Blog
Technical notes, SEO strategies, and practical lessons from building products for global markets.
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Mindset Is Your Best Feng Shui: A Survival Playbook for AI Entrepreneurs
Lessons on choosing projects, managing risk, improving conversion, building a site portfolio, and staying resilient while pursuing global AI opportunities.
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One Native Localized Site Beats Eight Translations
A hands-on playbook for researching, building, localizing, and scaling standalone non-English sites that feel native to users and search engines.
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SEO from First Principles: Tools, Search Mechanics, and Global Growth
A first-principles guide to how Google discovers, indexes, and ranks pages, plus the tools and workflows that make SEO execution more reliable.
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From a Broke Student to Five-Figure Monthly Income: A Gen Z AI Entrepreneur's Journey
A candid account of learning to build websites, finding real demand, using SEO, and turning consistent action into a sustainable global AI business.
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From Vercel to Cloudflare: A Static-First, Edge-First Migration Retrospective for an SEO Content Site
A retrospective on moving an SEO content site from Vercel to Cloudflare Workers: trimming a SaaS template, exporting Next.js statically, routing at the edge, protecting SEO, validating launch, and keeping rollback clear.
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I Attended Gefei's Mid-Year Offline Meetup: An Actionable SEO & Going-Global Notebook
Notes from Gefei's mid-year meetup in Shanghai: getting valuable free traffic from search, pricing design that lifts average order value to $67, building and deploying sites fast with AI, plus hands-on SEO and backlink tactics.
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A Step-by-Step Guide: Building a Knowledge-Base AI Assistant on Aliyun Bailian That Can Query Live Business Data
Feed your product manuals, SOPs, and error-code references to an LLM and turn it into an always-on, accurate ops/support assistant. A complete from-scratch walkthrough on Aliyun Bailian: build a RAG knowledge base, bind an agent app, integrate via HTTP/SSE, query live data with a custom plugin, and add a Spring Boot SSE proxy with query logging.
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From Nanjing to Suzhou: An AI Meetup Made Me Realize AI is Not a Tool, It's an Employee
Many people aren't failing at using AI; rather, their AI doesn't have a specific job. Issue an employment certificate to AI, and it will truly become an employee.
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An Indie Hacker's Traffic Awakening: SEO vs Growth Hacking, the Math and the Engineering
A retrospective on a micro-site ranking experiment: linear SEO growth vs the exponential math of a viral K-factor. Two playbooks side by side, plus an interactive simulator at the end so you can move the levers yourself.
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A Week to Drop My Cloudflare Bill from $6.44 to $5.92 — and Why the Money Saved Wasn't the Real Win
Five SaaS projects sharing one mksaas template, all hitting the same trap. A retrospective on tracing a bill anomaly back to template debt, plus two counter-intuitive findings: 'killing a project beats fixing it' and 'a cache HIT header doesn't mean money saved'.