Developer Tools

Daily web games are a proven, repeatable niche (4 HN front-pagers this month) that fits your game-design skills perfectly; the skill-pack gold rush (49K-star markdown files!) is wide open for your narrative/TTRPG expertise; and OpenMontage + Publora + Agent-Reach just made a fully automated marketing engine real.

AI agent infrastructure explodes while cloneable SaaS niches emerge: website change monitoring with AI summaries, legal document explainers, and AI-powered design asset generators all present clear paths to indie revenue.

The agent harness ecosystem exploded this week with 100K+ star skills frameworks and security tools, Google launched AI-native design with a portable DESIGN.md format, and ultra-lightweight TTS models that run on CPU created new product possibilities for indie builders.