Full stack JS & Ruby Developer, @Luckycart, ex @T7D_Gaming , @SeembaOfficial , @Devagnos . Entrepreneur and conferences speaker.
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I said this I forgot to who but I said it
BigTech will eventually come for all apps / startups / companies because they can fill the niches now that before could not because they were too small
Those niches is where entrepeneurs hung out, nice parts of the market people could build a little SaaS with $100K/y to even $100M/y, notjing like the $100B/y revenue BigTech was doing, but worth it
With AI now BigTech can fill those niches + they are the ones training and owning the best models, and keeping the best models for themselves they can outcompete anyone who doesn't own them (everyone except other BigTech)
End game for their survival is simply trying to take every business, it's just capitalism
This completely changes the prospect for entrepreneurs as there won't be much left, because BigTech is financially incentivized to have to take everything
Because if they don't, their competitor will!
teapawt.net/marmaduke091/status/20…
2026 indie hacker stack that actually ships:
1. #AI for speed (#ClaudeCode for the heavy lifting)
2. #Rails or #Nextjs for structure (conventions > decisions)
3. #Stripe for money (just works)
4. People are fond of #Vercel but I prefer a good old VPS with #Coolify
5. Simple analytics (no bloat)
Pick boring tech for everything except your core differentiator. Let AI handle the rest.
Ship 3x more, stress 3x less.
#IndieHacker #BuildInPublic #Claude #Anthropic
The indie hacker AI stack in 2026:
1. #Claude for code generation (best reasoning)
2. Cheap inference providers for production (margins matter)
3. Ruthless cost tracking (GPU bills kill companies)
Saw @levelsio cut GPU costs by 52% this week just by switching providers. That's not optimization — that's survival.
The best AI-powered products aren't the ones with the fanciest models. They're the ones that can actually sustain themselves.
#IndieHacker #BuildInPublic #Anthropic
Yesterday #Claude went down for 2h45m. The reason? "Unprecedented demand."
Users flooded to Anthropic after #OpenAI signed the Pentagon deal.
The market is choosing: #AI that refuses to build surveillance tools > AI that chases defense contracts.
Principles matter. And they're winning.
#Anthropic #AIethics
Claude hit #1 on the App Store.
Not through marketing. Not through hype.
Through refusing to compromise on principles.
#Anthropic said no to mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Got blacklisted. And users responded by making #Claude the most downloaded AI app.
This is what happens when a company actually stands for something.
#AI #BuildWithPrinciples
AI didn't replace my coding skills. It replaced my excuses.
🧵 Thread on why this is the golden age for indie builders:
What I've changed:
1. Default to trying instead of planning
2. Refactors are now maintenance, not projects
3. Side features ship same-day if they add value
4. "Later" list is shorter because "now" is cheaper
The golden age for indie builders isn't about AI writing perfect code.
It's about removing friction between "I wonder if..." and "Let's see."
Ship more. Learn faster. That's the formula.
#IndieHacker #AI #BuildInPublic #ShipFast
Something I've noticed: the devs growing fastest on here aren't just posting code snippets.
They're explaining WHY they made a decision. The reasoning behind picking Rails over Next, or choosing SQLite over Postgres for a side project.
Context beats cleverness every time. #DevCommunity #LearnInPublic
Unpopular opinion: Most indie hackers fail not because their product is bad, but because they build for 6 months before talking to a single user.
Ship the ugly v1. Get 10 people to pay. Then polish.
Revenue validates faster than any feature roadmap ever will. #IndieHacker #BuildInPublic
The devs who will thrive in 2026 aren't picking between AI and traditional coding.
They're using Claude to scaffold the boring stuff, then going deep on architecture decisions no AI can make for them.
The skill isn't prompting. It's knowing what to validate. #WebDev #CodingWithAI
Building a SaaS in 2026 as a solo dev is a completely different game than 3 years ago.
Rails for speed. Claude for the boring parts. Stripe for payments. Ship in a weekend, iterate on Monday.
The barrier to entry has never been lower — but the bar for quality keeps going up. #IndieHacker #SaaS
Hot take: The best backend developers in 2026 aren't the ones who memorize every API. They're the ones who know how to describe what they need to an AI and validate the output.
Knowing Rails, NestJS, or Next.js still matters — but your ability to think in systems and verify code is now the real edge. #WebDev #CodingWithAI
France builds world-class startups. Then refuses to buy from them. 🇫🇷
The 39 largest French corporations spent only 1.99% of their purchasing budgets on startups in 2024. Even the top 5 most engaged ones barely hit 4.78%.
Meanwhile, #MistralAI, #Pigment, #Exotec are global leaders in their categories.
The risk? These companies relocate to the US where enterprises actually buy from startups. France doesn't have a startup problem. It has a customer problem.
frenchtechjournal.com/france…
Saudi Arabia's #HUMAIN just dropped $3 billion into Elon Musk's #xAI. 🇸🇦
Those shares convert into #SpaceX equity when the $1.25 trillion merger closes. About 0.24% of the combined company.
This builds on their 500MW data center partnership from November. Saudi Arabia isn't just diversifying from oil anymore. They're becoming a structural player in the global AI stack.
The MENA region is quietly becoming the most consequential AI investor in the world.
wamda.com/2026/02/humain-tak…
Google's head of startups just said the quiet part out loud: #LLM wrappers and AI aggregators are dead business models. 💀
Darren Mowry compared them to early cloud startups reselling AWS. Remember how that ended?
"The industry doesn't have a lot of patience for that anymore."
If your entire moat is a nice UI on top of someone else's model, you're one API update away from irrelevance. Build IP or get crushed.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/go…
