I Built Fiverr Without the 20% Fees (Here’s What Actually Happened)
Last month, I paid $12.50 in fees on a $50 freelance job. The freelancer lost another $12.50 to Fiverr’s service fee. We both paid 25% to the platform for… w...
What I'm Working On
Founding Engineer at Refract Labs, building the future of next-gen invisible wallet infra makes onboarding anyone to Web3 dApps as easy as opening a link.
Recent Posts
Instant Referral Payouts Without Platform Fees
I spent three hours debugging why referrers weren’t getting paid. The smart contract worked perfectly in tests. Gas estimations were fine. But when I deploye...
Anti-Scalping Event Tickets With Smart Contract Price Caps
Taylor Swift tickets hit $5,000 on StubHub for shows that originally sold for $200. Scalpers used bots to buy hundreds of tickets in seconds, then resold the...
I Stake Crypto on My Morning Routine (Miss a Day, Lose Money)
I’ve tried every habit app. Streaks, Habitica, Done, Loop. I’d use them for 2 weeks, miss a day, and abandon them forever.
I Built Yelp for Crypto Apps (On Sui, With Move)
Learning a new smart contract language to build a review platform seemed unnecessary. Then I tried doing it on Ethereum and the gas costs killed the project ...
Employment History That Can’t Be Faked (Soulbound NFTs)
A friend’s company hired someone who claimed 5 years at Google. Three months in, they discovered the resume was completely fabricated. The person had never w...
Creator Tips With Zero Platform Fees (Just ENS + USDC)
Ko-fi takes 0% fees but charges for features. Patreon takes 5-12% depending on tier. Buy Me a Coffee takes 5%.
Curated NFT Marketplace Where Bad Taste Costs You Money
I wanted curators to have skin in the game. So I made them stake 0.1 ETH to earn the right to curate art. Pick good art, your reputation grows and you earn m...
No More Venmo Requests: Automatic Group Payment Splits on Base
Planning a group trip. 8 people. Total cost: $3,200. Everyone says they’ll pay their $400 share.
We Tried to Build ‘DAO Democracy’ (Here’s Why It’s Harder Than It Looks)
Three proposals. Zero votes. The dashboard showed 47 members with governance tokens, but when voting opened, nobody showed up.
Instant Music Royalties Without Spotify’s 70% Cut
Spotify pays artists $0.003 per stream. After the label takes their cut, the producer gets their share, and everyone else involved takes a piece, the songwri...