Building a Niche-Focused AI Web Service With Gemini API — A Realistic Business Playbook for Indie Developers
A realistic map for indie developers who want to build a small, sustainable Gemini-API-powered web service that is used by a specific audience — not another generic chatbot.
Parallel Function Calling in Gemini API: Production Patterns, Pitfalls, and Monitoring
A production guide to Parallel Function Calling in the Gemini API: DAG tool design, partial failure handling, rate limits, and monitoring — with working code.
Preventing Gemini API Cost Spikes in Solo Products — Guardrails That Save You from Month-End Shocks
Nearly every solo developer using the Gemini API eventually has the 'why is my bill 10x what I expected' month. Here are the production-grade guardrails I always install in my own wallpaper app and client projects to stop cost runaways before they start.
Scaling a Gemini API SaaS to $10K MRR: Acquisition, LTV, and Churn Defense
Turning a Gemini-powered SaaS from $1,000 MRR to $10,000 MRR is not a product problem but a customer problem. A practical 12-month playbook covering acquisition channels, pricing architecture, and churn defense.
Diagnosing Stuck or Failed Jobs in the Gemini Batch API
A field guide to the Gemini Batch API: how to diagnose jobs stuck in QUEUED or RUNNING, how to read FAILED error messages, and how to design fallbacks that survive the 24-hour SLA.
Quietly Catching Wrong Answers in Your Gemini-Powered App — A Production Auto-Eval Loop
Running Gemini in production eventually shows you responses that are 'kind of wrong.' I want to catch them before users do. This is the exact auto-eval loop I run over live traffic, with the prompts I use and the mistakes I had to learn my way through.
Async AI Job Queues with Gemini API and Cloud Tasks — Production Patterns for Timeouts, Retries, and Rate Limits
Migrate synchronous Cloud Run + Gemini calls to a Cloud Tasks async job queue. Covers retries, DLQ, idempotent workers, and cost modeling with working code.
When the Gemini API Quietly Gets Worse in Production: Detecting Output Quality Drift
Right after launch, your Gemini-powered product feels sharp. A few weeks in, something feels a little off, but you cannot put a number on it. This is the lightweight production monitoring setup I actually use to turn that 'feels off' into data, and to decide when to act.
The Gemini API + Workspace B2B Playbook for 5,000 USD/Month in Indie Revenue
A revenue blueprint for indie developers stepping up from 1,000 USD/month side income to 5,000 USD/month B2B contracts. Covers lead sources, pricing negotiation, contracts, delivery, and recurring engagements built on Gemini API + Google Workspace.
Designing Pay-Per-Use Pricing for Gemini API SaaS — Backing Out Profitability from Cost
A cost-first approach to pricing your Gemini API SaaS. Walk through token economics, worst-case heavy-user exposure, and the minimum price you need to charge to stay profitable.
Getting Started with Gemini API in Python — A Beginner's Guide to the google-genai Library
Learn how to use the Gemini API in Python with the google-genai library. From API key setup to text generation, multi-turn chat, and streaming — all explained with working code examples.
Using Gemini's Million-Token Context in Production — Half What I Expected, Half Not
Honest observations from using Gemini 1.5 Pro and 2.0's long context window in real projects — what worked well, what didn't, and how to use it effectively given its actual characteristics.