Pet Project Atlas
Read it top to bottom. This is a route, not a table of contents, so every section assumes the one above it already worked.
Come in from where you are now.
No product yet, or no answer to how yours differs — where a niche starts. Shipped and only you can find it — start here. Something specific is broken — look the symptom up in Tools.
I am not an SEO expert
Section titled “I am not an SEO expert”I build side projects and I read their logs. Here I show what I saw in my own dashboards, panels and access logs, and how I went looking.
Your data will say something else. Copy the procedure, not my numbers, because my numbers are one small project on the day I measured it.
Sometimes the number is embarrassing. One click in three months. Not one AI agent ever fetched the file I told people to publish, and the mysterious crawler in my log turned out to be my own curl.
Those numbers are on the pages too, because if you show a reader only the wins, he never learns where the walls are.
What every page owes you
Section titled “What every page owes you”Every page here hands you something you can run: a command, a query, a panel to open — not a principle to consider.
Every number carries the day I measured it and the panel I read it off. Where I have neither, I take the number out of the page, and I do not round it into a hedge, because a hedge looks like data and is not.
At the bottom of every page sits a block called “What did not work”. It is never empty. The build refuses a page where it is.
Two sections sit outside the route. Tools says which skill to run for which symptom, and Cases holds the bar a full write-up has to clear. One case is up so far — this site, measured on itself.