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Modal vs Replicate vs Baseten for Indie Hackers in 2026
Every comparison ranks these three by hourly GPU rate. Run the same workload through all three and the ranking inverts, because idle time is the real bill.
Best AI Coding Agent Security Tools for Indie Hackers in 2026
A Cursor agent deleted a production database in 9 seconds. Here is what actually stops that, in thre...
When to Use a Scraping API vs Building Your Own Scraper
Pieter Levels said he would keep paying $99/mo, then replaced a $249/mo plan with a $1/mo scraper fi...
When to Use LiteLLM Self-Hosted vs a Managed AI Gateway
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all went down on the same morning. A gateway is how you survive that. Wheth...
Best Cron and Scheduled Job Monitoring Tools for Indie Hackers in 2026
Your nightly backup stopped running three weeks ago and nothing alerted you, because nothing errored...
Best Hugging Face Inference Alternatives for Indie Hackers in 2026
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The dedicated endpoint pricing was the weak sp...
LiteLLM vs Portkey vs Cloudflare AI Gateway for Indie Hackers in 2026
Three AI gateways compared at indie scale: self-hosted LiteLLM, Portkey with observability, and Clou...
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