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Build-log essays on shipping real products with AI: what worked, what broke, and what I would do differently.
Turning Discord servers into a distribution channel for Fantasy Joes The week I built partner attribution for Discord, made the channel measurable in the growth dashboard, and rebuilt the comics pipeline to reject its own bad art. Jul 4, 2026 How I turned the game's own duel data into 145 SEO pages Fantasy Joes is a game where people pick between two NFL players. That means it already knows how the crowd would answer "player X or player Y" — the exact question people search before a draft. Here's how I turned that byproduct into 145 comparison pages, and the parts that were harder than they look. Jul 3, 2026 How I security-audited my own money feature before turning it on A solo builder with no security team, stress-testing a real-money feature with AI before shipping it — why the bar is different for money, how the audit was structured, and what it cost. Jul 3, 2026 I rebuilt this site with AI agents, and the hard part was making them write the truth Rebuilding nickdahlhoff.com in a day with a fleet of AI agents — and why the real work was writing rules that kept them from making things up in my voice. Jul 3, 2026