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I shipped a "forgiving" retention streak: here's the mechanic and why

I killed per-seat pricing on my SaaS. Here's the reasoning.

What decides a post's reach is mostly the first hour, not the writing

LinkedIn growth for solo founders: the four levers that actually worked

I stopped cross-posting identical text. Here's the composer change that fixed it.

Consistency stopped being a willpower problem the moment I treated it as a logistics one

I cut the first line of every post I write. It almost always helps.

The cleanest way I've found to save X videos (no account, no watermark)

I stopped choosing posting times and my consistency problem disappeared

The thing that finally got me traction on social wasn't posting more — it was replying

Creator Studio is dead — here's how Instagram scheduling works now

I shipped a week of AI-written posts and got nothing. Here's what was actually wrong.

What "free" actually means across social media schedulers

Does replying to tweets actually grow your account, or is it a myth?

I built an MCP server so founders can schedule social posts without leaving their editor

Does reposting your own tweet help? What the X algorithm actually does

How I fixed landing page attribution across OAuth redirects (30 lines of middleware)

The building-in-public system that actually stuck for me (after a lot of failed attempts)

Shipped LinkedIn support — here's what made it harder than X

Part 2: Getting ad attribution right as a solo founder — from GTM migration to missing UTM columns