Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I built an open-source EPUB reader in one night using Claude Code — drag, drop, read, and analyze your book before it goes live.

LangExtract brings schema enforcement, source grounding, and multi-pass extraction to any LLM. Here's how to build a real PDF intelligence pipeline.

Low-code platforms promised to democratize software development. AI-augmented engineering just made that promise obsolete — and cheaper.

Build a real AI agent from scratch in Python — tools, memory, reasoning loops, and multi-agent systems. No framework hand-holding.

Estimating AI project costs is harder than it looks. Learn why token costs compound, what self-hosting really costs, and how to build budgets that hold up.

Portless by Vercel Labs replaces localhost port numbers with stable named URLs. Here's how it works, who it's for, and why AI coding agents care about it.

I woke up on January 1st, 2026, with a hangover and an idea. What if I spent the entire year running one small revenue experiment per week? Not building...

Last winter, I watched a bull moose walk through my yard in Caswell Lakes. He wasn't in a hurry. He wasn't optimizing his route. He just moved...

I hit a wall in October 2024. Not a metaphorical wall — a real, physical, I-can't-get-out-of-bed wall. My hands were shaking from too much caffeine. I was...

Somewhere around 2023, the indie dev world lost its mind. Everyone was building AI wrappers, slapping a $29/month price tag on them, and calling it a...

I gave away the first three chapters of my book for free. People told me I was crazy.

Most developers build one product at a time and market it in isolation. I know because I did this for years and it's an incredibly inefficient way to...

I have gotten pricing wrong more times than I've gotten it right. That's not false modesty — it's 30 years of launching products and watching perfectly...

I've been building websites since the late 1990s. Back then, "passive income" meant building a site about digital cameras, stuffing it with affiliate...

I posted a thread on X last month about the mistakes I made deploying a Node.js application to DigitalOcean's App Platform. It got about 40,000...

My Google Search Console numbers for January 2026 told a story I'd been expecting but dreading: organic clicks were down 34% year-over-year on Grizzly...

I made $47,000 last year from side projects. Not a fortune, but enough to pay for the cabin in Alaska, keep the woodstove fed, and fund my unhealthy...

Last month I launched a new digital product on Gumroad — a 40-page PDF guide on building production-ready API gateways. The entire launch process, from...

I watched a site with 40,000 AI-generated pages lose 92% of its traffic in a single Google algorithm update. Forty thousand pages. Built over six months....

Most affiliate advice sounds like it was written by someone who has never actually earned a meaningful check from affiliate revenue.