Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Last month I was looking at my analytics for AutoDetective.ai and noticed something I wasn't expecting. A non-trivial chunk of referral traffic was coming...

I scaled a site from 800 to 20,000 indexed pages. Google punished the thin ones and rewarded the rest. Real traffic, revenue, and infrastructure costs inside.

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...

AI Overviews crushed my reference content. Experience-based articles held. I rebuilt my SEO strategy around what LLMs can't replicate.

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

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

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

I made $47.82 in affiliate commissions last month. Let that sink in before you read any further.

Here's a truth that most side hustle advice ignores: when you're over fifty, you don't have the same tolerance for busywork that you did at twenty-five.

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...

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 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...

Let me tell you what nobody at those "passive income" conferences wants to admit: most side projects don't make money. They make traffic. They make GitHub...

The first dollar you make online feels different from every dollar after it.

I shipped twelve products last year. Not twelve ideas. Not twelve prototypes gathering dust on GitHub. Twelve things that real people could sign up for...

I've been living on a homestead in Caswell Lakes, Alaska for a while now. And every single day, I run into problems that software should be solving but...

Every developer I know has a folder on their hard drive that's basically a cemetery. Mine is called ~/projects/archive, and it contains the remains of at...

My first royalty check from Amazon was $47.32. That was for an entire quarter of sales of a technical book that took me the better part of eight months to...

Every Sunday morning, before I do anything else, I sit down at my desk with a cup of black coffee and open the same five browser tabs I've opened every...

I wrote 200 lines of code this morning before the sun came up. Then I went outside and split a cord of birch in minus fifteen degrees. Then I came back...