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Arc has been in maintenance mode since May 2025. The Browser Company got acquired by Atlassian, the whole team moved to an AI browser called Dia, and Arc will never get another feature. I use it every single day and I'm not switching. Here's the honest case for staying — and who should run for the exit.

Most of my readers already use HubSpot or have used it. So I'm skipping the 'what is a CRM' part and going straight to the operator view: what I actually do on it, why the free tier is unfairly underrated, and what changed when they shipped an MCP server. Lucid, not loving.

I paid Ubersuggest's lifetime deal in 2022. Four years later I still use it — and I'm not in love with it. Then in April 2026 they shipped an MCP server, and the unit economics changed. Here's the lucid version of both halves.

I moved my domains to Cloudflare after a registrar nearly killed my site. I stayed because of a free product almost no founder talks about: Turnstile. Here's why the boring DNS guide isn't the real story.

A lot of people ask me if n8n is dead now that we have AI agents. The opposite. AI hallucinates. n8n doesn't. Plus: n8n just shipped MCP — Claude can now build workflows for you. The deterministic substrate didn't change. The thing on top of it just got faster.

I spent last week in Italy, working part-time. My Mac Mini in Barcelona ran 25 AI agents, 8 automations, and 7 bots the whole time. I touched it twice, both from an iPhone. Here's how.

I migrated from Notion to Obsidian 4 months ago. AI agents now write into the vault. Plain markdown, wikilinks, second brain on disk. The repo.

Typefully removes the Twitter timeline. Write, schedule, never scroll. Free 5 drafts, paid $12.50/mo. Honest review + scheduling workflow.

A complete guide to planning your tracking strategy and implementing GTM, GA4, custom events, and privacy from the terminal with Claude Code.

Independent search index, no tracking, $5 API credit for AI workflows. 100M users. Here's the honest 3-product review: browser, search, API.

My AI agent manages €750/month in Meta Ads. Here's the full setup: agent file, API connections, operating rules, and weekly workflow.

9 tools reviewed over Q1 2026 — no sponsorships, no fluff. Netlify, Astro, Supabase, Fathom and more, ranked by how much I actually use them.

I needed recently funded European startups as prospects. Instead of buying a stale list, I built the system that generates the list. One afternoon, six Python scripts, real numbers.

50 free monitors. 5-min interval checks. Email, Slack, SMS alerts. I monitor 9 sites with it. 30-second setup. Here's where the free plan breaks.

I needed auth, a database, and row-level security for a learning platform. Supabase gave me all of it in a day — on the free tier.

Most discovery calls are interrogations. FAVORITE is a conversation framework I built and tested across 6 companies and 50+ sales conversations. Here's the full breakdown.

Invoices, competitor pages, RSS articles — all unstructured. LangExtract takes any text and returns structured JSON using examples, not prompts. Here's my setup and real use cases.

Senja collects text + video testimonials with zero manual work. Free tier covers most cases. Exact setup I used to fill a landing page in days.

962K websites run on Astro. I built 2 production sites — one static, one full-stack. Why I dropped Next.js and won't go back.

I had 450 companies in HubSpot and hadn't cleaned it in over a year. Claude Code connected via MCP did it in 3 hours. Here's exactly what happened.

30 days after open-sourcing my AI workspace: 36 agents, 13 MCP integrations, and the architecture rewrites nobody warned me about.

Fathom records, transcribes, summarizes every call. Unlimited free on Google Meet. From $19/mo paid. Honest review + AI sales workflow.

Context files, slash commands, specialized agents. One terminal runs my ads, writes proposals, tracks deals, and deploys websites. Here's what's inside.

How a single no-oriented email ended three weeks of stalling and brought a prospect back within two hours — and the exact framework to know when to send it.

How a solo founder with no sales background built a 60-point deal scoring system in HubSpot to stop wasting time on prospects that will never close.

Run full Claude Code sessions from iPhone via SSH. Termius + Tailscale + tmux setup. Zero cost. 3-minute install. Tested on a train across Italy.

How an Italian furniture brand cut Meta Ads CPL by 94% in two months — from stuck audiences to €7.65 average CPL and 101 leads in January 2026.

An honest build log: Astro 5, Claude Code, 4 homepage iterations, one rejected full redesign, and why most of the work was throwing things away.

50K map loads/month free. Pay-as-you-go after. Mapbox pricing breakdown, free tier limits, when it beats Google Maps, when it doesn't.

I host 8 sites on Netlify. Here's the free tier in 2026: 300 credits, SSL, custom domain. What breaks. Where you'll pay. Honest review.

Hemingway App grades your writing, flags passive voice and adverbs, kills filler. Free, browser-based, no signup. Cold email workflow inside.

Gamma generates decks from text in 60 seconds. I built 7 in 4 hours. PPTX export quality tested, free tier limits, where it breaks.