Blog Building

10 Days In. Let’s Talk Real Numbers. I started this blog on May 28, 2026. Today marks roughly 10 days of running reapbountifully.com — a blog built almost entirely with AI tools, managed by a solo developer, and designed as an experiment in whether AI-assisted content creation can actually generate revenue. Here’s my promise: I’m […]

I launched reapbountifully.com on May 28, 2026. By June 3rd — less than a week later — Google had indexed multiple pages and I was already seeing impressions in Google Search Console. This wasn’t luck. It was a deliberate, step-by-step process that anyone can follow. Here’s exactly what I did to get my blog indexed

Ten days into running this blog, I opened my WordPress dashboard and saw something that made my heart skip a beat: “2 comments pending approval.” 첫 댓글이다! (First comments!) Someone actually read my blog. Someone cared enough to leave a comment. Maybe two someones! I was already mentally composing my thoughtful, gracious reply. This was

This is Part 3 of my “Running a Blog from Telegram” series. If you missed the earlier parts: Part 1 covered building the bot and publishing my first post. Part 2 covered the feedback disaster — how the bot started auto-publishing garbage, and how I fixed it with a draft review flow and scheduling buttons.

If you’ve read my guide on installing Claude Code, you know it runs in the terminal. No fancy chat window. No drag-and-drop. Just a blinking cursor waiting for your input. So here’s the question everyone asks: how do you show Claude Code what you’re looking at? When I’m stuck on a WordPress settings page, staring

You don’t need to know how to code. Seriously. If you can open an app on your Mac, you can use Claude Code. The problem is, most guides out there assume you already know what a “terminal” is, what “Node.js” means, or how to type commands. This guide assumes none of that. I’m going to

In Part 1, I showed how I built a Telegram bot that lets me publish blog posts from my phone. Send a topic in Korean, get a polished English article on my WordPress site. It felt magical. That magic lasted exactly one post. The Post That Exposed Everything June 3rd was election day in South

The Problem: Great Ideas Die in Commute Traffic Here’s the thing about running a blog as a side hustle — the best ideas never come when you’re sitting at your desk. They come when you’re packed into a Seoul subway car at 8:47 AM, holding a ceiling handle with one hand and your phone with

I knew nothing about SEO before starting this blog. I mean, I knew it stood for Search Engine Optimization. But the actual mechanics of how to get Google to show my posts to people? No idea. So I did what I always do — I asked Claude. And what followed was basically an SEO crash

This blog has been live for three days. That is not a typo — three days. And already there are things I did not expect, problems I had to fix, and actual data to look at. Here is the unfiltered recap of my first few days as a blogger. The Numbers (So Far) I asked