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Max Li

AI Engineer & Founder · Singapore

Engineer and builder with 16+ years shipping web products end to end. I spent 12 years scaling Ahrefs' frontend (used by millions), and now build AI products solo from concept to paying users. I'm on a Vibe Code to Glory journey — shipping 24 revenue-ready apps in 12 months.

Writing

Aug 29, 2026

Spec-Driven Development: Maybe Developers Are Not Coders Anymore↗Recently I have been changing quite a lot of things in the way I code. I slowly moved a lot of my work from Claude Code to Pi. I started using Herdr instead of my usual tmux setup, mainly because I like having multiple coding agents running in different panels and being able to clearly

Aug 27, 2026

I’m Using Herdr Instead of tmux Now↗

I’ve been a tmux user for quite a while. More specifically, I normally use tmux together with Oh My Tmux, and honestly, it works perfectly fine. It is fast, stable, lightweight, and does almost everything I need from a terminal multiplexer. But recently, I started using Herdr instead. And strangely enough, I don’t really have

Aug 21, 2026

Why I’m Slowly Ditching Claude Code for Pi↗I’ve been using Claude Code quite heavily for coding, and to be clear: I still think it’s a very good tool. But recently I noticed something. I’m opening Claude Code less and less. And instead, I’ve slowly been moving more of my daily coding work to Pi. This wasn’t really a planned migration. I didn’t

Aug 04, 2026

Be Like Morgan – A story about work, laziness, AI, and knowing when to let go↗Morgan was lazy. There was no point pretending otherwise. He hated waking up early. He hated meetings, especially meetings where eight people spent an hour discussing something two people could have settled in five minutes. He hated filling in forms. He hated copying numbers from one spreadsheet into another. Most of all, Morgan hated doing

May 22, 2026

You’re Using Claude Code Wrong (If You Aren’t Using Vim Mode)↗

Welcome back to maxlibin.com. If you’ve been spending any time with Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI, you already know it is an incredible tool. Having an AI agent live directly in your terminal, capable of navigating your codebase, running tests, and executing commands, is a massive leap forward for developer productivity. But I’m going to be

Mar 04, 2026

Why I Moved My AI Agent from Cloudflare to Hetzner (and Saved $30/mo)↗A few weeks ago, I shared a guide on how to run OpenClaw on Cloudflare for what I thought would be a flat $5/month. While the "serverless" promise is enticing, three weeks of real-world usage taught me a hard lesson about hidden costs and rate limits. If you are looking for a high-performance AI agent

Feb 11, 2026

How to Run Your Own AI Agent on Cloudflare for $5 (No Servers Required)↗Let’s be real: paying $20/month for every AI tool adds up fast. But what if you could run your own powerful, personalized AI assistant for just $5 a month? That’s exactly what OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) allows you to do. It’s an open-source AI agent that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers. It’s fast, it’s private, and

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Projects

Web

AI Banana Flow↗ — AI Image Generation

Web

Tulsk↗ — AI Project Management

Web

SG Passport Photo↗ — Utility

iOS

MyPhotoAI↗ — Photography

iOS

Interior AI: Room Designer↗ — Design

Experience

2014 — 2026

Ahrefs — Frontend Software Engineer

2012 — 2014

Tangoshark — Frontend Developer

2008 — 2012

Earlier roles — Frontend & Web Development

Education

2017 — 2018

React Nanodegree — Udacity

2006 — 2008

Adv. Diploma, Multimedia Design — First Media Design School

Contact

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GitHub

LinkedIn

Email

me@maxlibin.com↗