First 1000

How an Alarm App Got 25 Million Views and 100K Downloads in 30 Days

This past week, I took a little bit of detour after finally putting lazyweb out in the wild to build a small screenshot tool called lazyscreenshots…

Mar 25 • Ali Abouelatta

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Lazyweb is live (finally)

Lazyweb is live.

Mar 18 • Ali Abouelatta

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February 2026

The Case For Humans

AI made building cheap.

Feb 20 • Ali Abouelatta

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January 2026

Don’t solve problems that don’t exist.

We procrastinate. Not because we’re lazy or undisciplined, but because the next step is unclear, and our brains avoid discomfort.

Jan 28 • Ali Abouelatta

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Creating a Sydney Sweeney Deepfake Video

As I continue experimenting with AI to build, design and market lazyweb as solo human with an army of AI agents and tools, I try to spend a lot of time…

Jan 19 • Ali Abouelatta

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Making AI great at frontend

On this journey to build Lazyweb.com the thing that’s been bugging me most was the landing page

Jan 13 • Ali Abouelatta

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Cost of building an MVP (with AI)

In last week’s post, I explained why I took time off from Duolingo to build Lazyweb.com. This one is about the less romantic part: what it actually cost…

Jan 12 • Ali Abouelatta

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I'm sorry

The start of my public journal as a solopreuner vibe building, designing and marketing Lazyweb.com

Jan 7 • Ali Abouelatta

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October 2024

◼️ Don’t invest in dark mode

Dark mode is overhyped!

Oct 21, 2024 • Ali Abouelatta

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August 2024

👵 Use boring sign-up screens

Learnings from Spotify, Nextdoor, Ring and AllTrails sign-up screen redesigns.

Aug 2, 2024 • Ali Abouelatta

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May 2024

👧 About cute copy...

Just don't...

May 22, 2024 • Ali Abouelatta

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Revisit your prior assumptions

This new experiment from Canva got me thinking...

May 13, 2024 • Ali Abouelatta

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