot Business and Enterprise seats got three months of bonus AI credits to soften the move to usage-based billing. That padding expired September 1, and the September invoice is the first real one.
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One Founder Turned 4,500 Product Hunt Signups Into 5 Paying Customers. That 0.1% Is the Story, Not the Badge
A #1 Product of the Day launch produced thousands of visitors and single-digit conversions for at least one founder this year. Reddit and Indie Hackers threads are reportedly converting at multiples of that rate.
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