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For a long time, building in public meant X. It made sense. My network was there, the conversations were real-time, and posting an update took seconds. IndieHackers never pulled me the same way, if...
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I have launched camiler.org almost a year ago and recently reached million of Google Search impressions with more than 10K clicks a month. Revenue from all of it: zero dollars. Not "not much yet." ...
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Search is breaking in a very specific direction, and it matters for anyone building a content-driven platform in 2026. SparkToro's most recent analysis puts the number plainly: 68% of Google search...
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I'm about to spend the next few weeks manually going through the ProductLog codebase. Frontend, backend, workers. Not adding features. Not fixing bugs. Reading every file, finding what's wrong, fix...
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Halfway through building ProductLog, I realized I was about to position it as the wrong product. Not the wrong product technically. The code did what I wanted it to do. The wrong product strategica...
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Most posts about launching a community platform are written by people who already have an audience. I don't. So this one is different. This isn't a retrospective. It's a plan, written down so I'm a...
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I spent more than twenty years bringing other people's ideas to life. Industrial engineer by training, self-taught software developer by trade — I started writing code in '98 and somehow never stop...
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