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News
Vercel acquires Better Auth
Hosting behemoth Vercel has acquired yet another company. This time it's Better Auth. The software is going to remain open source but I can forsee a lot of people wanting to move.
https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-acquires-better-auth
Alex West tips
Alex made a million from his Cyberleads project before burning out. He has started working on new ideas and has been writing a lot about his startup journey. Alex has broken down his progress from $1k months to $10k months and beyond - it's all available to read here
Google Search Console adds social accounts
Some interesting changes with Google Search Console here as they are adding the ability to track how your channels like YouTube, TikTok, X and Instragram show up in searches. More details here:
Barry Schwartz
Barcelona coworking meetup starts
A regular Barcelona coworking meetup has started under the Hacka network. It's called Hackalona and as like the other locations, you get a free day of coworking with other devs every Thursday: http://hackalona.com
I made a directory of newsletters
I've been getting into Claude Code recently and made this Astro-based directory of the best newsletters. It's all nicely SEO-optimized and it's free to host on Cloudflare forever!
It's a work in progress so it would be nice to hear what you think. Let me know if you want your newsletter added.
https://worldofnewsletters.com
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