Getting your work in front of people
Written for someone who has shipped a couple of things and watched both of them launch to nobody. No growth hacks, and each one is worth reading with the product removed.
How to promote a side project when you have no audience
The honest version: launch platforms give you one day, ads do not work at this budget, and the only durable audience you have is the traffic already visiting the last thing you built. What to do with it.
How to cross-promote your own apps without spamming your users
Four ways to link your products to each other, what each one costs to maintain, and the n-squared problem that kills the hand-edited version by your third launch.
Linktree alternatives for developers: what actually fits a portfolio of shipped apps
Link-in-bio tools are built for a social profile with one link slot. If what you have is four deployed products, the shape of the problem is different, and so is the shape of the answer.
How to add a "made by" badge to your website, and what to link it to
A 'made by' badge is a small signature in the corner of your site that links to you. Where to put it, what it should say, the HTML for a static one, and why pointing it at a single social profile wastes the click.
MakerBadge alternatives: the maker badges compared, and when to build your own
MakerBadge, Make Taksh and a hand-rolled footer, compared on price, link limits, analytics and what happens when you ship app number four. Which one fits depends on how many things you have shipped.
How to show the projects you've shipped on your GitHub profile README
Pinned repositories show code, not the products you built with it. How to set up a GitHub profile README, list your shipped projects so people can reach them, what GitHub strips from a README, and how to keep the list current.
How to track outbound link clicks, with or without cookies
You link to other sites, or your apps link to each other, and have no idea whether anyone clicks. Five ways to track outbound clicks, from GA4 and Tag Manager to a small cookieless beacon of your own, what each costs in consent banners and setup, and what none of them can tell you.