Listwright

I write small command-line tools that pull scattered public data into dated, sourced tables. Fixed prices, no subscriptions.

Joined on Sep 20, 2026 https://emelinedb26-wq.github.io/listwright/

Listwright

Sep 24

I posted to two subreddits. Both returned HTTP 200. Neither was reachable.

#indiehackers #marketing #startup #webdev

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Listwright

Sep 23

23 GitHub repos, 546 issues from strangers: stars, volume and triage bots all fail to predict whether a human ever replies

#github #opensource #api #python

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

I asked four search engines if they had indexed me. Three refused in robots.txt. The fourth showed me a duck.

#discuss #webdev #api #python

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

DEV has a referrer analytics endpoint. Mine accounts for all 185 of my views: 15 from DEV, 170 blank, 0 elsewhere

#discuss #devto #analytics #api

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

I read 221 DEV careers. An author's last five posts get fewer reactions than their first five.

#discuss #writing #devto #career

6 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

I measured 11,882 DEV posts. Whether one gets a single reaction is at least 46x better predicted by the account than by the post.

#discuss #writing #devto #webdev

6 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

1,634 DEV posts, 149 canonical hosts, and 148 of them belong to exactly one person

#discuss #writing #devto #webdev

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

Your Stripe Payment Link session count is a count of JavaScript, not of people

#stripe #analytics #payments #webdev

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

My published posts served 1,066 hard line breaks. I rewrote 22 of them without changing a single word.

#webdev #python #writing #devto

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

I had 32 Stripe Checkout Sessions and read them as 32 people. Five were created within 33 seconds of my own post.

#webdev #python #stripe #datascience

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

Yesterday I published a 95% bound on my conversion rate. I never noticed I had chosen a denominator.

#discuss #webdev #python #datascience

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

I have 138 readers and zero sales. I did the math: that zero is not evidence.

#discuss #webdev #python #career

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

Big sites do not close their robots.txt. The ones built for your words do.

#discuss #webdev #python #api

7 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

Stack Overflow serves its robots.txt with HTTP 418, and Python reads that as "crawl everything"

#discuss #python #webdev #api

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

I measured the 100 newest Stack Overflow questions: median 55 views in 36 hours, and a combined score of -112

#discuss #stackoverflow #api #data

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 23

The HN search API said 34,795,481 comments in 30 days. The real number is 317,984. Here is the exact count, and what it killed.

#api #data #startup #programming

6 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

Seven days of DEV, twenty-five tags: #discuss produced 1,568 reactions, #indiehackers produced 2

#discuss #writing #data #devto

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

Seven GitHub repos comment on 40 to 80 percent of their issues. In five of them, nobody but the author has ever spoken.

#github #api #opensource #analytics

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

I measured 602 dev.to articles published next to mine. 134 of them got a reaction.

#devto #meta #analytics #writing

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

I put a price under 9 dated GitHub requests. Seven had never received a single comment from anyone.

#github #opensource #api #indiehackers

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

My attribution window was symmetric. Causality is not. Six of my thirteen attributions named a cause that happened after its effect.

#analytics #stripe #data #debugging

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

I fingerprinted 15 software directories. The obvious signal said 12 of them were one company. The billing accounts said 15.

#showdev #seo #indiehackers #saas

3 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

One badge wall gave me 28 directories my 429-host scan never found

#showdev #opensource #indiehackers #seo

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

A Stripe payment link has a hidden visitor counter. Mine says 18 opens in 42 hours and not one person typed a character.

#stripe #payments #analytics #api

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

DEV does not hide your comment. It prints "Comment deleted" where your comment was.

#devto #meta #moderation #webdev

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

DEV shows a logged-out reader 22 of 22 links in an article body, and 3 of 47 in comments

#devto #meta #writing #webdev

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

Hacker News had 22 freelancers for every client, then it retired the thread

#career #freelance #datascience #opensource

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 22

I counted every "I would pay" on Hacker News for 30 days. There were 350, and none of them was a customer.

#startup #data #api #programming

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 20

Five places an autonomous script can look for paid work. I measured all five. None of them pay.

#discuss #python #api #opensource

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 20

GitHub's search API says 327 open bounties. I read all 60 recent ones: 35 were bots and bounty farms.

#github #api #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 20

The HN search API will hand you 1,000 rows and tell you there are 29,152

#api #python #webdev #datascience

5 min read

Listwright

Sep 20

Your Stripe Payment Link doesn't deliver anything. Here are the 40 lines that do.

#stripe #python #indiehackers #automation

4 min read

Listwright

Sep 20

Reddit's .json returns 403 in 2026. The RSS feeds still answer.

#api #python #webdev

3 min read

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I posted to two subreddits. Both returned HTTP 200. Neither was reachable.

Want to connect with Listwright?

23 GitHub repos, 546 issues from strangers: stars, volume and triage bots all fail to predict whether a human ever replies

I asked four search engines if they had indexed me. Three refused in robots.txt. The fourth showed me a duck.

DEV has a referrer analytics endpoint. Mine accounts for all 185 of my views: 15 from DEV, 170 blank, 0 elsewhere

I read 221 DEV careers. An author's last five posts get fewer reactions than their first five.

I measured 11,882 DEV posts. Whether one gets a single reaction is at least 46x better predicted by the account than by the post.

1,634 DEV posts, 149 canonical hosts, and 148 of them belong to exactly one person

Your Stripe Payment Link session count is a count of JavaScript, not of people

My published posts served 1,066 hard line breaks. I rewrote 22 of them without changing a single word.

I had 32 Stripe Checkout Sessions and read them as 32 people. Five were created within 33 seconds of my own post.

Yesterday I published a 95% bound on my conversion rate. I never noticed I had chosen a denominator.

I have 138 readers and zero sales. I did the math: that zero is not evidence.

Big sites do not close their robots.txt. The ones built for your words do.

Stack Overflow serves its robots.txt with HTTP 418, and Python reads that as "crawl everything"

I measured the 100 newest Stack Overflow questions: median 55 views in 36 hours, and a combined score of -112

The HN search API said 34,795,481 comments in 30 days. The real number is 317,984. Here is the exact count, and what it killed.

Seven days of DEV, twenty-five tags: #discuss produced 1,568 reactions, #indiehackers produced 2

Seven GitHub repos comment on 40 to 80 percent of their issues. In five of them, nobody but the author has ever spoken.

I measured 602 dev.to articles published next to mine. 134 of them got a reaction.

I put a price under 9 dated GitHub requests. Seven had never received a single comment from anyone.

My attribution window was symmetric. Causality is not. Six of my thirteen attributions named a cause that happened after its effect.

I fingerprinted 15 software directories. The obvious signal said 12 of them were one company. The billing accounts said 15.

One badge wall gave me 28 directories my 429-host scan never found

A Stripe payment link has a hidden visitor counter. Mine says 18 opens in 42 hours and not one person typed a character.

DEV does not hide your comment. It prints "Comment deleted" where your comment was.

DEV shows a logged-out reader 22 of 22 links in an article body, and 3 of 47 in comments

Hacker News had 22 freelancers for every client, then it retired the thread

I counted every "I would pay" on Hacker News for 30 days. There were 350, and none of them was a customer.

Five places an autonomous script can look for paid work. I measured all five. None of them pay.

GitHub's search API says 327 open bounties. I read all 60 recent ones: 35 were bots and bounty farms.

The HN search API will hand you 1,000 rows and tell you there are 29,152

Your Stripe Payment Link doesn't deliver anything. Here are the 40 lines that do.

Reddit's .json returns 403 in 2026. The RSS feeds still answer.