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2026
He Built an App in 24 Hours and Made $20,378 the Next Day. Here's the Part Nobody Screenshots.
Marc Lou built TrustMRR in 24 hours and made $20,378 the next day. His own year-end letter admits he earned 20% less than 2024. Both facts matter.
He Built a Flight Simulator in Three Hours and Hit $1M a Year in 17 Days. Then It Went to Zero.
Pieter Levels hit $1M ARR in 17 days with a flight sim built in three hours. His bio now lists it at $0/m. The durable money was always the boring app.
Getting Your Writing Seen Beyond Your Own Site
Your site is the canonical home. Everywhere else is a spoke that points back to it. Here is the full distribution stack, from full content feeds to IndexNow to Reddit, in the order I would build it.
He Made $189,000 in Profit in a Single Month, Then Sold the Whole Thing to Wix for $80 Million. Six Months In.
Maor Shlomo signed the Wix deal the morning a war broke out. Six months, $189,000 in May profit, $80 million in cash. The clean version of this story skips the parts that matter.
The De-Slop Prompt Stack: Six Prompts That Stop Claude and ChatGPT From Sounding Like a Robot
Readers now punish writing that feels machine-made. These six prompts remove the tells, and they're built to be saved once and used forever.
From Invisible to Indexed: The Unglamorous Work of Getting Seen by AI Search
My site had all the fancy AI-optimization layers and still pointed at the wrong product. Here is the one-day plumbing pass that actually made it visible, in plain words.
Connecting Claude to Google Ads and GA4 via MCP
Claude, wired to a client's Google Ads and GA4 over MCP, ran a 90 day audit in one session. Here is the setup, the sharp edges, and what it found.
Optimizing for SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI Search in 2026
I took one site from 14.5 MB to 1 MB and watched the agentic browsing score go from 67 to 100. Most of what AI search rewards is embarrassingly old-fashioned.
The Constraint Goes First
Everyone writes prompts top-down: role, context, task, then a stack of rules at the end. That's the bug.
Optimizing Your Site for AI Agents and LLMs
Your site has human visitors and AI visitors. Here is how to serve both, with llms.txt, inline LLM instructions, structured data, and machine-readable feeds.