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Shipped a manual net-worth app (no bank sync) — what UX friction would you expect?

Everyone's adding llms.txt. Almost nothing is reading it.

I built this for myself. It worked, so I'm testing it inside PlanMoon.

We swept 30 markets and kept 93 of 3430 candidates. Here is what the 2.7% actually taught me.

I posted a boring intro in a 456k-person community. One line got all the reaction

What Makes You Trust a New SaaS Product?

Everyone's adding llms.txt. Almost nothing is reading it.

I built a small tool for getting code into AI. I abandoned it after 3 sales, now it has 12.

I built a local-first content operator because social AI tools wanted too much access

The most repeated stat in trigger-based selling has no source, and the real research says the opposite

I lost 82% of my traffic while building my product.

I think AI agents have an authority problem we're treating as a permissions problem

How are you getting your first real users for your SaaS or AI product?

I built FreshCtx to stop stale agent actions. Then I found a harder failure: the action still happened.

I got tired of writing scripts just to pass API tokens, so I built a visual chainer.

Claude ate my product's main feature. I kept the part it can't eat.

I built a free site speed report that names the slow file. Pro Watch ($19/mo) just went live.

I Paid for 2,150 Survey Responses. Then I Threw 441 of Them Away.

Distribution is the bit I always skip, so I built a free tool for it

A user emailed me "why can I see everyone else's data" — that's when I stopped rebuilding SaaS infra from scratch