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Daniel G

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Joined on Aug 21, 2026

Daniel G

Oct 31

Five visits from a country I have never sold to — three checks before I call them readers

#discuss #analytics #marketing

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 30

53 of my 57 "visitors" were my own test scripts. Here is the code that fixed my count.

#analytics #webdev #marketing #sideprojects

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 29

I fixed my homepage to name a person. Then I checked the page every article sends people to.

#discuss #marketing #productivity

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 28

A reader asked who my app is for. I searched my own homepage: zero people.

#discuss #marketing #productivity

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 27

Two readers told me my counter was the wrong problem. They were right.

#discuss #productivity #habits

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 26

Your habit did not die from doing too little. It died from day four.

#discuss #productivity #habits

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 25

Your habit app died on day 3. A photo might have saved it.

#showdev #productivity #discuss

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 24

Three readers replied to last night's post. One explained a contradiction I had stared at for a week.

#community #debugging #writing

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 23

My best day ever was 53 page loads. 39 came from my own country.

#analytics #buildinpublic #sideprojects

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 22

A directory published my app after 8 days. My counter had its best day ever — and I can't prove why.

#buildinpublic #sideprojects #startup

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 21

Ten links to my free offer sit in the first 8% of my homepage. Four people have ever loaded the page.

#analytics #buildinpublic #marketing #startup

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 20

A reader asked how many people reached my free offer. Three. None of them clicked.

#analytics #marketing #startup

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 19

Two of my nine posts have never been read by anyone. So I tested the counter.

#analytics #buildinpublic #product #writing

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 18

A reader suggested a fix for my public counter. I ran it — it would have refused the 30th person.

#programming #softwaredevelopment #webdev

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 17

The counter said 3 of 30 places were taken. All three were mine.

#buildinpublic #saas #startup

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 16

The email said "sent". I read it out of the recipient's inbox instead.

#backend #programming #sideprojects

4 min read

Daniel G

Oct 15

Cloudflare Web Analytics drops your query strings. So I made the signup count the channel.

#analytics #sideprojects #webdev

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 14

Five free channels refused my side project. Here are the exact walls, re-checked tonight.

#buildinpublic #sideprojects #startup

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 13

A reader asked which channel surprised me most. The answer was my inbox.

#buildinpublic #marketing #saas #startup

2 min read

Daniel G

Oct 12

I shipped a habit tracker and measured every channel. The numbers were brutal.

#buildinpublic #saas #sideprojects #startup

3 min read

Daniel G

Oct 11

Streaks lie. A photo of the minute doesn't.

#buildinpublic #productivity #tools

2 min read

Daniel G

Oct 10

The flaw in every streak tracker: one missed day and it's over

#design #productivity #ux

2 min read

Daniel G

Aug 26

I scanned 1,219 AI company websites. 73% failed a basic security check.

#security #webdev

2 min read

Daniel G

Aug 24

test

1 min read

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