# Emanuele Di Pietro Blog

Essays by Emanuele Di Pietro on indie hacking, iOS and Swift, AI developer tools, SaaS launches, product building, and personal growth.

- [Losing My Job Was the Best Thing That Happened to Me](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/losing-job-blessing-disguise.md): How losing my first job led to freedom, self-discovery, and the courage to build my own path in tech.

- [You Are Not as Productive as You Think You Are](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/you-are-not-as-productive-as-you-think.md): We spend hours at our desks watching agents work and call it productivity. It isn't. Here's why the AI era forces us to redefine what work actually means.

- [How Do I Get Things Done While I Sleep - My Loop Workflow](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/loop-workflow-while-i-sleep.md): How I started using Codex loops, worktrees, review threads, and GitHub bots to fix PRs overnight without mixing branches and wake up to finished work.

- [The App That Changed My Life in 1 Month: Remodex — The Codex for iOS](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/how-i-built-remodex.md): The story of Remodex: from a side project called Phodex to shipping the first Codex iOS app on the AppStore in one night, and what I gained even though I knew it wouldn't last.

- [I Stopped Listening to Music for a Week. Here's What Happened to My Brain](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/no-music-week.md): For one week, I removed music from my daily routine to see what silence would do. The result was less mental fog, more presence, and unexpected creativity.

- [I Built ManyLinks in 11 Days to Fix My Broken Bookmark System](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/manylinks-launch-story.md): I was saving links everywhere and finding none of them when I needed them. So I built ManyLinks: an AI-powered app to save, organize, and rediscover links fast.

- [Being a Developer in 2026: Drowning in FOMO](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/developer-fomo-ai-tools-2026.md): New AI tools drop every day. Claude Code, Cowork, ClawdBot, Remotion, OpenCode... How do you keep up without burning out?

- [My First SaaS Failed. Here's What I Learned (And Why I'm Making It Free)](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/first-saas-failure-lessons.md): The story of DP's Templates: how I spent months building a SaaS that got zero users, what went wrong, and the lessons I learned from failure.

- [9 iOS Apps in 2 Years: What I'd Do Differently](https://www.emanueledipietro.com/blog/9-ios-apps-2-years-lessons.md): Lessons learned building multiple iOS apps - from choosing native over cross-platform to mastering ASO and shipping MVPs faster.