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October 26, 2026

Tsuyu's first ad budget: $280, 14 days, one question

Tsuyu's first paid traffic: the Google Ads plan, what I'm measuring, and the pivot and demo that came first.

tsuyu build-in-public google-ads indie-hacker

October 10, 2026

A second AI judge for my leads: 600 posts, 3 cents

I ran a new model in shadow mode behind SignalScout's lead classifier for three days. It never touched a score. Here is what 600 side-by-side judgments showed.

ai signalscout evaluation indie-hacker

September 6, 2026

AdHalo is on Product Hunt

One product photo in, a finished ad out — headline written and designed into the image, not stamped over it. What it does, what it costs, and the bugs.

launch adhalo build-in-public product-hunt

August 20, 2026

The logrotate bug that restarted my fleet at midnight

Five Go backends restarted every midnight for three weeks. The culprit: a logrotate template. The accomplice: systemd's Restart=always. The tell: a counter.

postmortem systemd linux indie-hacker

August 20, 2026

Two cron loops run my 13-product portfolio while I sleep

The ops model behind a solo-operator SaaS portfolio: a 15-minute maintenance loop, a daily deep loop, and deploys gated hard enough that I sleep through them.

claude-code automation ops indie-hacker

August 1, 2026

One Week, Four Products — What Actually Shipped

A full in-browser manga editor built in a day, a dead weekend project revived, two new products before the week was out, and a bug I found by accident.

build-in-public mangaforge polykal indie-hacker

July 28, 2026

Building Tsuyu: The Week My AI Video Machine Fought Back

One button turns a story into a finished video. Here's the week it took to get there — AI panel throttling, a dead image bot, and a 2.5-minute outage.

tsuyu build-in-public ai-video indie-hacker

July 20, 2026

Faceless YouTube shorts, zero editing — and they got views

Pick a Reddit thread, get back a finished short — no editing, no timeline, no captions. How effortless it got, and the real views my channel pulled.

tsuyu faceless-youtube ai-video build-in-public

May 29, 2026

Claude Code runs my monorepo so I can ship from my phone

How I wired Claude Code into a cheap always-on server with self-running loops and guarded autonomy — and what it actually fixed while I wasn't looking.

claude-code automation hetzner workflow

April 23, 2026

Welcome

What this blog is about — side projects, lessons learned, and the real numbers behind them.

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