Field Reports
Field Reports
What actually happened on real ventures. Numbers, screenshots, the good and the ugly. Captains running real businesses, not curated case studies. New entries land as ventures hit milestones.
All field reports
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Answer Engine Optimization: The Exact Format ChatGPT Cites (With Proof)
A page ranked #79 on Google gets cited by ChatGPT constantly. We tore it apart to find the exact format AI rewards — and the 5-move formula you can copy. Measured proof inside.
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Claude Code vs Codex: 6 Months In, Here's My Honest Split
Not a benchmark war — a working founder's real split between Claude Code and Codex, how it shifted from 100/0 to 60/40, the commodity facts as of June 2026, and how to choose per task.
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Vercel vs Cloudflare: The Honest Case for Switching
A measured case for Cloudflare over Vercel: the pricing surprises, the lock-in, and why the whole-network stack (Workers, D1, R2, KV) wins. Fair to Vercel, honest about the trade-offs.
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How I Discovered the Captain's Flywheel
I didn't theorize this framework and apply it. I built 15 versions of an AI agent named Gary, and the methodology emerged from the practice. The flywheel was lived before it was named.