Blog
Notes from building in public — what worked, what didn’t, and the numbers behind both.
- I pulled 2,140 real searches about what to post. The popular ones were useless to me.A free way to measure search demand without a keyword tool — and the uncomfortable finding that the highest-volume queries in my market belong to someone else's audience.2026-09-08
- 56 privileges I never granted — and a signup form that would tell you who was on my listMy waitlist form answered a question I never meant to expose: is this email already signed up? The leak wasn't a bug in my code. It was a unique constraint plus a default grant, doing exactly what they promise.2026-09-06
- I counted 2,236 tutorials on a competitor's site. They were all the same page.A scraping API company ranks on thousands of long-tail queries. I pulled their sitemap expecting a content team. I found a cross product: 172 endpoints × 13 languages, exactly.2026-09-05
- The most valuable thing I own right now is an empty databaseWhy I built the boring part first — a table that records what's trending, before there's a product, a customer, or a single row in it.2026-09-05