What It Actually Costs to Run an AI Pet Holiday-Portrait Site (Stack, Per-Order Math, and the $4.99 Trap)I'm building PetMagi, a small site where you upload a photo of your dog or cat and get holiday portraits, a short animated clip and a share card back. It's the kind of "small payment, instant digital 10h ago · 6 min readtanlabs.hashnode.dev
Shipping a Browser Game Without an Artist: Cheap Character Art, Store Pages and Share Cards That Don't Look BrokenMost small browser games die in the same place: the code works, but the game still has programmer art, the store page has no proper cover, and the link shared on Discord shows a blank grey card. I jus12h ago · 3 min readtanlabs.hashnode.dev
The 20-Minute Pre-Launch Checklist for Indie Apps and Sites (Share Previews, AI Search, Reviews, Rankings)Launch day goes wrong in boring ways. The link you post on X shows a blank grey card. ChatGPT and Perplexity can't read your landing page, so they never mention you. You find out about the crash every12PD1d ago · 4 min readtanlabs.hashnode.dev
Track Your App's App Store Ranking Every Day (Any Country, Any Category) Without Paying for an ASO Suite"What rank are we in Productivity in Germany today?" sounds like a simple question, but most indie developers answer it by opening the App Store on a phone, scrolling, and guessing. ASO suites answer 1d ago · 4 min readtanlabs.hashnode.dev
Is Your Site Invisible to ChatGPT and Perplexity? A 5-Minute AI Search Readiness Check (plus a free llms.txt draft)More and more people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini instead of typing into Google. Those assistants only cite pages their crawlers can reach, read and understand. Many sites quietly fail on1d ago · 3 min readtanlabs.hashnode.dev
