As a web developer and CTO with over 15 years of experience, I am passionate about building profitable small SaaS products and pursuing Go-to-Market strategy for them. My areas of expertise include high performance, networking technology and APIs, SRE, automation using Puppeteer.js, web scraping, and SQL databases.
1.5 years ago, I wrote a blog post sharing my thoughts and experience on using Make.com, Zapier, and Pipedream from my perspective (I recommend reading that piece before continuing here). When exploring these awesome platforms, I was mostly interested in how no-code and low-code products can enhance my
I'm a big fan of self-hosting. As an indie hacker who has launched several micro-SaaS products and as a CTO of a small company, I now prefer self-hosting all the tools I might need. With the rise of high-quality self-hosted offerings from talented teams using open source as their primary
Duolingo and flashcards get boring quickly, so lately I've been learning French with ChatGPT. Observation #1: ChatGPT for Android got a very good speech-to-text and text-to-speech engine based on Whisper, since fall 2023. It understands what you say well and intones its phrases nicely when it speaks. You can have
Let's imagine your product didn't die and managed to gain some real traction (🎉 CONGRATULATIONS!). After a few years it stops being a small and nimble project and turns into something much bigger, involving dozens and hundreds of people. Project lifecycle: MVP -> growth -> maintenance What does a full-stack engineer
Introduction As a seasoned developer with a keen interest in web scraping and data extraction, I've often leveraged Python for its simplicity and power. In this realm, understanding and utilizing proxies becomes a necessity, especially to navigate through the complexities of web requests, IP bans, and rate limiting. In this
In this article I will describe how to set a proxy in Playwright (Node.js version of Playwright). Playwright is obviously one of the best and most modern solutions to automate browsers in 2024. It uses the CDP protocol to send commands to browsers and supports Chromium, Chrome and Firefox
