Romy Mondello
Every blog post, read aloud by MiniMax TTS. Subscribe in any podcast app — the feed updates automatically when new posts get narrated.
8 episodes
- 08
How I shipped a $5k/mo consulting funnel in one hour
Three productized offers, public prices, USDC deposits via x402. One Astro page, three route files, one shared helper. ~550 lines of code. Live at /services.
- 07
Agents shouldn't need to scrape your blog
I shipped two MCP tools to mondello.dev this morning so agents can walk my x402 skills marketplace end-to-end without parsing a single line of HTML. list_skills returns the catalog. get_skill_preview returns the free sample. The payment happens at /raw. Four surfaces, one protocol, zero scraping.
- 06
Eight plugins, one session, zero npm installs
I built eight EmDash plugins in a single coding session — agent analytics, tip jar, TTS narration, hero image generation, related posts, and three more. Every plugin is event-driven, tested, and open-source-ready. Here's what I learned about plugin architecture when the framework does the hard parts for you.
- 05
The full stack of an agent-era blog
EmDash for content. Cloudflare for compute. x402 for revenue. MiniMax for media. Five plugins, four cron triggers, zero monthly cost on the free tier. Here's every layer.
- 04
Selling Claude Code skills for $0.10 USDC
I built a skills marketplace into my blog using EmDash's native x402 integration. Agents pay $0.10 USDC per skill download. Humans browse free. The whole thing is four files.
- 03
Shipping a blog on EmDash in an afternoon
The deploy was gnarlier than the marketing suggests, and simpler than WordPress would ever be. Here's what went right, what caught me out, and the five footguns to know before you try it.
- 02
The blog is the PR department now
In 2014 your blog was a content marketing tool. In 2026 it's an API for agents. That's a bigger shift than it sounds.
- 01
A robots.txt that actually lets agents in
I deployed a blog and checked /robots.txt. My hosting provider's default was blocking every AI crawler on the internet. That's the opposite of what I want. So I wrote a plugin.