
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:
πββοΈ 60 users
π 1,300 searches
Pretty tiny but users who find it seem to use it a lot
Replying to @xer0c
yes, it got some ideas from the customer support agent who has access to emails etc.
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)
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.
Iβm 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.
Ben Stokes (Tiny Projects π‘) retweeted
400 GitHub stars! β
The payment rails are open and free now.
So why is the software built on top of them so closed?
Let's change that.
Ben Stokes (Tiny Projects π‘) retweeted
Fee comparison: 1000 payouts/month, $50 each
β£ Stripe: $40,500/year
β£ PayPal: $19,500/year
β£ Zoneless: $26/year
Replying to @aviosm @AlexejKirillov
Β£10 from Google Domains
Check it out here π
Website + docs: zoneless.com
Github: github.com/zonelessdev/zonelβ¦
First post in 4 years
Iβve been busy bootstrapping PromptBase to 450k+ users
But I was burning $9,400/mo in opaque Stripe fees for seller payouts
So today Iβm launching Zoneless: an open-source clone of Stripe Connect using USDC
Identical API, except payouts cost $0.002
Iβve 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
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
Replying to @brightoniant
Been very busy! All good & exciting though - planning to start writing again soon!
Replying to @alexwestco
Back soon too!
Replying to @thepatwalls @levelsio
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Replying to @david_teather
Thanks so much David!



