Jim L - DEV Community

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Jul 29

Why My Bongo Cat Drop-Rate Tool Refuses to Give You a Single Legendary Percentage

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Jul 27

I Needed a Signature Stamp by 9 AM. The Print Shop Wanted 3 Days.

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Jul 25

The One Feature I Shipped That Doesn't Get a Second Try

#indiehacker #ai #sideprojects #product

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Jul 17

I Got Tired of AI Quiz Tools Making Up Facts That Weren't In My Notes, So I Built One That Can't

#ai #productivity #sideprojects #webdev

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Jul 13

The My Dino Park Offline Earnings Formula Everyone Uses Is Wrong

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Jul 13

Why Your 200th Kraken Reroll Has the Same Odds as Your First

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Jul 13

Why Rejecting Anomalies Faster Protects Sanity Better Than Coffee in Animal Hospital

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Jul 12

I built a YouTube-to-blog tool. Here's what broke and what a 'credit' actually costs.

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Jul 9

I built a rebirth calculator for Ice Tycoon 2 because I kept doing the math wrong in my head

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Jul 8

Three tiny Roblox helper sites I shipped this month

#gamedevwebsideprojectdev

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Jul 4

I Compared 30+ Subscription Prices After Realizing I Was Overpaying by $240 a Year

#moneysaasproductivity

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Jul 4

Six Small Roblox Fan Sites I Built This Year

#robloxgamingindie

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Jul 2

Building Tools for 3 Small Roblox Fan Sites in the Same Week (What Worked, What Didn't)

#tutorial

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Jul 1

I Built a Value Score Calculator for a New Anime Gacha Roblox Game (34 Units, One Patch In)

#tutorial

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Jun 30

Two Tools for Side Projects: SEO Dashboard and Subscription Tracker

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Jun 30

Universal Tower Defense X and Slime RNG: Two Roblox Guides Actually Worth Reading

#webdev

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Jun 30

Sell Lemons Roblox Guide: How the Ascend System Actually Works

#tutorial

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Jun 29

I Built 4 More Niche Roblox Guide Sites This Week — The Workflow Behind It

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Jun 27

I reverse-engineered a Roblox incremental game's upgrade math -- here's what the payback formula looks like

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Jun 25

16 Roblox Game Fan Sites with Free Codes and Tier Lists (June 2026)

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Jun 25

I Tracked Traffic Across 6 Roblox Fan Sites for 40 Days — Here Is What the Data Shows

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Jun 21

I Logged 200 Slime RNG Sessions — The Biome Probability Data Is Surprising

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Jun 21

The Upgrade Order That Actually Doubled My Sell Lemons Income Per Hour

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Jun 21

I Reverse-Engineered Kaiju Alpha's U-Cell Economy and the Numbers Are Wild

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Jun 17

Sell Lemons Roblox Guide: How the Ascend System Actually Works

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Jun 15

What Logging 40 Hours of a Roblox Game Taught Me About Designing Progression

#tutorial

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Jun 11

AgencyAnalytics vs Looker Studio for Multi-Site Reporting: What Actually Broke for Me

#seomarketinproductivitywebdevg

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Jun 9

How I Built a Roblox Codes Tracker on Next.js + Cloudflare Workers — Traffic Data After 3 Months

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Jun 9

I Built 13 Niche Roblox Guide Sites on Next.js + Cloudflare — What the Traffic Data Shows After 3 Months

#showdev #analytics #nextjs #sideprojects

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Jun 9

I Compared 5 SEO Reporting Tools for Agency Clients — Here's the Real Cost Breakdown

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Jun 7

6 SEO Reporting Tools for Agencies Compared — An Operator's Honest Review

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Jun 7

I Compared 6 SEO Reporting Tools for Agencies — Here's the Honest Breakdown

#seoagencymarketingtools

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Jun 6

Stop reading SEO ROI as a percentage — read the payback period instead

#seo #marketing #webdev #analytics

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Jun 5

Managing SEO Across Multiple Client Websites: A Practical Guide for Agencies

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Jun 3

Web Tools I Actually Use: Finance, Subs, and Games

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Jun 3

Four Useful Web Tools Worth Bookmarking in 2026

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Jun 3

Nine Roblox Game Guides for Codes, Coins, and Strategy

#roblox #gaming #guides #codes

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Jun 3

Best Roblox Game Guides for June 2026

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Jun 2

How I stopped guessing which AI coding tool to pay for

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Jun 2

A month of switching between Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.4 for actual work

#ai #programming #productivity #devtools

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May 30

My Actual Stack in 2026: AI Scheduling, HK Trading Research, and Roblox Guides

#ai #productivity #tools #webdev

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May 28

9 Roblox Game Guides Worth Bookmarking in 2026

#robloxgaming

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May 28

9 Roblox Game 9 Roblox Game Guides Worth Bookmarking in 2026Guides Worth Bookmarking in 2026

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May 26

3 Free Roblox Game Guides Worth Bookmarking in 2026

#robloxgamingtutorial

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May 25

3 Free Roblox Game Guides Worth Bookmarking in 2026

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May 25

I Built Niche Guide Sites for 10 Roblox Games and Tracked the Traffic — Here's What the Data Showed

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May 24

I Reverse-Engineered a Roblox Spin Wheel's Drop Rates (and the Math Was Not Reassuring)

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May 22

GPT-5 from a Developer's Perspective: API Changes, Costs, and When to Upgrade

#openai #ai #webdev #productivity

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May 21

Gemini Spark vs Claude MCP: What Changed for Solo Founders at I/O 2026

#ai #productivity #googleio #agents

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May 20

I Finally Hit Wave 100 in Survive Zombie Arena — The Wave Calculator Exposed My Perk Mistakes

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May 19

I Spent 30 Days Switching From Cursor to Windsurf. Here's What Actually Changed.

#ai #productivity #programming #tooling

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May 19

Universal Tower Defense X: 8 Tower Combos I Tested Across 25 Early Gamesgaming,roblox,gamedev,strategy,

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May 19

Why Most AI SOP Generators Fail at the Capture Step (And What Good Actually Looks Like)

#productivity #documentation #workflow

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May 18

I Tracked 6 Hong Kong Brokers' Real Trade Costs for 30 Days — Here's What Futu, Moomoo, and IBKR Actually Charged

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May 18

Quick Test Article

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May 18

Test Title for Inspection

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May 18

Building a Steal a Brainrot value calculator that doesn't lie about Cash/min

#gamedevjavascriptwebdevroblox

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May 17

I Tracked 350 Brawl RNG Pulls to Map the Actual Drop Distribution

#gamingrobloxdatatechnology

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May 17

My Dog's Rash Finally Has an Explanation — I Used an AI Photo Tool to Figure It Out

#petsaitechnologyhealth

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May 17

Maple Hospital Roblox role guide — I tracked XP across every role to see which actually levels you fastest

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