brian lowery

imo those backlinks would not be helpful. and i think the whole strat of doing a badge for backlinks has been dead for a long time. you need a backlink on a page contextual to your product. ex: - an article all about analytics, or a paragraph about analytics - a website whose whole thing is analytics / privacy.

@adriaandotcom That would give you tons of backlinks too. Huge value for SEO whether it's one of your channel or not.

We passed 35,000 users at Simple Analytics. Every month, around 1,000 new users sign up and use our product. Transparency notice: most of them are free users. We have 1,337 paying customers. I was super scared about what support would cost us, so I built a community to forward people to and blocked the support email for free users. But you know what? Our tool is super self-serve. Users can figure it all out themselves, while our customer support is wide open. That said, we don’t get much back from our free users. They obviously don’t pay us anything, but we expected a bit more talk about Simple Analytics online because of it. So we’re debating internally whether we should add a badge requirement to the Free plan. Then free users would need to add a badge linking to Simple Analytics, which would give us something back: more eyeballs (even on smaller websites) and some backlinks (which might help, especially from bigger websites). Open to other suggestions on what we can do to keep the Free plan attractive, while also making sense from a business perspective.

@yongfook @Vikas_bril @nikitabier yeah i get it. idk why but everything you post is filled to the brim with ai replies. No other comment section i see is like that

@bdlowery @Vikas_bril Waiting for X to roll out the anti-bot stuff @nikitabier mentioned. It's a fools game trying to block them all one by one, it never ends.

There's a new type of dev. They don't get dev humor because they only know vibe coding. And they think they are experts because they have the latest .md files from wherever. Insufferable.

@joshmanders help onboard him to primcloud

Ya'll are getting robbed. This could run on Primcloud for $100/mo and I'd still be making good margin's off you as a customer.

ngl i love that dashboard ui

@yongfook @Vikas_bril Jon your replies are filled with ai replies and you’re getting one shot by responding to them. Just look at the guys profile you responded to here and check his replies. Same format for every reply, pure clanker through and through. Pls block the clankers

@Vikas_bril oh no call the gatekeep police

@poppacalypse @allgarbled Nothing because I think there is much easier tells 😌

@allgarbled @bdlowery what do you call them Brian?

I don’t know what you call them, but these little side tabs are like the emdash of vibe coded UIs

120k a year to vibe code. Interesting times we're in right now.

@JayVander_ you can still build things for fun, like people did back in the day

@bdlowery my landlord doesn't take "joy" as a payment

I enjoy things like this much more than generic-saas-number-43819

Why can't all websites just look like HackerNews or Craigslist? I literally don't give a shit about your stupid ass purple gradients and slide shows on scroll. I need to get my shit done.

creators earned $8.3M in Feb 2026 vs $16.97M in Nov 2022 on Gumroad. is everybody moving to vibe coding platforms?! what's going on

90% of my followers are people who got banned or had their posts removed from build in public

@levelsio DO NOT REDEEM. WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT. DO. NOT. REDEEM.

When Claude gives you life advice

@levelsio Depends I think. Something like Laravel boost is an actually good MCP if you’re using Laravel. Just gives the model extra tools to use, like searching laravel docs, searching local db, etc. very useful imo on a case by case basis

Thank god MCP is dead Just as useless of an idea as LLMs.txt was It's all dumb abstractions that AI doesn't need because AI's are as smart as humans so they can just use what was already there which is APIs

@rrmdp Slowly but surely. Maybe in a couple years I’ll be higher, just gotta stick with it 😅

@bdlowery oh this is a good one! LFG 💪🏻

nice, slowly getting there 😌

@weswinder i dont understand the reasoning behind it

@bdlowery absolute brain rot

One of the worst comment sections i've ever seen. Filled with ai replies and like 4 real comments

"The magic's in the mundane, not the flashy" @BrosnanHoban is a poet. A visionary. A genius.

@illyism never forget x.com/bdlowery/statu…

SEO Heist 2.0 The last time they did this they got penalized 🍿