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Notes
Technical writing on data, search, and the numbers behind them. Pieces we wished existed before we had to write them.
3 pieces
- Indie hacking
How to Find Profitable Niches by Following the Stripe Trail
A practical method for indie devs: spot quietly profitable SaaS niches by combining traffic data with payment-system fingerprints like Stripe checkout.
12 min read - AI agents
The One-Person Competitive Intelligence Team
What AI agents can actually do for SEO and competitive research today, the failure modes to watch, and a practical playbook for the one-person team.
14 min read - Data quality
Where SimilarWeb, SEMrush & Ahrefs Get Their Data
A technical breakdown of how competitive-intel platforms collect data — clickstream, SERP scraping, crawlers — and why the numbers lie more than you think.
13 min read