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I spent a week building my app's differentiator, then found four competitors already shipping it

Reddit's self-promo rules are killing organic growth for my legal-niche tool — what worked instead?

We decided our CRM will never have custom objects. Here's the line we drew and what it costs us.

Every check passed and Gmail still put my domain in spam. Here's what got it out.

I wanted to make my habit tracker feel more alive

Why Magento Stores Need More Than Just Basic SEO

Forge — one idea → five social drafts (Grok)

The month Stripe said $3,000, but the bank didn’t

I gave an AI agent one prompt. It found my leads, emailed them, and called them.

What did you remove from onboarding that made the product easier to understand?

What keeps bringing people to your product after launch week ends?

The bug my tests could not see: a history field that read live settings

LeadPuppet — I built a lead-gen tool because the existing ones were overpriced for what they actually do

What $100K on my last project taught me, and what I built because of it

I built Emote so AI agents can react to messages

I can see website visits and signups. But what happened in between?

Your First 100 Customers Are Probably Already Somewhere

I stopped tracking daily signups for 3 weeks. Here's the metric that actually told me what was broken.

Show IH: I got tired of fragmented text expanders, so I built an open-source, cross-platform alternative: Typerelay

One day of distributing a small extension, in ledger numbers: seven posts, two replies, one letter, four accounts, 67 texts written