... launched a new release of ApyHub and the thing I keep thinking about isn't our launch (only). It's the providers. While building our catalog we kept finding the same story. A solo dev builds a genuinely great API. A holiday data service. A screenshot renderer. A receipt or resume parser. Technically excellent, solving a real problem, and almost nobody knows it exists. The person who built it is busy maintaining it, and distribution is a full-time ... ... built an API or a product with one, how do you actually get it in front of users? SEO? Directories? Marketplaces? Just your own audience? And what would make you list it on someone else's platform vs

... when makers start connecting a bit before launch instead of showing up the same day and hoping for magic. PH itself basically says getting familiar with the community ahead of time matters a lot. Also makes sense coming from ApyHub since you re already deep in the API/dev tools world. Really generous offer early support is way more valuable than last-minute hype. Comment from Nikolas Dimitroulakis(@nikolas_dimitroulakis): @alpertayfurr  yes exactly :) From my side I dont plan ...

... with PayPal because I already had the account laying around. Might add Stripe later. I just went with a pay as you go credit based system and I just track the credits in my own DB. Tools/Process: Fired up VS Code, installed Claude Code, used it to author everything for the front end and back end. Used Amazon Q to help me setup all the cloud infrastructure. Went with Elastic Beanstalk for the back end and just a S3 bucket ... ... with static hosting forthe front end. Simple Postgresql RDS. Comment from Ryan Hendrickson(@ryan_hendrickson): @maria_vannicola  Nice! Was there something that brought you to use Firebase over other alternatives