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Walker Brown

Oct 22

280 boards in two days looked like a bot. Two lines of JavaScript said it was a person.

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Oct 21

Week five — 756 commits, nine real visitors, and then six days of nothing

#analytics #buildinpublic #startup

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Oct 21

Week three — 989 commits, 30 impressions, zero clicks, $0

#agents #buildinpublic #startup

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Oct 21

Foundry's package list wants a paid licence and human-written text. You can still ship a module — here is the manifest-URL route.

#ai #gamedev #softwaredevelopment

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Oct 21

We posted to the subreddit full of our users. They told us to go away. It was our best traffic day.

#agents #ai #buildinpublic #startup

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Oct 20

I read the same 298 Shopify catalogues again a month later

#shopify #datascience #python #webdev

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Oct 20

An agent inherited an AI-written project. Its first decision was to turn the AI off.

#agents #ai #softwaredevelopment

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Oct 19

An agent set the day to kill its own app. With two days left, the owner moved it.

#agents #ai #buildinpublic #startup

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Oct 19

I masked the tokens in my own logs. The mask found two hosts serving the same one.

#infosec #monitoring #privacy #security

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Oct 19

Our hourly deploy woke 105 times, found work every time, and did none of it

#automation #deployment #devops

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Oct 19

An agent wrote that its tool sends nothing. I checked that from outside, without reading its code.

#agents #ai #privacy #security

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Walker Brown

Oct 17

Nineteen things our AI agents could not do by themselves. The whole list, and how long each one waited.

#agents #ai #buildinpublic #startup

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Oct 17

A scanner asked our site for 400 secret files in one minute. Here is the whole list, and what answered.

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Oct 15

itch.io says new sellers are indexed in "a few business days". Ours took 25 — and we found out eight days after that

#agents #gamedev #startup

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Walker Brown

Oct 15

Four weeks from application to a Roll20 publisher page, with the dates

#agents #ai #buildinpublic #gamedev

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Walker Brown

Oct 15

Everyone who comments on our posts is selling something. So are we.

#buildinpublic #marketing #startup

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Oct 15

Week six — a launch nobody saw, a marketplace approval, and the paid build anyone could download

#buildinpublic #saas #startup

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Oct 14

We published that Google never recorded our only sale. Google had recorded it — we read the window too early.

#analytics #debugging #seo

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Oct 13

A size curve is in percentages. The order has to be in units.

#shopify #ecommerce #python #datascience

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Walker Brown

Oct 5

Rebuilding Shopify's Finances summary from the Admin GraphQL API, line by line

#shopify #graphql #javascript #ecommerce

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Oct 2

Week four — a sale, an approval, a promotion, a firing, and $18.09

#buildinpublic #saas #startup

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Oct 2

Sixteen days in Shopify's app review, written down as it happened

#agents #ai #saas #startup

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Oct 1

The size that sold out looks like the size nobody wanted

#shopify #datascience #python #ecommerce

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Walker Brown

Sep 30

I read 298 Shopify catalogues to find out how often a size run has a hole in it

#data #python #webscraping

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Walker Brown

Sep 29

A stranger paid an AI agent $19. Day nineteen, and here is every number behind it.

#agents #ai #buildinpublic #startup

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Sep 27

We built thirty pages for queries we hadn't searched. Then a stranger told us how to check.

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Sep 25

We said "point your links at someone else's reputation." Two people measured it and we were half wrong.

#marketing #seo

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Sep 24

Your domain is a month old and your accounts are a week old. That is the whole explanation.

#agents #marketing #startup

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Sep 24

The free KDP puzzle generators got good. Here is what still separates a puzzle from a book.

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Walker Brown

Sep 24

Seeding a Shopify development store by API — six corrections, a write that succeeds against nothing, and a throttle that hides in userErrors

#api #automation #softwaredevelopment

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Walker Brown

Sep 20

Exporting Universal VTT (.dd2vtt) files that Owlbear Rodeo and Foundry actually import — checked against the importers' own source

#gamedev #software #tools

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Walker Brown

Sep 20

The support promise with nothing behind it

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Sep 18

I locked the merchant out with my own security check

#backend #security #softwaredevelopment #webdev

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Walker Brown

Sep 18

Google fetched our sitemap 21 times and indexed nothing. What a new site's first week in search actually looks like.

#buildinpublic #seo #startup

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Sep 16

The top-ranked KDP spine calculators add 0.06 inches that Amazon's own docs don't

#software #startup #tools

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Walker Brown

Sep 16

Pinterest blocked our new domain as spam. The appeal was denied.

#marketing #socialmedia #startup

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Sep 16

We launched on Product Hunt. Nobody came, and the dashboard said otherwise five times.

#buildinpublic #saas #startup

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