What Daily Commenting on IndieHackers Actually Taught Me
I comment on other builders' posts most days instead of posting my own. Here's what that habit actually changed about how I think about my own products.
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Building products with AI as a non-coder — the work, the journey, and the exact playbooks. Filter by what you're here for.
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What 27 Views Taught Me About Building Without a Community
Five boilerplates I was proudest of pulled 27 Gumroad views total, against 204 for six Obsidian plugins. Here's what that gap actually taught me.
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The Checklist I Run Before I Kill a Product
I've pulled two product lines off Gumroad this year with no fixed process for the call. Writing down the checklist I actually used, after the fact.
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How I Test Products I Can't Read the Code For
I don't read the code my AI tools write. Here's the process I actually use to catch bugs before a buyer does, and where that process still falls short.
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Why I Keep Building New Products Instead of Fixing the Ones I Have
Five products of mine lost their buy buttons this summer. My first instinct wasn't to fix the distribution problem. It was to start something new instead.
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How I Explain 'Bring Your Own API Key' So It Doesn't Scare Buyers Off
BYOK is where a buyer either finishes setup or gives up and asks for a refund. Here's the process I use to explain the AI key step without losing them.
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Why I Took the SaaS Boilerplates Off Gumroad
Five SaaS boilerplates lost their Gumroad purchase links this week. The same platform-fit lesson from the n8n templates, showing up again on full products.
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How I Write an Etsy Listing So the Search Actually Finds It
The real process behind an Etsy listing that actually gets found: title structure, tag research, photo order, and the pricing experiment most sellers skip.
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Why I Took Three n8n Templates Off Gumroad
Three n8n templates are off my product page now. Here is the real reasoning behind pulling them, and the same platform-fit lesson showing up a second time.
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How I Package n8n Workflows So Strangers Can Actually Use Them
The real process behind packaging a personal n8n workflow for resale: stripping credentials, generalizing inputs, and the install guide most sellers skip.
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Why I Started Selling Digital Products on Etsy Too
Gumroad and n8n.io get traffic from communities already there. Here's why I opened an Etsy shop instead of forcing one platform to carry every product.
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The n8n Bug Where a Node Silently Overwrites $json
Building a Gmail support triage workflow in n8n, a node quietly replaced $json with its own data, and the usual fix for that didn't hold. Here's what broke.
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The Obsidian Plugin Bug That Hides Your Upgrade Button
I found a bug across 7 Obsidian plugins: free-tier users who hit their limit had no way to see or click an upgrade button. Here's the fix.
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Why I built a self-hosted schema doc tool I never needed
I went looking for a gap in the self-hosted market and found one in PostgreSQL schema documentation. Here is how I built SchemaLens in two days.
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Pocket is gone and Obsidian won't save your reading backlog by itself
Pocket shut down and millions moved their read-it-later pile to Obsidian. Here's why migrating the backlog doesn't fix it, and what actually does.
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Your YouTube Watch Later is overwhelming because deleting it is the wrong fix
Why clearing your YouTube Watch Later backlog with bulk-delete scripts misses the point, and a different way to triage an overwhelming saved-videos pile.
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I built six Obsidian plugins. Two sold.
I built six Obsidian plugins and only two sold. Here's the split between the ones that sold and the ones that didn't, with the real numbers, and what I took from it.
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The first sale I had almost stopped waiting for
My first two sales as a non-coder building digital products with AI both came from small Obsidian plugins, not the SaaS boilerplates I expected. The honest breakdown: 207 views, 2 sales, and what it taught me about what to build.
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