Recently I heard about a bold claim that's hard to ignore:

"Software is a commodity. Distribution is the only moat left."

And the data is starting to back that up.

I formally studied marketing as a university program (5 years), and due to inspiration on social networks, it feels completely natural to do it, even easy to learn (because most of the time you just guess what might work for you).

BUT

I automated my site's indexing checks this month and hit a wall that surprised me. The Search Console API will inspect URLs, report coverage state and resubmit sitemaps. The separate Indexing API only accepts job postings and livestream pages. The one thing everyone actually wants, the Request Indexing button, has no API at all.

So my daily job does everything the API allows, inspects up to 160 URLs, resubmits the sitemap, then writes a shortlist of URLs stuck in Discovered or Crawled but not indexed. The last step is me clicking Request Indexing by hand off that list.

Has anyone found a legitimate way around this, or is the manual click just the toll Google charges?

Always see people buying .com names and making logos before even building the actual tool.

I used to think you need the whole setup ready to look legit, but buying tech stuff early feels like a waste if the idea flops.

How long do you run on free subdomains or cheap placeholders before dropping money on official branding?

Lately, after spending a lot of time online, I ve noticed that the way I consume content has changed, and honestly, not for the better.

When I consume content on social media (or through screens in general), I tend to pay less attention, and my attention span feels much shorter.

Every quarter, I set goals and then review how I did.

I started doing this two years ago after realising that New Year's resolutions simply don't work for me. To be fair, I don't always hit my quarterly goals either, but my success rate is much higher.