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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

Oct 23, 2026

The Maintenance Tax: Shipping 24 Apps in 12 Months Was the Easy Part↗Everyone celebrates the launch. Nobody talks about the month after. After 16 apps and 47,000 lines of AI-generated code, here's what the Vibe Code to Glory challenge taught me about the maintenance tax — and the kill criteria that kept my portfolio from collapsing under its own weight.

Oct 16, 2026

Harness Engineering — The Missing Discipline Every Solo AI-Founder Needs↗Mitchell Hashimoto coined 'harness engineering' in February 2026 — and it changed how I build. After shipping 24 apps solo in 12 months, here's why this discipline matters more for solo founders than for anyone else.

Oct 14, 2026

I've Shipped 16 AI-Coded Apps This Year. Here's What Breaks in Production↗I'm 16 apps into my Vibe Code to Glory challenge — shipping 24 revenue-ready apps solo in 12 months. Three consistent failure modes have emerged in every AI-generated codebase. Here's what breaks, and why 16 years of experience matters more than ever.

Oct 12, 2026

16 Apps, Zero QA Team: How I Test AI-Generated Code in Production↗16 apps, roughly 47,000 lines of AI-generated code, and zero QA team. Here is the testing strategy I built, broke, and rebuilt over ten months of shipping vibe-coded apps to production — smoke tests, monitoring, canary users, and the tests that died along the way.

Oct 10, 2026

I Launched Zhouyi Master AI, an I Ching App for Reflection↗

Zhouyi Master AI is my new iOS app for casting I Ching hexagrams, reading all 64 with their traditional texts, and talking a situation through with an AI guide.

Oct 05, 2026

Shipping an iOS App in the Age of AI Slop: What I Learned Building homeworkAI for Singapore's PSLE Students↗557,000 new apps hit the App Store last year — a 24% surge driven by AI-assisted development. I shipped homeworkAI into that noise. Here is what it actually took to build, launch, and find users for a niche iOS app as a solo developer in 2026.

Sep 29, 2026

Running Multiple AI Coding Agents? Give Them Separate Git Worktrees↗A practical Git worktree setup for running multiple AI coding agents, keeping changes separate, and reviewing their work before merging.

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Projects

Web

AI Banana Flow↗ — AI Image Generation

Web

Tulsk↗ — AI Agent

Web

SG Passport Photo↗ — Utility

iOS

HomeworkAI: PSLE Tutor↗ — Education

iOS

Interior AI: Room Designer↗ — Design

iOS

Zhouyi Master AI↗ — Reference

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↗