Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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...

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...

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.

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...

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

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

Last January, the temperature at my cabin in Caswell Lakes hit negative 42 degrees Fahrenheit. The diesel generator ran nonstop. My Starlink dish had so...

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...

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...