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Two thirds of FutComp's traffic came from ChatGPT. Here's what we did.
In its first full month, FutComp got 1,100 of its 1,700 new users from AI assistants and 86 from Google. This is what we did to the site to earn that, what the numbers do and don't prove, and how much of it transfers to ordinary client work.
FutComp: building a free EA FC 27 companion, from the data up
A free, account-free website that answers the questions FC 27 Ultimate Team players ask every time they open the transfer market or build a squad. What it does, how it’s built, and the parts that turned out to be hard.
Desk: building a non-custodial web3 trading terminal for Polymarket
A cross-platform desktop terminal for Polymarket’s on-chain prediction markets: fast, data-dense, keyboard-driven — and it never touches a user’s funds. Here is how it’s built, and why.