Adam Kadlec

Founder, Studio81 Labs — small software, made on purpose

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I shipped my first product after a year: a WordPress assistant that books and quotes

I built a terminal workspace because I got tired of managing my development environment

I think founders misunderstand what Reddit is actually useful for.

Solo dev here. nobody using my app. how do you actually do marketing?

Managing two hyper-niche apps at completely different stages: 6 weeks of marketing one, prepping to launch the other

How did you size your free tier?

Show IH: I lost three weeks of AI context in one mistake. So I spent over a year building a local memory forest. (Mac only)

How do you decide what to build next as an indie hacker?

32 commits later, the biggest improvement wasn't technical

The Many Roles of a One-Person Business

Show IH: TinyPDF is 100% free, no ads, no paywall — here's why, and what might change

I let a cron expire 69 of my own drafts. Best call this month.

You Don't Need More Ideas. You Need Better Signals.

I’m building a tool to help founders kill bad startup ideas before building — what signal would you trust?

67K impressions in 2 days from a single Daily-Dev post — here's what happened

From idea to launch in 2 weeks: How I built TinyPDF to solve my own job-hunting pain

Building v2 of my payments backend in Go after a year on Node. Here is what v1 actually taught me.

Building a startup costs $0. Your tooling budget costs $500K. Here's why.

Three people signed up for my SaaS... and none uploaded a document.

I'm building an iPhone photo backup app. Here's what 3 months of pre-launch taught me.