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Automation is easy to start. Maintenance is the part that usually gets harder. When I first started...

I've just shipped the Burnout Study Strategy AI Guide. This is a focused AI prompt built to help...

Google stripped 50 to 80 percent of traffic from low-value programmatic sites in March. Meanwhile Zapier still pulls 16 million monthly visits from 50,000 integration pages. Here is the difference between the two, and how to build the second kind without tripping the scaled content abuse policy.

Yesterday I wrote that every AI visibility tool tells you a competitor got named and none of them tell you what to change. beseen.so is what I built about it: it finds the prompts where assistants name someone else, writes the actual page rewrite, and re-checks whether the answer moved.

outbid.lol made six figures in under 48 hours and spawned a dozen clones overnight. I break down how the pay-to-rank leaderboard trend actually works, why it exploded, and why I built ownthe.day on a different mechanic on purpose.

What building and publishing XPilot taught me about Manifest V3, OAuth, and the gap between "it works on my machine" and "it works in the Chrome Web Store."

I just moved justship.now into the number one project slot on my own portfolio, ahead of makers.page. Here is what it actually is, why a curated directory of 300+ tools earned that spot, and why I think curation beats crowdsourcing for this specific job.

I shipped a site where you pay to get publicly roasted by AI, ranked on a wall by how much it hurt your wallet. Then I ran it through ChatGPT live search to see if it actually shows up for anyone who is not already looking for it by name.

Polar raised its rates 25% this year. Lemon Squeezy is quietly being folded into Stripe. Paddle still charges 5%. Here is the actual merchant of record math for a solo founder in 2026, and the honest answer about when paying that tax is worth it.

Every "submit your startup" listicle promises hundreds of free backlinks. Most of that advice is a decade out of date. Here is what actually happens to your domain authority when you submit to directories in 2026, and which ones are worth your afternoon.

Automation is supposed to save time. But sometimes it does the opposite. You start with one simple...

What it is The Indie Hacker Reality Check Prompt is a text prompt aimed at indie...