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I replaced Miro in about 2 hours
Why We Built Petrograph: A Miro Replacement for the AI Era After ten years of using Miro for virtual whiteboarding and diagramming, I hit a wall. Like most SaaS products that measure success by feature count, Miro had…
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AI powered travel planning
How We Built an AI Travel Planner That Generates Custom Itineraries in SecondsPlanning a trip shouldn't take longer than the trip itself. Yet for most travelers, the reality is hours of research across dozens of tabs…
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Building your own LLM
Why We Built Our Own LLM on a Mac Mini (And Why You Should Too)We bought a Mac mini, downloaded Ollama, built a React interface, and started training our own AI model. No cloud bills. No data sharing. No permission…
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Tribute: Tipping local performers
Tribute: Bridging the Digital Tip Jar Gap for Live MusiciansCash is dead, and with it, the musician's tip jar. We built Tribute to solve a problem every live performer faces: how do you collect tips when your audience…
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Can AI help with mental health? Yes it can.
The Gatekeeping ProblemMental health support in America is rationed by money, geography, and time. The average wait for a therapy appointment is six weeks. A session costs $100 to $200 without insurance, assuming you…
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Sunrise: Building a TBI Recovery App With a Client Who Lived It
What changes when the client is the user.
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