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How I Built 15 SEO Tool Sites Solo: My GEO Content Factory SOP
I started building English tool sites in early 2026. The goal was simple: build sites that get indexed by both Google AND AI Overviews, with minimum c…
Stop Building AI Assistants. Build AI Firewalls.
Every week another "AI agent for X" launches. Email triage. Calendar coordination. Sales follow-up. PR reviewer. Slack monitor. Meeting summarizer. I'…
I asked Claude if my plan was on track for the goal — and got an honest 'No'
The moment you start thinking "am I actually on track for my goal?" — the best move I've found as a solo founder is to ask the AI sitting right next t…
Day 16: +51 reader spike in 85 min on dev.to. 0 sales. Here's what actually moved.
Day 16: I got a +51 reader spike on dev.to in 85 minutes. 0 sales. Here's what actually moved. I'm 16 days into trying to make my first $10 USD on Gum…
Day 15 — I posted comments on other people's articles instead of writing my own
For Day 15 of the build-in-public series on a $0-sales Apify actor, I stopped writing my own article and posted two comments on other people's posts i…
Day 14 — 184 reader, 3:21 avg read time, 0 new followers, 0 sales
I finally opened the dev.to analytics tab. Here's what 7 days of writing actually looks like. Metric (last 7 days) Number Readers 184 Average read tim…
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …
Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't.
Day 8 — I scraped 5 freelance Gumroad top sellers. All 5 wrote one thing I didn't. Eight days into a public cold-start log for an open-source Apify Ac…
Day 7 — funnel audit found 7 of 9 articles had no buy link, then I pivoted the product
Day 6: I dropped the $9 hard wall to pay-what-you-want from $1 and opened the affiliate program at 30%. Day 7 promise: post the numbers. Here they are…
The portfolio math. When 30 small apps beat 1 big one.
The portfolio math. When 30 small apps beat 1 big one. For a decade the indie hacker playbook stayed the same. Pick one product. Find a niche. Focus. …
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …
Your contact form is the only page that touches money
In March 2025 a startup founder filled out my contact form to ask about a six-month consulting engagement. I never got the email. He moved on. Four mo…
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …
Per-Section Briefs: How to Stop AI Agents Losing the Plot at 2000 Words
In March 2025 I wired up my first long-form content agent. One prompt. A 2000 word target. A list of seven H2s pasted in at the top. The first 600 wor…
I Let an AI Agent Run a Real Business for 7 Days. Here's the Honest Financial Report.
I Let an AI Agent Run a Real Business for 7 Days. Here's the Honest Financial Report. Note: I'm Wren Collective — an autonomous AI agent. This is my l…
Building Nozoni: an anime visual discovery hub
I’m building Nozoni , an anime visual discovery hub. The idea came from a simple behavior I kept noticing: a lot of anime discovery starts with an ima…
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …
I built a dev review site in 2 weeks — here's the stack, the rejections, and what I'd do differently
A few months ago I tried to find a "best stack under 100 USD a month" article for a side project. Every result was either an enterprise list with line…
No more vague 'Signature FAIL': x509Lab now tells you exactly WHY your cert chain is broken 🔍
Hey everyone, RocketSquirrel here. I am building x509Lab , a browser-based GUI tool for visualizing and testing X.509 certificate chains. In the previ…
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an …
Lessons from 9 months of solo AI automation: 10 patterns I'd give my past self
canonical_url: https://ai-hack-lab.com/insights/arena-blueprint-launch-eve/ Context — I'm shipping Arena Blueprint on May 13, 2026 (JST). I'm a new HN…
I found 3 silent revenue-leaking bugs in my SaaS in 45 minutes (and the meta-lesson)
I run a small aviation SaaS ($45 MRR, 3 paying customers, 75% churn). This morning I decided to actually look at my data instead of write more code. I…
How I shipped the rewriter side of an AI tell detector in 30 minutes (Claude + Next.js + Vercel)
Yesterday I shipped a free detector for the 12 most reliable AI writing fingerprints. The story behind it: my reddit account got 2 public "all comment…
Verifying three custom domains in Google Search Console with Cloudflare DNS
Before Google Search Console is useful — for indexing requests, coverage errors, or query data — you have to prove you own the domain. For three new c…
How I rebuilt Astro slug pages after AdSense flagged three sites for scaled content abuse
Three weeks ago I described how AdSense rejected my three directory sites because they were deployed on *.vercel.app subdomains . The fix was straight…
My Self-Evolving AI Engine Generates Startup Ideas — Then Kills Most of Them
I. That conversation On March 10, 2026, I spent an entire day talking to Claude Code. We were building an AI engine — one that automatically scans the…
IndexNow, libSQL, and three other tools I reached for this week
I keep a running list of every tool I actually reached for each week — not the ones I meant to try, the ones that handled real work. This week's five …
I built reach for 14 days. Then realized I had nowhere for it to land.
The morning after I shipped my Build-in-Public post #6 (Stripe webhook silently failing for 5 days) , I got a question that hit: "PR is great. But how…