Gabe LG

Software Developer turned founder

About

I'm a software dev with 20+ years experience, yes it's a lot. I've turned fulltime founder and shipper. Will be shipping a lot of startups here in the near future.

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Tastemaker

Veteran

Gone streaking

Maker History

MailKite server-panel recipesEmail for Forge, Ploi & RunCloud in one command
Jul 2026
SeedessStream 4K video serverless to 8 billion people
Apr 2018

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Joined Product HuntMarch 4th, 2018

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4mo ago

MailKite server-panel recipes - Email for Forge, Ploi & RunCloud in one command

MailKite for Laravel Forge — one-command CLI to wire MailKite email (SMTP relay or native mailer + inbound webhook) into a Forge site.

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5mo ago

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I tried to vibe-code my way to a SaaS… and failed

Last summer, the idea for my SaaS, Xolora, started to take shape. Around the same time, the concept of vibe coding was blowing up. As a non-technical founder, it sounded like a dream come true. No coding experience? No problem, just let AI handle it.

The beginning was incredibly promising. Using Emergent made me feel unstoppable. I was seeing my idea come to life.

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9mo ago

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Is usage-based pricing becoming the norm for AI tools?

Hey everyone,

I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market.
That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.

In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.

For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools: