Building tiny internet projects. Founder of @promptbase and @zonelessdev. Once bought 300 emoji domains from Kazakhstan.

Bristol, England
Joined May 2020
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Experimented with adding an MCP server so you can search PromptBase in ChatGPT, Claude etc. After 1 week: πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ 60 users πŸ”Ž 1,300 searches Pretty tiny but users who find it seem to use it a lot
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Replying to @xer0c
yes, it got some ideas from the customer support agent who has access to emails etc.
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A few nights ago I instructed an AI agent to ship one secret feature to PromptBase at 4am and deploy it whilst I was asleep - it just had to benefit the site in some way. I wanted to see what this felt like - which sounds really weird - I know. It decided to ship a feature that alerts users before their account is about to get timed out from too many declined submissions - a pretty useful idea based on a lot of emails from support. It went well, and worked! - waking up and seeing it felt very cool. It was a bit like the AI equivalent of one of those trust experiments where you fall back and someone has to catch you (thankfully I was caught)
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I completely missed the OpenClaw hype - I actually thought it looked kind of dumb at the time. But the past week or so I've been quite enjoying using Grok Bot - which is very similar (and like OpenAI dots I guess). I have a support bot that uses my Gmail to answer emails, an engineer bot that writes code, and a security bot that monitors my Cloudflare and server logs for suspicious things. I’m super intrigued by this as a solo founder/developer as a way to run a "big" looking company from the outside as just one person.
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Ben Stokes (Tiny Projects πŸ’‘) retweeted
400 GitHub stars! ⭐ The payment rails are open and free now. So why is the software built on top of them so closed? Let's change that.
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Ben Stokes (Tiny Projects πŸ’‘) retweeted
Fee comparison: 1000 payouts/month, $50 each β€£ Stripe: $40,500/year β€£ PayPal: $19,500/year β€£ Zoneless: $26/year
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First post in 4 years I’ve been busy bootstrapping PromptBase to 450k+ users But I was burning $9,400/mo in opaque Stripe fees for seller payouts So today I’m launching Zoneless: an open-source clone of Stripe Connect using USDC Identical API, except payouts cost $0.002 I’ve been dogfooding it on PromptBase for 3 months: - 2,200+ sellers onboarded - 1,400+ payouts completed - $9.4k/mo in Stripe fees β†’ ~$5/mo - 73% of sellers chose Zoneless over Stripe
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Replying to @levelsio
Got hit by 1.5k fraudulent transactions from 'jake minas' in PH early May - was super scary especially with the threat of dispute fees. Have been blocking PH using Radar for the past month + other mitigations. Tip: Stripe will refund the attack transaction fees if you email
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Replying to @brightoniant
Been very busy! All good & exciting though - planning to start writing again soon!
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