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APIs, Node.js, Hono, serverless and infrastructure. 20 articles.

1. Oct 18, 2026

   Social Media Posting Automation: Free Tools & APIs (2026)

   A long comparison of social media posting and scheduling APIs, open-source schedulers, official platform APIs and SDKs (October 2026), with verified pricing, limits, licenses and cost at three real workloads.

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2. Oct 16, 2026

   How to Estimate What Your SaaS Will Cost to Run (Before the Bill Surprises You)

   How to estimate your SaaS running cost by hand: read the repo like a bill, find hidden costs, swap to cheaper stacks, and share the estimate with a free open-source calculator.

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3. Oct 2, 2026

   How to Build an AI Agent System That Researches 100 Blogs a Day (RSS, Google News, Reddit, YouTube)

   A concrete walkthrough of the iHateReading research layer: RSS, Google News, Reddit, YouTube transcripts, URL hashing, LLM classification, and turning the pipeline into a content-ideas dashboard SaaS.

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4. Sep 28, 2026

   From Finding Clients to a Smart SaaS: Building an AI Scraping Agent Dashboard

   How I went from building websites with no distribution to a cheap, custom B2B lead-gen stack—scrapers, AI query agents, data enrichment, and a SaaS dashboard you can sell to clients.

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5. Sep 26, 2026

   How We're Keeping ihatereading.in Under $100/Month at 10k Visitors

   How to reduce website hosting costs in 2026: the Vercel Fluid Compute, Cloudflare Workers, and Firebase changes that keep ihatereading.in under $100 a month at 10,000 visitors.

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6. Sep 11, 2026

   15 Micro-SaaS Ideas Actually Making Money in 2026

   And How to Validate Yours Before You Build

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7. Aug 29, 2026

   AI-Automated Reddit Trend Scraper that saved us $1000/month on Content Creation

   Using Honojs, OpenRouter and Scrapefast, how we built one on our own

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8. Aug 19, 2026

   Firecrawl Alternatives: ScrapeFast vs Firecrawl vs ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI

   Free, open-source Hono.js alternative you can self-host today

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9. Apr 13, 2026

   One honojs file for entire web scraping API

   Building scrape endpoints using one honojs file

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10. Mar 11, 2026

    Whole fight for AI sandbox

    Why AI agent need sandbox to execute code and its not cheap

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11. Jan 13, 2026

    Everyone will be a builder and creator in future

    From Ideas to Products: Building a System for the Builder–Creator Era

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12. Jan 12, 2026

    Top SAAS Directories

    Platforms to submit your next idea

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13. Oct 10, 2025

    1000+ India cities unplash images, latitude longitude, airbnb listings and more

    October 10 letter, Biggest dataset for Indian Tourism

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14. Sep 27, 2025

    Web scraping

    Discussing npm modules

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15. Aug 15, 2025

    POST API for pushing content on Devto

    Content post automation script or API

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16. Aug 13, 2025

    Crawling and Searching

    Finding answers on Internet is still most important API to build

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17. Jul 25, 2025

    Getting Started with Honojs

    Getting started with Hono.js

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18. Jul 18, 2025

    Event Loop

    What it is and How to make the one

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19. Jan 26, 2025

    Scraping 500+ links from 100 emails

    Web scraping real-world example without using AI

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20. Jan 16, 2025

    Paypal payment integration in Next.js

    2 steps to add payments but still a task

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