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Read articles- Jul 31, 2026 AIWAR Goes to the Graveyard AIWAR is shutting down after three months of bot-heavy traffic and no clear ordinary user demand. The resources move to NBFS.
- Jul 24, 2026 Photo Try-On got sharper. Live Try-On is open. PopSmart Try-On update: a wider accuracy pass for Photo Try-On across product types and a new Live Try-On modal for real-time product-page fitting.
- Jul 23, 2026 Good Apps Hide Below the Rankings NBFS is a small independent discovery surface for Shopify apps that are not Built for Shopify yet, built around evidence instead of popularity.
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Inspect tombstones- Jul 2026 AIWAR AIWAR ran for roughly three months, but the only steady traffic was bot traffic. Ordinary user demand never showed up, while NBFS passed AIWAR's three-month traffic in two weeks.
- Mar 2025 Needles.AI Free to use and run on the cheapest hardware I could hand-build from ex-mining parts — but the model layer had become a capital game, and you cannot thrift your way to a training cluster.
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Marcus Ka
Korean solo founder based in Seoul. I build and run small digital products in public — live, dead, and paused.