Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

From Burnout to 3 Products Live: My 6-Month Rebuild Story
Six months ago, I couldn't write a single line of code without feeling like the walls were closing in. I'd sit down at my desk, open my editor, stare at...
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Building a Niche Tool for Homesteaders (Market Research + Launch Plan)
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...
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Indie SaaS Metrics Dashboard: What I Track Weekly in 2026
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...
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Cross-Promoting SaaS: How My Job Board Feeds AutoDetective Traffic
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...
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Building in Public Alaska-Style: Coding While Chopping Wood
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...
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Zero-Budget Launch: How I Got 500 Signups Without Ads
Everybody wants to talk about growth hacking. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when you have literally zero dollars to spend on it.
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Scaling to 20k Pages: Programmatic SEO Lessons from My 2026 Experiment
In January 2025, AutoDetective.ai had about 800 indexed pages. By March 2026, it has over 20,000. The traffic graph looks like a hockey stick that...
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From Idea to First $10: My Latest Gumroad Product Built with Agents
The first dollar you make online feels different from every dollar after it.
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The Hidden Revenue Streams in Tech Writing: From Amazon Books to Affiliate Empires
Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.
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