Engineering Blog

What is Good UI/UX? Jakob Nielsen's 10 Usability Heuristics

A deep dive into the 10 general principles for interaction design with practical examples. The bible of UI/UX design.

Building an AI Favicon Generator for Developers: A DALL-E & LLM Case Study

How we built a tool for developers who struggle with design. Sharing our journey of using OpenAI API (DALL-E 3) for generation and GPT-4 for prompt engineering and CLI guidance.

Forget SEO, It's Time for GEO (AI Search Optimization)

Ranking on Google is not enough anymore. Learn how to optimize your content for AI engines like ChatGPT and Claude using GEO strategies and JSON-LD.

Is Supabase Custom Domain Worth $10/mo? (Why You Probably Need It)

Thinking of skipping the $10/mo Custom Domain fee? Think again. From preventing login issues on Safari to improving email deliverability, here is why it is a must-have.

Stop Wasting Money on Supabase Pro: Upgrade to Micro for Free

Are you on the Supabase Pro plan? You might be missing out on free performance. Learn how to double your RAM to Micro instance for $0 extra.

Will Antigravity Replace All Developers? (Spoiler: No)

The truth about AI coding tools, and what developers really need to focus on. Discussing the importance of dynamic debugging and logic ownership.

Top 5 Visual Web Monitoring Tools for 2026 (Free & Paid)

Essential Free Tools Every Developer Needs in 2026

Stop guessing and start verifying for free. From AI-powered Favicon generation to scheduled API testing, here are the tools that save your workflow.

Stop Justifying Your Retainer Fee: The Power of Visual Reporting

Clients ask: 'What did you do this month?' Don't just tell them. Show them 100% uptime and visual stability with automated White Label Reports.

Antigravity Gets Eyes: Visual Pair Programming with AI

A picture is worth a thousand lines of code. Discover how Antigravity's new vision capabilities allow you to communicate bugs and benchmarks instantly.

Monitoring Secure Internal Networks: The Hidden Challenge

How to securely monitor localhost, intranet, and staging environments without VPNs or firewall holes. A guide for modern DevOps.

Why You Need a Private Monitoring Agent: Beyond the Cloud

Beyond the Firewall: How to Monitor Intranets & Localhost Without exposing Ports

Stop using ngrok for monitoring. Introducing SiteSnapshot Agent Mode—the secure way to monitor staging environments, internal tools, and localhost.

Stop Monitoring Noise: How to Track Only What Matters (Region Monitoring)

Why monitoring the full page is a mistake for dynamic sites. Learn how to use Region Monitoring to track specific pricing tables, widgets, or components without false alarms.

Your Designs Are World-Class, So Why Do Clients Leave? (Agency Survival Strategy)

How Lean Agencies generate $1M with a team of 3. Learn to sell the "process" instead of just the visual result, and discover automation strategies using SiteSnapshot.

It’s Not a Dev Tool. It’s a Free CCTV for Your Website

Complex monitoring is over. Meet SiteSnapshot, the free "visual security guard" that anyone can install in 1 second.

Why Every Web Agency Needs an Automated Visual Monitoring Tool in 2026

Stop manually checking 50+ client sites. Discover how automated visual monitoring and white-label reporting can save your agency 20 hours a week and prevent client churn.

Beyond Basic Monitoring: 5 Reasons Why Agencies Choose SiteSnapshot

Uptime checks aren't enough. Discover how Visual Regression Testing, Mobile Scanning, and White-Label Reporting can revolutionize your agency's workflow.

The Best Applitools Alternative in 2026: Why Simplicity Wins

Looking for an Applitools alternative? Discover why nimble teams are switching to SiteSnapshot for affordable, automated visual monitoring without the enterprise bloat.

Visual Testing Doesn't Have to Be a Nightmare

Why setting up complex E2E frameworks for simple monitoring is killing your productivity, and how to fix it.

Stop Hiring More Staff: How One Solo Founder Manages 10 Clients with AI Agents

Maintenance hell is eating your agency's profits. Learn how to cut coding time by 90% with the AI agent 'Antigravity' and achieve flawless deployments with SiteSnapshot to maximize your margins.

The Anti-Roadmap: How We Built SiteSnapshot by Trying to Destroy It

Inspired by Charlie Munger's 'Inversion' mental model. We didn't ask how to make this product succeed. We asked how to make it annoy you—and then did the exact opposite.

The Million-Dollar Dropdown: How a Single CSS Glitch Cost an E-commerce Store Their Q4 Bonus

In e-commerce, conversion is king. But what if your customers literally cannot verify their purchase? A cautionary tale of a hidden 'Add to Cart' confirmation.

How I Fixed a Critical UI Bug in 5 Minutes (And How You Can Leave Work on Time)

Building SiteSnapshot with SiteSnapshot. How dogfooding our own tool caught a broken layout instantly and saved my evening.

The $5,000 Invisible Button: Why Your Ads Are Failing (And It's Not the Copy)

You're spending $100 a minute on ads. But a CSS typo just pushed your 'Buy Now' button off-screen on mobile. The server says 200 OK. Your bank account says otherwise.

Surviving the AI Era: Why Developers Are Becoming 'Architects of Verification'

AI writes code faster than you. The secret to surviving isn't typing faster—it's orchestrating AI tools and automating the quality control with SiteSnapshot.

The Agency Nightmare: Why '200 OK' Is Not Enough

Your unit tests passed, the server is healthy, but the 'Checkout' button is hidden behind a div. How visual regression testing saves client relationships.

How We Built a Scalable Screenshot Service

Learn how SiteSnapshot handles thousands of visual regression tests concurrently using a distributed worker architecture.

Unit Tests Passed, So Why Did the UI Break? The Case for Visual Regression Testing

Your Jest tests are all green, but the 'Submit' button is covered by a z-index error. Here's why you need to move beyond code-based testing.