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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 25/09/2026

Pricing update on dirstarter.com Sometimes you gotta take a step back Before / after

Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 08/09/2026

Been playing with this for a few days now and it's really solid Basically turns your screen recordings into structured briefs that Claude/Cursor can actually execute. Perfect for those "just fix this thing" moments that never become proper tickets 👇 trycomms.app/

trycomms.app

Comms — Show it, say it, send it to any agent

Comms turns what you show and say into a brief your agent can execute. Send it in one click, to any agent. Local-only, for macOS.

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 01/09/2026

Just sold my first ever domain online 🎉 That's a weird feeling after dozens that I bought 😅

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EuroAlternative @euroalternative.eu · 28/08/2026

We just migrated our account to @eurosky.social 🎉

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 14/08/2026

I just made it easy to support your favorite open source projects while browsing openalternative.co

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 12/08/2026

You can see the pace of growth directly on tool cards now at @openalternative.co ⬆️ Used the stacked arrow approach I remember from the old games 😅 Also, replaced the fork count with the license as it's more important to see right away.

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 12/08/2026

Star History stopped working recently, so I've built my own at openalternative.co 😅

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 27/07/2026

Working on a new repository summary for OpenAlternative 👇🏻 What do you think?

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 23/07/2026

- Clone my template 1:1 - Submit it to one of my sites - 👍🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 23/07/2026

My Keywords Everywhere credits were expiring yesterday so I had Claude burn through them Asked it to do keyword research across all my projects until the credits ran out Got back a full SEO audit and content strategy for each site, plus a linking strategy to connect them all Gold! 🤯

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 23/07/2026

If your AI conversations are getting really slow, try compacting them This happens a lot with long-context models (Opus 1M, etc) when the conversation gets too long Most tools have a "compact" or "summarize" feature that keeps the context but reduces the tokens Makes a huge difference 👍🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 22/07/2026

OpenAlternative is at a point where if I add new content to the site, it gets indexed and ranked *immediately* This example took only few minutes to show up in search results 🤯

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 15/07/2026

Redoing navigation on OpenAlternative Starting with mobile first left = before / right = after

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 15/07/2026

The amount of slop that's *launching* on ProductHunt each day is mind-boggling

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 15/07/2026

EuroAlternative finally starting to get some love from the SEO Gods 👍🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 10/07/2026

I kinda like how snappy it turned out

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 10/07/2026

OpenAlternative ad system is now running entirely on revinel.com Getting this close to launching this platform 🤏🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 06/07/2026

my new ad platform is finally taking shape 💅🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 02/07/2026

People are putting "Featured on OpenAlternative" badges in their hero sections now This feels wild. Never thought the brand would carry enough weight for this

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 01/07/2026

The only way I "browse" HackerNews these days

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 30/06/2026

OpenAlternative got featured in today's Dense Discovery Totally caught me by surprise. Been reading it for years, so this feels pretty surreal Thanks @densediscovery.bsky.social 🙏

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I just discovered the open source alternative website created by @kulpinski.dev . Good for anyone looking to escape increasing subscription pricing, corporate privacy intrusion or choosing principals. openalternative.co

openalternative.co

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software

A curated collection of the best open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. Save money with reliable tools hand-picked for you.

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 18/06/2026

Is this only me or is the whole "SEO is dead" discussion actually is "Google Search is dead" and other are taking over/catching up?

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 12/06/2026

Claude is now handling my content scheduling for @dirstarter.com. I write the articles in batches in MDX, create separate PRs for each, and they get merged automatically on their publication date 👍🏻

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 10/06/2026

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 02/06/2026

I just paid a $100 for a mono font. AMA

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OpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 01/06/2026

Thank you ❤️

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 29/05/2026

I always check Brew casks added for hot new mac apps Found some nice gems few times already

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 15/04/2026

Such a bummer Sonnet 4 is still the GOAT for reliable content generation IMO

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 31/03/2026

Refreshed the design of Dirstarter to make it lighter and easier to read Cleaned up the typography, added more whitespace, and toned down the colors. The old version felt a bit heavy. We'll see how conversion reacts, but so far so good 🤞🏻 ➡️ dirstarter.com

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 20/03/2026

TIL: aerial wallpaper videos on MacOS take ~43GB on your disk 🤯

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 17/03/2026

Here goes your autonomously running company email

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 12/03/2026

Self-hosting is so easy with AI 🤯 Claude just migrated my n8n instance in 1 prompt, with data migration, DNS update, and Cloudflare tunnel. It even fixed the small issue that I had with one of the nodes 🙌🏻 Side note: love my mac mini more and more 🖤

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 04/03/2026

Never have we worked so hard, to work so little

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 02/03/2026

February 2026 update for @openalternative.co 🌱 🌐 543k pageviews (+16%) 📝 682 tools (+3%) 🫵🏻 53,799 tool clicks (+7%) 💰 $6,851 revenue (+26.3%) 📈 $6,960 MRR (+21.2%) Solid month. Traffic got a nice boost from the Discord drama that went viral. Added 6 new paying subscribers too

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 02/03/2026

Dirstarter just hit $30k in total revenue 🎉 • First $10k → 5 months • Second $10k → 5 months • Third $10k → 2 months Wild to see it actually accelerating. Still can't believe this is working

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 02/03/2026

Someone reached out saying the rotating ad in the bottom corner is super distracting for people with ADHD Which sucks because it's also my best performing ad spot Gotta figure out how to make this work for everyone 🤔

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 02/03/2026

POV: you're dying but still want to look good in the coffin

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 27/02/2026

Kind of wild that we're unlearning years of grammar education just to sound human again One of the quirks of the AI age I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 26/02/2026

Just got an email from a customer who wants to send me an extra $1000 because they think my product is underpriced 🤯 This made my whole week

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 18/02/2026

Affiliate marketing feels like a full time job sometimes You have to apply for all those programs and you can't know if it's gonna work But when it works... it works Just got my first referral for @papermark.io 🎉

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 16/02/2026

those 4 Chrome extensions make YouTube usable for me

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 11/02/2026

If you have a website and not using @openstatus.dev speed check you're missing out 🤯 I was able to improve the performance in some regions by up to 150x 🤯 They have an AI skill you can install to let agents check the performance in multiple regions at once. Link ⬇️

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 09/02/2026

build it and they will come

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 09/02/2026

Being featured on @indiehackers.com podcast was always a dream, but I'll also take a written article 🎉 My story is featured on the IH homepage today 🚀 Feels like a great achievement tbh. Worth a read if you're curious about my story 🫶🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 07/02/2026

Working on improving the ad pickers for Dirstarter and I forgot how good the modern CSS is these days. It was just few classes of @tailwindcss.com to implement this carousel 🤯

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