Practical, honest writing on launching in public, growing after launch, and tracking what actually works.
Dofollow links pass authority, nofollow links tell search engines not to. But Google changed the rules in 2019, and most founder advice never caught up. Here is what actually matters now.
Read itYou posted in five places and traffic spiked. Which post did it? Without tracking links you are guessing. Here is the simplest setup that ends the guessing.
Read itTraffic is the easiest number to fool yourself with. Here is how to track which channel brings paying customers, not just visitors, without a data team.
Read itLaunch day brought a spike and then a flat line. Here is a concrete 30-day plan to get your first 100 real users, one week at a time.
Read itDomain Rating is the SEO number every founder hears about and few understand. Here is what it is, what counts as good, and the realistic way to move it from zero.
Read itSubmitting to startup directories is the fastest early backlink win, and the easiest way to burn an afternoon on junk. Here is which ones are worth it and how to know.
Read itProduct Hunt is one launch surface, not the only one. Here are the alternatives worth your time, grouped by what each one actually does, and how to know which one sent real visitors.
Read itMost launch sites only celebrate winners. We track the whole journey - growing, stalled, pivoted, abandoned - because that is where founders actually learn.
Read itYou shipped. Now what? A simple, honest starting order for your first marketing channels, and why SEO usually comes first.
Read itMomentum after launch comes from cadence, not heroics. Here is a two-hour weekly loop a solo founder can run forever without burning out.
Read itA stalled launch is not a failure, it is the normal middle. How to tell whether it is a traffic problem or a conversion problem, and the one change to make next.
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