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My Bottleneck Was the Offer, Not SEO: A Two-Sided Marketplace Cold Start
I spent months on SEO for FastPass. The real problem was a two-sided marketplace cold start on the creator side. What my own build and database showed, and what I changed.
1,791 Pages, Zero Indexed
A canonical mistake collapsed my tool site from ~1,800 indexed pages to 2. The code was fine. The real fix was not more pages, it was authority.
I Emailed 312 Users Who Ignored My App. Their Replies Shipped Three Fixes in 48 Hours.
Dashboards told me retention was bad. Three user replies told me why: a deterministic filter, a cutout model eating clothes, and a quiz field nobody ever saved.
The Failed Payments My Database Invented
OutfitMaker's subscriptions table was full of `incomplete` rows that looked exactly like broken checkouts losing me money. Stripe had never heard of any of them. The bug wasn't in my payment flow — it was in what I was counting, and it was pointing me at the wrong leak.
Blocking 7,500 Disposable Email Domains
The day after I finally got my conversion rate to be trustworthy, it lied to me again — not a bug this time, but a wave of throwaway-email signups inflating the top of the funnel. The fix was a blocklist, a memoized Set, and one word in a validator: on: :create.
SEO for Indie Hackers: What Actually Worked
Real data from 4 months of SEO effort on OutfitMaker. The strategies that moved the needle and the ones that wasted my time.
From Zero to First Paying Customer
First commit to first €7.99. The timeline, the numbers, what worked and what didn't on the path to revenue.
How I Got ChatGPT to Recommend My Product
Traffic from chatgpt.com appeared in my analytics. Here's what GEO means for indie products, and the specific steps that worked.