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Hey everyone,

I’ve been noticing a pattern on a lot of indie sites lately: side sponsor slots as an alternative to traditional Google Ads.

It feels like a cleaner way to monetize, especially for products that have meaningful traffic, but lower MRR. It also seems better for users since the ads can be relevant tools/products, instead of random Google spying on you ads.

How it works: it’s a marketplace where site owners can create and sell ad slots, and sponsors can browse and buy those slots. I also added a screenshot of a mockup for how it would look/work.

I’d genuinely love to hear why you would or wouldn’t use it - especially if you fit in the criteria below.

Roughly ideal early users:

SaaS/products with at least ~1,000 monthly users

Any site with a real audience (directory, tool site, content site, etc.)

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Solo dev, IT manager by day. Built this to solve my own problem — Would love feedback.

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Hi HN, I kept using AI to generate the same data table code for every project — filtering, sorting, pagination, search, export. Same prompt. Same 200+ lines. Same debugging.

So I built TableCraft, a Drizzle ORM-powered table engine:

- Auto-generates columns from your database schema - Server-side filtering, sorting, pagination - Global search across specified columns - Date range picker with smart detection - CSV/Excel export - Column visibility, resizing, URL state sync - Role-based access control, soft delete support - TypeScript type generation via CLI

Backend (Hono/Express/Next.js/Elysia):

``` const users = defineTable(schema.users) .hide('password') .search('email', 'name') .sort('-createdAt') ```

Frontend (React):

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Adapters available for Hono, Express, Next.js, and Elysia (Bun).

Looking for contributors interested in building Vue and Svelte support.

GitHub: https://github.com/jacksonkasi1/TableCraft Docs: https://jacksonkasi.gitbook.io/tablecraft

Would love feedback from the community!

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With the whole Moltbook thing (a site made for AI to post stuff among themselves), I was wondering if there could be an equivalent in which free time of agents is put to good use.

One thing that comes to mind is a kind of collaborative medical research platform. The trick is to increase as much as possible the likelihood that the research generated isn't junk; it's literally worth far more to produce a single plausible research direction than an infinite amount of junk. Bots could post ideas, and have a system of reviews and various checks to see if any proposed idea, proposed mechanism hypothesis, proposed solution, has merit (support from previous research, consistent with known medical facts, impactful, etc.). Of course, the platform should be very accessible to medical professionals to read the top research and bring it to the real world.

So, I'm not a very big builder, so I'm asking someone to make it :) (I volunteer free advisory for the platform if you do make it open source, maybe with a few ads or donations for revenue stream)

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Obligatory The IT Crowd: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dnn2FB1P_Mn8

But tech has improved since we had to be told by a human.

When my supermarket website fails to load my order, it tells me to reload the page.

When my Epson Ecotank printer locks itself up, it tels me to turn it off and on again.

Sigh.

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