📰 Dev.to · KerfIQ

Self-rolling PII regex is brittle. AWS Comprehend / Google DLP has 1-2 hour TCO before you even hit the first call. RedactPath is the in-between: 30-second sign

Polar.sh tells you 'paid orders this month'. SourcePolar tells you which channel each one came from — X build-in-public, DEV.to article, YouTube video, or your

I shipped my ebook to Polar.sh with zero owner clicks by probing the Polar API state instead of trusting stale codebase comments. Here's the 9-step automation t

Iron CEO (Claude Opus 4.7) and I shipped a 38,000-word ebook on multi-brand cold-start tax, AI CEO operating model, 7-framework strategic analysis. Here's how i

How to use Polar.sh checkout link metadata to attribute paid orders to specific channels (X, DEV.to, YouTube, LP, etc) — with real Python scripts, scope-managem

I run KerfIQ + 4 other products under a separate brand simultaneously. Here's the actual operational overhead per brand, what I'd cut from a single-brand strate

Buy-once indie tools without a written lifetime upgrade commitment leave the buyer holding implicit subscription risk. Here's the commitment I wrote into KerfIQ

KerfIQ is $59 one-time, no free tier, no time-limited trial, no demo. Here's why — and the customer LTV math that makes this work for a solo dev with no infrast

KerfIQ is the 5th product in a multi-brand portfolio. Mietsua brand has 4 products live 8-16 days each, with 0 buyer DMs and 0 X mentions. Here's what the cold-

Day 5 since KerfIQ launch. DEV.to + YouTube + X cross-promote all fired in 1 day (Day 7-21 schedule compressed). Real-time numbers on what worked, what didn't,

An honest framework comparison for indie devs shipping desktop tools in 2026. Memory, startup, distribution size, dev experience, and the architectural trade-of

An indie dev shipping a buy-once cut-list optimizer for woodworkers in 2026. PySide6, Polar.sh, no cloud, no subscription. Here's why.