Notes from a solo builder shipping AI tools for authors.
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3 products live · 1 building in public · 11 posts in the last 30 days · last shipped Jun 22
The workshop
Currently building
Drippery
Live MVP
Email drip series for indie writers. Plain HTML, no bloat.
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Archive Concierge
Live
An AI librarian for your blog archive. Surfaces the right posts for the right reader.
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Subhook
Public beta
Inbound email orchestration for writers who outgrew Zapier.
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Reel Pipeline
Launching July 2026 · Gumroad
Turn your Substack or Medium article into a 9:16 AI reel. Local-first, your stack, your GPU.
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Latest writing
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Jun 22, 2026 · Substack$0 AI Reels on a 12GB GPU
Wan 2.2 + Lightning LoRA dropped my per-scene render from 50 minutes to 5:37 — here's the swap.
Jun 19, 2026 · MediumKen Burns Is the Cheapest Motion in My Reels
Three flat SVG layers, one FFmpeg zoom, and no AI video in sight.
Jun 18, 2026 · SubstackSame 26 Views. One Reached 3× More Strangers.
I posted the same idea as text and as video. Only one of them left my bubble.
About
One person, a workshop of products, building in public.
I'm Daniel Rusnok — a software engineer for the last decade. The last few months I've been shipping side-tools after my day job. Drippery and Archive Concierge are live; Subhook is in public beta; Reel Pipeline (my first paid kit, coming to Gumroad) is building in public. Each one started because I saw a problem and wanted to solve it my own way.
Workshop stack: Next.js 16, Drizzle, Postgres, Tailwind v4, deployed on Fly.io. Every product here is built AI-first — Claude Code with custom skills, hooks, and mem0 do the heavy lifting, and the Anthropic SDK powers what the apps need at runtime.
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