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We got 50 paid users, then learned that building the tool wasn’t enough

We gained 100 users this month. Most of them will never pay us a cent

We started with folders. The deeper problem was keeping work reusable

What held up when I tested 13 X accounts one by one

We built a local video workspace because our agent could generate clips but could not edit them

I posted my browser MOBA shooter to 5 subreddits and got 3 upvotes. Then I gave it a map editor.

I built 26 MCP servers in 2 days. Here's what I learned about x402 monetization.

28 days of SEO data, and the number that actually matters isn't traffic

I built a product to test whether my own SDK was actually good enough

Day 1 of building a harness for long-running AI agents

I can't read code. Here's how I still catch bugs before they ship.

Took the "go find where the question is already being asked" advice literally. Here's what happened.

I generated 100+ articles with AI and got 0 traffic. So I built a tool to fix SEO hallucinations.

I built a tiny AI widget that lets websites answer questions from their own content

I read about 60 indie launch pages this month. The same 12 invisible bugs kept coming back

Your AI Is Smart Enough. Does It Know When to Stop?

I built a browser extension for the thing that was eating my day

I launched SubPulse with 0 users. Here's what happened after 90 days

We turned off paid ads. Daily sign-ups fell about 90% within two days. Here's what we're trying instead.

Scope creep shows up on the invoice