Indie developer projects I'm working on
Small(ish) indie projects like this always push me to learn more about the web, programming and marketing.
Building custom AI Agents required me to look deeper into web scraping (most useful ai agents need to be able to browse the web effectively). At first I built everything myself from scratch, which was very inefficient. Looking for proprietary solutions to speed up my work, I discovered a vast landscape of amazing tools and services for searching, scraping and crawling the web. Since I always wanted to build my own directory I just went ahead and did it.
Building custom internal company chatbot/agent prototypes I noticed that I was always doing the same thing again and again (setting up RAG infrastructure, chatbot UIs, background jobs, improving LLM system instructions, changing models, etc. etc.). Building gemmabot.co I was scratching my own itch. What used to take me 1-2 days now takes only 1 hour, while keeping the same quality, control and flexibility. I use it mainly for myself, but it also has a public subscription.
I built a lead discovery to cold email automation workflow. In order to be effective with B2B cold email it's important to verify & enrich contact information. This lead me down a path of collecting and organizing the best lead sources and sales tools, which I turned into a directory (since I already had the codebase from bestscrapingtools.com ready).