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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

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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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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

I think so too! It'll be visible right on the tool card if the product is AI-native or not 👇🏻 One problem is figuring out where to draw the line

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

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

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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 · 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

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

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

New button groups and bookmarking feature in @dirstarter.com 💅🏻

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 05/02/2026

first time I'm seeing such method for auth would you consider adding the random number as the only account ID?

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

January 2026 update for @openalternative.co 🌱 🌐 468k pageviews (+28%) ⬆️ 📝 662 tools (+0.9%) ⬆️ 🫵🏻 50,261 tool clicks (+14.2%) ⬆️ 💰 $5,430 revenue (+5.3%) ⬆️ 📈 $5,739 MRR (+5.5%) ⬆️

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 29/01/2026

I just bought Mac Mini but not what you guys think for I've wanted to build a small home server for a while now and I got worried the prices will rise with the sudden spike in demand First step, set up @dokploy.bsky.social locally so I can manage my VPSes

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 27/01/2026

Love to see this, but hate to not know the source

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 26/01/2026

Prediction: AI wearables will soon have a huge comeback with the rise of a new wave of AI personal assistants that are actually smart. Being able to interact with something like ClawdBot using Rabbit or Humane would be awesome.

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 22/01/2026

This system saves me a lot of time reviewing submissions for @openalternative.co Automatically checks them daily and highlights what needs my attention

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Piotr Kulpinski @kulpinski.dev · 16/01/2026

EuroAlternative finally having its moment 🔥 I still struggle with getting it indexed on Google, but that won't stop me from growing the traffic DR at 42 LFG 🚀

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