If you run a small business, side project, or SaaS, you probably want a professional email address like: support @ yourdomain.com hello @ yourdomain.com But most email hosting services charge $5 to $12 per user per...
If you’ve ever tried to find a short domain for your brand, you already know how this goes. You come up with a good, catchy domain name. You head to a registrar. It’s taken or crazy expensive. So you try another...
One thing I’ve learned running T.LY is that SEO growth doesn’t always come from blog posts or chasing backlinks. Over the past year, I’ve been experimenting with a different approach: building small, free tools that...
After years of reliable camera streaming, I recently upgraded my RTSP Camera Dashboard from a Raspberry Pi to a Dell Mini OptiPlex with Ubuntu. I am still using the Wyze Cameras flashed with the RTSP firmware, which...
I recently joined Eric Barnes on the Laravel News Creator Series podcast , where I discussed my journey as a developer, the origins of T.LY URL Shortener , and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It was great to...
A few weeks ago, Bitly announced they would start showing ads and interstitial pages on free redirects in February. In my opinion, this will cause a lot of frustration for the billions of Bitly short links. This...
What will happen when billions of links vanish overnight? That’s exactly what is going to occur when Google’s URL shortener, Goo.gl, shut down after dominating the link-shortening market for nearly a decade. Google...
I got a chance to be on the Build Your SaaS podcast with Justin Jackson and share my journey building side projects over the past 10+ years. I’ve been following Justin for years; it was awesome chatting with him! We...
Simplicity over Complexity TLDR: Buy the Shure MV7 USB Microphone , Neewer LED lights , and the Logitech Brio 4K Webcam , and your video call quality will significantly improve, and you will have a simple yet...
Have you ever looked at a successful founder and thought, “Wow, they must have just gotten lucky”? It’s easy to assume that someone had overnight success, but the truth is often much different. It’s also easy to use...
