2026-09-28

I set up a Grok Bot that manages my X account for me

I've always wanted an AI to watch my X account for me: summarize mentions, track keywords, review post performance. Regular Grok can only chat — it can't actually do the work.Grok BotXAutomationRead ↗2026-09-27

You don't need paid SEO tools. I ran the whole playbook for $0.

Do you really need Ahrefs Lite or Semrush Pro to do SEO? I spent exactly zero dollars running the full pipeline for my three app websites — keyword research, page optimization, site audit, rank tracking.SEOIndieToolsRead ↗2026-09-26

Wrote dozens of blog posts, still no traffic? 90% of your keywords are wishful thinking

Built a website, blogged two posts a week for six months, then checked the dashboard — organic search still in the double digits a day. The writing wasn't the problem. The keywords were.SEOKeywordsIndieRead ↗2026-09-25

Stop publishing new posts. I spent 4 hours rewriting old titles — traffic tripled.

If you run an indie site, you know this day: staring at a blank editor, forcing yourself to write yet another new post, hitting publish... and the traffic curve doesn't move. I lived there too — until I did the math.SEOTitlesIndieRead ↗2026-09-24

I built backlinks every single day. Traffic didn't move.

You ship. Nobody comes. The first instinct isn't to fix the product — it's to spam backlinks. A month later, Search Console still shows single-digit impressions.BacklinksSEOIndieRead ↗2026-09-23

Four rooms. Four scoring functions. (AI made building cheap.)

AI made building cheap. Distribution did not. Hacker News, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, and MicroConf are four rooms — each grades a different homework.IndieDistributionHNRead ↗2026-09-19

Jev isn’t a better chatbot. It’s a referee seat for agents

Don’t ask if Jev is “stronger than GPT.” Ask what people are already doing with it: keep a big model for planning, and let Jev make the fast calls.AgentsJevDecisionRead ↗2026-09-18

A smarter model still can’t work if nothing is plugged in

Don’t ask which model is strongest first. Ask what it’s plugged into. MCP is USB-C for AI — Chrome DevTools is the example that turns empty chat into real work.AgentsMCPChromeRead ↗2026-09-17

Don’t burn Grok Bot quota on heavy work — make it schedule Build on the cloud computer

Bot weekly quota gets tight fast when you burn it on long, heavy sessions inside the Bot chat.Grok BotQuotaBuildRead ↗2026-09-16

I've been learning backlinks: a plain-English tool list + glossary

The hardest part wasn't the outreach. It was the jargon — DR, AS, nofollow, referring domains. A free-to-paid toolkit, then the terms that actually change decisions.BacklinksSEOIndieRead ↗2026-09-15

Three kinds of storage first — then Cloudflare vs Firebase

Files, user records, and a marketing site all sound like “storage,” but they’re three different shelves. Separate those first — then Cloudflare vs Firebase stops being tribal.ArchitectureCloudflareFirebaseRead ↗