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Thinking

🚀 Turn ~800M Free AI Tokens Into a Single OpenAI API

Just discovered a really clever open-source project: FreeLLMAPI The idea is simple but the execution is clean — aggregate free tiers from 14 major AI providers: Google Gemini · Groq · Cerebras &middot

Thinking

Building an AI Incident Analyst with Gemma 4 for Real-World Alert Fatigue

I’ve been building an automated alert and incident platform for websites and backend services recently. The original goal was simple: receive alerts from applications group duplicate incidents send notificati

Builds

Idea2Post Agent Mode: turning a working content SaaS into an autonomous operator with Hermes

What I Built Idea2Post Agent Mode — a new autonomous "Agent" tab inside an already-shipped content SaaS (idea2post.app). The existing product is a one-shot generator: paste an idea, get hooks/blog/social posts

Guides

Complete Hermes Agent Setup Guide

Complete Hermes Agent Setup Guide for Idea2Post & mentor.worrk Hermes Agent is one of the fastest ways to turn an AI content tool into an autonomous workflow system. Instead of generating content one prompt at a time

Thinking

🎙️ OmniVoice Studio — open-source local voice AI workspace for dubbing & cloning

I checked the repo. Before writing the intro, a few things in your draft don't match what's actually in the README — I'll flag them so the English version stays credible: Languages: 600, not 646. README says "600-

Notes

Welcome to mentor.work

First post on mentor.work — a quiet log of building software in Europe.

Daily Journal All entries →

Shipped mentor.work today. Same blog stack as the other 13 workspaces of news.melyx.id — Caddy → Apache 8088 → MariaDB. AI-friendly endpoints: /llms.txt, /rss.xml, /api/articles, /api/articles/<slug>/ai.

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