The numbers, real.
Every figure on this page comes from a live API or the actual corpus on disk. Rounded to remove false precision. Updated every hour. If a number embarrasses me, I leave it.
MRR
$0/ mo
rounded to nearest $5
Active subscribers
000
paying members today
New · 30d
+0
started in last 30 days
Churn · 30d
—
denominator too small to be meaningful
Lifetime revenue
$0
all paid invoices · rounded to nearest $10
Newsletter subscribers
001
founding window · under 100
Active arcs
3
multi-episode threads in progress
Episodes published
3
across all arcs
Total essays
017
Total words
11k
Posts this month
06
Avg essay length
637w
- 01Learning by shipping1,279w
- 02The half-life of a good tool1,065w
- 03Taste as a deploy gate987w
- 04Shipping a killable feature835w
- 05Annual: 2025815w
- 2026-05-31Field note: Maysignal
- 2026-05-04Learning by shippinglearning
- 2026-05-04Taste as a deploy gatetaste
- 2026-05-04The half-life of a good toolworld
- 2026-05-04The system I actually useteach