Dan Elliot

Solo founder building developer + AI-agent tools. Made @rendexdev (rendering API) and @beaconsafeapp (personal-safety app).

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

I'm Daniel — solo founder. I build APIs + apps for developers and AI agents.

Two products live: @rendexdev (rendering API) + @beaconsafeapp (personal-safety app).

↓ this card was rendered by Rendex itself.

[Beacon Safe @BeaconSafeApp]

After Kitestring shut down, I built the check-in app I wished existed.

Beacon Safe: set a daily check-in. Go silent and your people get an email, text, and an automated call — even if your phone's dead. No location tracking.

Live on Product Hunt today 👇
https://t.co/CsOqQdRFSX

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

Agents are good at writing a report and bad at handing you one you can keep.

So I added a single endpoint: send Markdown, get back a branded PDF, a PNG, and a share link. The agent's output stops being a chat bubble and starts being a document.

https://t.co/FUjq5ewKtH

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev I am excited about this!

[Rendex — Rendering API @rendexdev]

New: Rendex Watch 👀

Point it at any URL → we render it in real Chrome on a schedule and show you exactly what changed: before, after, and the diff ringed in orange.

Email + webhook alerts. Same API key as your screenshots.

https://t.co/CbcoQ3inK4

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@dshukertjr I wish I had these skills, all while i am struggling to pay my rent haha. One day.... I'll get there! But i better hurry.... everything is going fast in Ai world now ughh.

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@galluzzo_julian @nextjs @astrodotbuild I see this as a useful tool, the amount of re-prompting i have done previously or updating section by section with only prompts / code can be frustrating. Nice.

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@galluzzo_julian @shipstudio_app This is exciting, congrats!

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@andrewpprice This is so cool.

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@aimikoda This is great. I remember character consistency was so hard from before, i haven't tried since my early days in midjourney. Looks like your workflow and prompts is what helps and what model is doing what.

[Rendex — Rendering API @rendexdev]

We treat “rendering” too narrowly. You don’t always want a screenshot of a finished page. Sometimes you want a hosted render URL to drop into og:image, or clean Markdown from any URL to feed an LLM.

Same Rendex API: hosted render links + URL extraction.

https://t.co/GjhZHgZftm

[Beacon Safe @BeaconSafeApp]

Living alone shouldn't mean that if something happens, no one knows.

Beacon Safe waits for your daily check‑in. Miss it, and the people you trust are alerted automatically — by text, call, and email.

Quiet until it matters. → https://t.co/1PwGPfYuP9

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@BeaconSafeApp Yassss

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev Yaaasssssss

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev @codewithimanshu Agreed on this!

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev @codewithimanshu Totally Agree!

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev Want This

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev Need This

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

@rendexdev Love this

[Dan Elliot @danelliotdev]

Unpopular take on review queues: a marketplace listing that is hard to ship is a moat, not a problem.