Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

There's a narrative in tech that experience is a liability. That the industry belongs to 25-year-olds grinding 80-hour weeks on energy drinks and novelty....

Last January, a snowstorm knocked out my internet for four days. Not four hours — four days. The satellite dish on the roof of my cabin in Caswell Lakes...

I have a problem. Every time I get an idea for a tool I think is interesting, I want to build it immediately. Not plan it. Not validate it extensively....

Last Tuesday at around 10 PM, I was debugging a database migration while the sky outside my office window turned green.

Last year I applied for a contract role at a company that shall remain nameless. The recruiter was enthusiastic on the phone. My experience matched...

I wanted to see if it was possible to build something genuinely useful — not a toy, not a demo, an actual tool someone would pay for — using nothing but...

I've had pages deindexed. I've had AdSense applications rejected. I've watched a site go from 8,000 indexed pages to 4,000 in a single week — and then...

Nobody tells you this, but most resumes in 2026 are read by machines before they're read by humans.

Let me tell you about a project that went from idea to 8,000+ Google-indexed pages in under a month — running on a $5 server, built by one engineer...

Three years ago, I was sitting in a rental in Boise, staring at a terminal, and feeling absolutely nothing.

I almost didn't write this article.

I've been building SaaS features two different ways lately, and the performance gap between them is wider than I expected.

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.

I used Cursor for about four months. I was a paying customer. I evangelized it to friends. I thought it was the future of how we'd write software.

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

Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.

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 February I stood outside my cabin at 2 AM in minus thirty degrees, watching the sky do something that no monitor has ever accurately reproduced. The...

I have a trail camera problem. Specifically, I have fourteen trail cameras scattered across the woods around my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, and every...

I built AutoDetective.ai to help people diagnose car problems. Type in your symptoms — weird noise from the engine, check engine light, rough idle — and...