Getting your first customer for free. How I did it. (Open Source)

I ran into an issue building another product (https://forgelogbooks.com/) - I thought it was a good product, but I didn't want to spend money on advertising, and I was already doing a lot of work managing marketing for my main project.

I decided if I could get my first customer purely through SEO / AEO I would put some more time into it.

Today I am celebrating because that happened!

I built a little package that you can put into your website that essentially runs your blog on autopilot. Not terrible wall of text standard AI blog posts, but well formatted SEO optimized blog posts. You just point your agent at it and let it manage the rest.

After a little while of doing nothing on the site except letting my AI agent manage the blog, we've just received our first customer, completely free and organic.

The blog tool is completely free and open source - use it however you want, make customizations, just give me a shoutout if you like it!

Website: https://forgeblog-mauve.vercel.app/

Git Repo: https://github.com/coenhewes/forgeblog