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A new resource called TeardownHQ is making noise in the indie founder community. It promises something rare: verified growth playbooks for small startups, pulling revenue figures from real signals rather than the self-reported screenshots that usually pass for data. Think of it as a more rigorous, software-focused answer to what Starter Story built for ecommerce.
On the security front, a tool called NPM-Scan is flagging six distinct supply chain attack campaigns active as of June twenty twenty-six. Supply chain vulnerabilities have quietly become one of the most consequential threats in software development, and open source scanning tools like this one represent the community's ongoing effort to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated bad actors targeting developer infrastructure.
And for the solo developers wondering whether building on Rails still makes financial sense, a new breakdown at Rails Reviews lays out exactly what it costs to run a one-app software-as-a-service business each month. Infrastructure, tooling, third-party services — the numbers offer a grounded reality check for anyone romanticizing the lean indie hacker lifestyle before they've actually run the math.
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