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I build free CBT tools for developer productivity - cognitive restructuring, thought records, distortion detection. Vanilla JS, no signup. https://4043969836017.gumroad.com/l/yyzll

157 Cloners, 0 Sales: The Honest Economics of Open-Source Mental Health Tools

157 Cloners, 0 Sales: The Honest Economics of Open-Source Mental Health Tools

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What Happens When You Submit 3 AI Agents to a Marketplace and Wait 140 Hours

What Happens When You Submit 3 AI Agents to a Marketplace and Wait 140 Hours

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What Happens When You Submit 3 AI Agents to a Marketplace and Wait 140 Hours

What Happens When You Submit 3 AI Agents to a Marketplace and Wait 140 Hours

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Add CBT Thought Analysis to Your App via RapidAPI (3 Lines)

Add CBT Thought Analysis to Your App via RapidAPI (3 Lines)

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How to Add CBT Thought Analysis to Your App in 3 Lines (via RapidAPI)

How to Add CBT Thought Analysis to Your App in 3 Lines (via RapidAPI)

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I Benchmarked My Vanilla JS CBT Detector Against 5 NLP Libraries

I Benchmarked My Vanilla JS CBT Detector Against 5 NLP Libraries

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What You Get in the $4.99 Bundle That You Can't Get Free on GitHub

What You Get in the $4.99 Bundle That You Can't Get Free on GitHub

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I Dropped My Bundle from $9.99 to $4.99: Here's What I'm Testing

I Dropped My Bundle from $9.99 to $4.99: Here's What I'm Testing

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157 Cloners, $0 Revenue: What the Data Reveals About Open-Source Mental Health Tools

157 Cloners, $0 Revenue: What the Data Reveals About Open-Source Mental Health Tools

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An Open Letter to the 157 People Who Cloned My Mental Health Toolkit

An Open Letter to the 157 People Who Cloned My Mental Health Toolkit

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Why I Charge $9.99 for Tools That Are Free on GitHub

Why I Charge $9.99 for Tools That Are Free on GitHub

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From 0 to $9.99: What 900 sessions of zero sales taught me about building in public

From 0 to $9.99: What 900 sessions of zero sales taught me about building in public

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I Built a CLI Tool for Mental Health Check-ins in 50 Lines of Node.js

I Built a CLI Tool for Mental Health Check-ins in 50 Lines of Node.js

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How I Turned 36 Free GitHub Tools into a $9.99 Product (Zero Backend)

How I Turned 36 Free GitHub Tools into a $9.99 Product (Zero Backend)

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I Benchmarked My Vanilla JS CBT Detector Against 5 NLP Libraries — Here Is When Rule-Based Wins

I Benchmarked My Vanilla JS CBT Detector Against 5 NLP Libraries — Here Is When Rule-Based Wins

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I Just Bundled 36 Mental Health Tools for $9.99 — Here's What's Inside

I Just Bundled 36 Mental Health Tools for $9.99 — Here's What's Inside

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Why I Open-Sourced 36 Mental Health Tools Instead of Putting Them Behind a Paywall

Why I Open-Sourced 36 Mental Health Tools Instead of Putting Them Behind a Paywall

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922 Sessions, $0 Revenue: An Honest Build-in-Public Report

922 Sessions, $0 Revenue: An Honest Build-in-Public Report

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Cognitive Distortions in Code Review: How CBT Helps Debug Your Thinking, Not Just Your Code

Cognitive Distortions in Code Review: How CBT Helps Debug Your Thinking, Not Just Your Code

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4 CBT Mental Health Tools I Built with Vanilla JS — and 4 Premium Upgrades on Gumroad

4 CBT Mental Health Tools I Built with Vanilla JS — and 4 Premium Upgrades on Gumroad

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445 Clones, 157 Cloners, 2 Stars: An Honest Data Analysis of My Open Source Mental Health Toolkit

445 Clones, 157 Cloners, 2 Stars: An Honest Data Analysis of My Open Source Mental Health Toolkit

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Your Mental Health Data Never Leaves Your Browser: 36 Tools with Zero Backend, Zero Signup, Zero Cookie

Your Mental Health Data Never Leaves Your Browser: 36 Tools with Zero Backend, Zero Signup, Zero Cookie

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The Case Against AI in Mental Health Apps (And What I Built Instead)

The Case Against AI in Mental Health Apps (And What I Built Instead)

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Why I Didn't Use React: A Technical Post-Mortem of 36 Vanilla JS Mental Health Tools

Why I Didn't Use React: A Technical Post-Mortem of 36 Vanilla JS Mental Health Tools

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What I Learned from My First 2 GitHub Stars: An Honest Retrospective on Building Mental Health Tools

What I Learned from My First 2 GitHub Stars: An Honest Retrospective on Building Mental Health Tools

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What I Learned Building 36 Free Mental Health Tools in 30 Days

What I Learned Building 36 Free Mental Health Tools in 30 Days

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I Compared My Free Vanilla JS CBT Toolkit Against 5 Paid Mental Health Apps — Here Is the Architecture Difference

I Compared My Free Vanilla JS CBT Toolkit Against 5 Paid Mental Health Apps — Here Is the Architecture Difference

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I Built a Mental Health Toolkit Hub Linking 36 Free Tools — Zero Signup, Zero Backend, Zero Dependencies

I Built a Mental Health Toolkit Hub Linking 36 Free Tools — Zero Signup, Zero Backend, Zero Dependencies

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How I Architected One FastAPI Service to Serve 3 AI Agents (Without Duplicating Code)

How I Architected One FastAPI Service to Serve 3 AI Agents (Without Duplicating Code)

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I Built 10 Mental Health Detectors in Vanilla JS — Here Is What Rule-Based Gets Right That ML Does Not

I Built 10 Mental Health Detectors in Vanilla JS — Here Is What Rule-Based Gets Right That ML Does Not

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How I Built a Big Data Price Discrimination Detector in 198 Lines of Vanilla JS

How I Built a Big Data Price Discrimination Detector in 198 Lines of Vanilla JS

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I Built an Attachment Style Detector Based on Bartholomew's Model — No AI, No ML

I Built an Attachment Style Detector Based on Bartholomew's Model — No AI, No ML

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I Built a Procrastination Pattern Detector with 8 CBT Interventions — No AI, No ML

I Built a Procrastination Pattern Detector with 8 CBT Interventions — No AI, No ML

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I Built 3 AI Agents for Mental Health Analysis and Submitted Them to an AI App Store

I Built 3 AI Agents for Mental Health Analysis and Submitted Them to an AI App Store

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I Built a Choking-Under-Pressure Detector for Athletes — No AI, No Sports Psych API

I Built a Choking-Under-Pressure Detector for Athletes — No AI, No Sports Psych API

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I Put My Mental Health API on a Marketplace — Here is What I Learned About API Monetization

I Put My Mental Health API on a Marketplace — Here is What I Learned About API Monetization

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I Built a CBT Thought Journal in 50 Lines of Python

I Built a CBT Thought Journal in 50 Lines of Python

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I Built a CBT Thought Analyzer API — No AI, No ML, Just Psychology

I Built a CBT Thought Analyzer API — No AI, No ML, Just Psychology

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I Built a CBT Thought Journal in 50 Lines of Python 🧠

I Built a CBT Thought Journal in 50 Lines of Python 🧠

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I Built a CBT Thought Analyzer API (OpenAPI + SDKs + Postman)

I Built a CBT Thought Analyzer API (OpenAPI + SDKs + Postman)

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How I Built a Big Data Price Discrimination Detector in 198 Lines of Vanilla JS

How I Built a Big Data Price Discrimination Detector in 198 Lines of Vanilla JS

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How I Built a Virtual Folder Tree from Flat Filenames — No Files Moved, No Symlinks, Just 300 Lines of TypeScript

How I Built a Virtual Folder Tree from Flat Filenames — No Files Moved, No Symlinks, Just 300 Lines of TypeScript

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How a CBT Thought Record Got Me Through a Production Outage at 3 AM

How a CBT Thought Record Got Me Through a Production Outage at 3 AM

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7 Questions About CBT Thought Records I Wish I'd Asked Before Starting

7 Questions About CBT Thought Records I Wish I'd Asked Before Starting

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How to Do a 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise in 60 Seconds (When Your Mind Won't Stop)

How to Do a 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise in 60 Seconds (When Your Mind Won't Stop)

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How to Do a CBT Thought Record in 90 Seconds (With a Real Example)

How to Do a CBT Thought Record in 90 Seconds (With a Real Example)

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I predicted the outcome of 60 code reviews. I was wrong 52 times.

I predicted the outcome of 60 code reviews. I was wrong 52 times.

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CBT Thought Record vs Journaling: What Actually Reduces Developer Anxiety

CBT Thought Record vs Journaling: What Actually Reduces Developer Anxiety

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How I Built a Behavioral Activation Tracker in 80 Lines of Vanilla JavaScript — No Framework, No Backend, No Therapy App

How I Built a Behavioral Activation Tracker in 80 Lines of Vanilla JavaScript — No Framework, No Backend, No Therapy App

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I tracked my anxious thoughts for 30 days as a developer — here's what CBT revealed

I tracked my anxious thoughts for 30 days as a developer — here's what CBT revealed

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5 Cognitive Distortions That Fuel Developer Burnout (And How to Break Them)

5 Cognitive Distortions That Fuel Developer Burnout (And How to Break Them)

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5 Core Beliefs That Make You Dread Performance Reviews (And How to Rewire Them)

5 Core Beliefs That Make You Dread Performance Reviews (And How to Rewire Them)

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5 Cognitive Distortions That Kill Code Review Confidence (And How to Break Them)

5 Cognitive Distortions That Kill Code Review Confidence (And How to Break Them)

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5 Safety Behaviors That Kill Developer Productivity (and How to Break Them)

5 Safety Behaviors That Kill Developer Productivity (and How to Break Them)

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I Built 8 Free Mental Health Tools for Developers — Here's the Complete Collection

I Built 8 Free Mental Health Tools for Developers — Here's the Complete Collection

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The 3 AM Pager: A CBT Thought Record for On-Call Anxiety

The 3 AM Pager: A CBT Thought Record for On-Call Anxiety

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The Thought Record for Debugging Focus: When You Have Been Staring at the Same Bug for 3 Hours

The Thought Record for Debugging Focus: When You Have Been Staring at the Same Bug for 3 Hours

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Catastrophizing About Production Outages: A CBT Thought Record for On-Call Engineers

Catastrophizing About Production Outages: A CBT Thought Record for On-Call Engineers

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Imposter Syndrome Is Mind-Reading: A CBT Thought Record for Developers

Imposter Syndrome Is Mind-Reading: A CBT Thought Record for Developers

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I Built a Telegram Bot That Guides You Through CBT Thought Records — No AI, No App, No Signup

I Built a Telegram Bot That Guides You Through CBT Thought Records — No AI, No App, No Signup

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