The other day, I got a notification from Google Search Console about a few pages on my site not being indexed. The report showed the main issue was 'thin content'—a technical way of saying the pages were mostly images or videos without enough text for Google to understand them.
She arrived this morning at 6:30 AM. I haven’t slept in like 40 hours or so, and I’m not sure the world is entirely real right now. Everything is different. Everything has changed.
My wife is pregnant, which is amazing. What’s less amazing is discovering that you and the person you love have wildly different opinions on what constitutes a good name for a tiny human. Our conversations went in circles. So, my engineer's brain defaulted to its usual setting: stop talking about the problem and start building a system to solve it.
Every project I start begins with a question that gets stuck in my head. For the past few weeks, the question has been this: "Is it possible to build a modern web app that doesn't feel needy?" It seems most software today is designed to constantly ask for something like your email, a password, your attention. I wondered if I could build something quiet, something that simply does its job and then gets out of the way.
My new product is a one-page financial dashboard. You give it your numbers ( income, expenses, debt) and it gives you back three things: your Debt-Free Date, your True Savings Rate, and a "Scenario Planner" to model your future. You can ask it "what if I earn an extra $100 this month?" and it will instantly show you how that changes your future.
It started as a private tool. It became a public product in intense 3 days, carved out from early mornings, lunch breaks, and late nights, while working a 9-to-5. This is the blueprint of how I did it:
