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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Everybody wants to talk about growth hacking. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when you have literally zero dollars to spend on it.