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Nombra.la finds the shortest domain that's actually free — domain hacks, word-as-TLD, compressed names — with AI that costs nothing to run. Built for the wave of AI builders in Latin America who can ship a product in a weekend and then lose a week to naming it.
Read more →I don't speak Yucatec Maya. In one evening at the Kiro workshop at AWS México, I still shipped a Sudoku that does. The interface reads in Màaya t'àan, the digits are drawn as Maya dot-and-bar numerals, and a screen reader counts jun, ka', óox instead of one, two, three. Nahuatl and Quechua arrived in the same commit, each with its own number words for accessibility. Before AI coding agents, a solo developer couldn't do this in an evening. It meant finding translators, researching a numeral system and designing the glyphs before touching any game logic. With Kiro and Claude, it was one commit, merged six minutes before the 8 PM close. The strings still need a native speaker's review. What changed is that one developer can now get that far in one evening.
Read more →Modern engineering has entered a new era. With tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity, the speed at which experienced engineers can design and ship useful tools has increased dramatically. What once took days or weeks can now be built in hours.
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