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Both are right.", "publishDate": "2026-10-05" }, { "title": "Chatbase on the free plan: we fed it our own site and asked it twenty questions we already knew the answers to", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/chatbase/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/chatbase/index.md", "description": "Chatbase's free plan, tested on our own site: 18 of 20 answers exact, none invented, one credit a message. The 1 MB cap dropped 22 pages, homepage included.", "publishDate": "2026-10-03" }, { "title": "Google Antigravity at $0: we gave it the same booking app and it ran out of models by half past four", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/antigravity-free/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/antigravity-free/index.md", "description": "Google Antigravity's free tier, run through our frozen 12-gate booking-app test. Gemini, Claude and GPT-OSS all hit the weekly quota wall in one afternoon.", "publishDate": "2026-10-01" }, { "title": "Your users can pay your AI bill with ChatGPT. OpenAI keeps the meter.", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/openai-keeps-the-meter/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/openai-keeps-the-meter/index.md", "description": "ChatGPT Plus and Pro users can now spend their plan in participating apps. What that does to a small AI product's costs, and what OpenAI still controls.", "publishDate": "2026-09-30" }, { "title": "How to use OpenCode: the open-source terminal agent", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-opencode/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-opencode/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to OpenCode, the open-source terminal AI coding agent: 75+ model providers or a local model, the cost, and how it compares to Claude Code.", "publishDate": "2026-09-29" }, { "title": "How to use Replit Agent: from prompt to deployed app", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-replit-agent/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-replit-agent/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Replit Agent: the build-and-deploy workflow, 2026 pricing and effort-based checkpoint billing, and how it compares to Bolt and Lovable.", "publishDate": "2026-09-27" }, { "title": "How to use Cline: the open-source agent in your editor", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-cline/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-cline/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Cline, the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and the terminal: Plan and Act, checkpoints, local models, costs, and MCP.", "publishDate": "2026-09-25" }, { "title": "How to use v0: generate the UI, get real code", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-v0/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-v0/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to v0, Vercel's generative-UI builder: what it builds, how to get the code out, the 2026 credit pricing, and how it compares to Bolt.", "publishDate": "2026-09-23" }, { "title": "How to use Bolt.new: build an app from a prompt", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-bolt-new/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-bolt-new/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Bolt.new, StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder: the token model and free tier, owning your code, and how it compares to Lovable.", "publishDate": "2026-09-21" }, { "title": "How to use Zed: the fast, open-source editor with AI", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-zed/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-zed/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Zed, the fast open-source editor: the AI agent panel, a local model via Ollama, external agents like Claude and Codex over ACP, and Zeta.", "publishDate": "2026-09-19" }, { "title": "How to use LM Studio: run local LLMs with a GUI", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-lm-studio/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-lm-studio/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to LM Studio: download a model in-app, run the local OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible server, and connect VS Code, Codex, and Claude Code.", "publishDate": "2026-09-17" }, { "title": "Codex on the ChatGPT Free plan: we gave it $0 and the same booking app", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/codex-free/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/codex-free/index.md", "description": "OpenAI Codex on the $0 ChatGPT plan, run through our frozen 12-gate booking-app test. 12 of 12, no Astra, and a 30-day meter that one build ate 37% of.", "publishDate": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "How to use Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-aider/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-aider/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Aider, the terminal AI pair programmer: install, run it in a git repo, the in-chat commands, architect mode, and local models via Ollama.", "publishDate": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "How to use Ollama: run AI models on your own machine", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-ollama/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-ollama/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Ollama: install it, run a model, pick one that fits your RAM, wire it into your editor and agents via the local API, and Ollama Cloud.", "publishDate": "2026-09-13" }, { "title": "The frontier now ships twice. The second copy is not for sale.", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/the-frontier-twice/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/the-frontier-twice/index.md", "description": "Anthropic, Google and OpenAI each shipped a public model and a vetted-access copy in one week. What the gate asks for, and what it means for a solo builder.", "publishDate": "2026-09-13" }, { "title": "How to make your product citable: an AEO walkthrough", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/make-your-product-citable-aeo-walkthrough/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/make-your-product-citable-aeo-walkthrough/index.md", "description": "A hands-on AEO walkthrough from a site that instrumented its own citability: the plumbing files, a zero-to-six Bing reading, an llms.txt server-log test.", "publishDate": "2026-09-11" }, { "title": "Stripe or a merchant of record: the checkout decision", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/stripe-or-merchant-of-record/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/stripe-or-merchant-of-record/index.md", "description": "Stripe vs Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, and Gumroad on a $19/mo product: the fee math six ways, plus the sales-tax liability Stripe leaves you holding.", "publishDate": "2026-09-09" }, { "title": "Hooks, skills, subagents, plugins, CLAUDE.md: what each is for", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/claude-code-mechanisms-measured/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/claude-code-mechanisms-measured/index.md", "description": "Claude Code's five extension mechanisms sorted by when they load into context: CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, hooks, plugins. Token costs measured.", "publishDate": "2026-09-07" }, { "title": "What it costs to run a vibe-coded app", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-it-costs-to-run-an-app/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-it-costs-to-run-an-app/index.md", "description": "Vercel + Supabase versus a Hetzner or DigitalOcean VPS across three stages, priced from each vendor's own pages, with the fine print that flips the math.", "publishDate": "2026-09-05" }, { "title": "Ship an MCP server for your product", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/ship-an-mcp-server-for-your-product/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/ship-an-mcp-server-for-your-product/index.md", "description": "Build an MCP server under the 2026-07-28 spec, plus distribution receipts from @okaneland/mcp: the download curve, six directories, one listing still stuck.", "publishDate": "2026-09-03" }, { "title": "The MCP tax: what each server costs before your first prompt", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/the-mcp-context-tax/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/the-mcp-context-tax/index.md", "description": "We measured the tool-definition token cost of ten popular MCP servers, and when that cost hits in current Claude Code. Per-server table, keep-or-cut verdicts.", "publishDate": "2026-09-01" }, { "title": "Blast radius: what your AI agent can destroy", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-your-ai-agent-can-destroy/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-your-ai-agent-can-destroy/index.md", "description": "A verified ledger of AI-agent security failures: runaway spend, a nine-second production wipe, MCP data leaks, malicious skills, and the guardrail for each.", "publishDate": "2026-08-30" }, { "title": "A worm is after your AI keys. The install is the door.", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/the-install-is-the-door/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/the-install-is-the-door/index.md", "description": "A self-spreading npm worm hit 400+ packages and steals the API keys in your AI tools, hiding in .claude and .vscode config. The install ran its code.", "publishDate": "2026-08-29" }, { "title": "How to price a B2B SaaS", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/how-to-price-a-b2b-saas/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/how-to-price-a-b2b-saas/index.md", "description": "How to price a B2B SaaS: the three pricing models (seat, usage, value), cost-plus vs value-based, and why underpricing is the common failure.", "publishDate": "2026-08-28" }, { "title": "How to build an app with AI from scratch", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/build-an-app-with-ai-from-scratch/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/build-an-app-with-ai-from-scratch/index.md", "description": "A map of the real path from idea to shipped app with AI: scope, tool choice, the 70% wall, deploy limits, security, and first users. Prices verified 2026-08-09.", "publishDate": "2026-08-26" }, { "title": "Can you actually learn while vibe coding?", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/can-you-learn-while-vibe-coding/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/can-you-learn-while-vibe-coding/index.md", "description": "Can you learn while vibe coding? Only by breaking its defining rule: read the code. The three moves that build real understanding from AI-written code.", "publishDate": "2026-08-24" }, { "title": "The vibe-coding wins are real. So is the denominator", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/after-the-vibecode-wins-and-denominator/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/after-the-vibecode-wins-and-denominator/index.md", "description": "The vibe coding success stories are real. What the ARR figures hide, the acquisition fine print, and the denominator from Pieter Levels' own ledger.", "publishDate": "2026-08-22" }, { "title": "How to get your first 10 users", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/first-10-users/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/first-10-users/index.md", "description": "Where builders actually got their first 10 users and customers: the receipts, the catch each story carries, and the plays that work with no audience.", "publishDate": "2026-08-20" }, { "title": "We pinged 522 vibe-coded launches. Here is how many answered", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/how-many-vibe-coded-launches-are-alive/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/how-many-vibe-coded-launches-are-alive/index.md", "description": "We HTTP-checked 522 vibe-coded apps from the Lovable and Bolt showcases. At least 1 in 9 is already dark. The dead floor, the age curve, full dataset.", "publishDate": "2026-08-18" }, { "title": "The AI coding agent field guide (2026)", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/ai-coding-agent-field-guide/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/ai-coding-agent-field-guide/index.md", "description": "A survey of the 2026 AI coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Cursor, Zed, OpenCode, and the Windsurf story. What each is for, and how to choose.", "publishDate": "2026-08-16" }, { "title": "Is your vibe-coded app secure? Run this audit", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/is-your-vibe-coded-app-secure/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/is-your-vibe-coded-app-secure/index.md", "description": "What the security research actually says about AI-generated code, why vibe-coded apps leak, and an eight-point self-audit you run on your own app.", "publishDate": "2026-08-14" }, { "title": "How to cut your AI coding bill", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/cut-your-ai-coding-bill/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/cut-your-ai-coding-bill/index.md", "description": "What AI coding actually costs in 2026, the subscription-vs-API break-even, and four vendor-documented ways to cut the bill. All prices dated.", "publishDate": "2026-08-12" }, { "title": "Cursor vs Claude Code for vibe coding: a real head-to-head", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/cursor-vs-claude-code/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/cursor-vs-claude-code/index.md", "description": "Cursor Pro vs Claude Code across two unlike builds and 24 frozen gates. They tied both times, 23/24 each. What still separates the two $20 agents.", "publishDate": "2026-08-09" }, { "title": "Web Anatomy: the annotations are worth your time, the statistics are not", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/web-anatomy/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/web-anatomy/index.md", "description": "We tested Web Anatomy's rubric for reproducibility, ran its analyzer on our own page, and checked its analyses against live sites. Worth it? Situational.", "publishDate": "2026-08-09" }, { "title": "Nothing leaked. That is the part worth worrying about.", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/nothing-leaked/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/nothing-leaked/index.md", "description": "Shared Claude chats hit Google. Nothing was breached: users published them. Share quietly became publish, and builders keep shipping the same gap.", "publishDate": "2026-08-09" }, { "title": "AI agents do not choose what to sell. They fill in a number a human left blank.", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-agent-economies-charge-for/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-agent-economies-charge-for/index.md", "description": "Seven agent economies read to primary sources: who set the price, who paid, and what the money bought. The agent supplies the number, a human supplies the good.", "publishDate": "2026-08-08" }, { "title": "An AI built a forum for AI agents. Permanence costs $1.", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/priced-permanence/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/priced-permanence/index.md", "description": "An agent handed a domain built a forum addressed to software. Posting is free; the one priced good is permanence. What that costs, and who actually paid.", "publishDate": "2026-08-08" }, { "title": "The $5,000 tell: AI vendors are selling you human QA for their own AI", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/the-5000-dollar-tell/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/the-5000-dollar-tell/index.md", "description": "An AI ad agent spent 173 credits ($57) on one 40-second ad. Above it: a $5,000/mo human-QA tier. What a vendor's own pricing says about AI quality.", "publishDate": "2026-08-01" }, { "title": "Is distribution really the moat? What actually defends an AI product", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/distribution-moat-ai/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/distribution-moat-ai/index.md", "description": "Is distribution the moat in AI? Gemini surged on bundling while Copilot stalled. Which kinds of distribution defend a product, and which wash away.", "publishDate": "2026-08-01" }, { "title": "The vibe coding split is a pricing event", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/vibe-coding-split-pricing-event/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/vibe-coding-split-pricing-event/index.md", "description": "The search data split vibe coding in two. The casual mode keeps the name; the disciplined mode got its own: agentic engineering. Two words end one price.", "publishDate": "2026-07-31" }, { "title": "The year Claude subscribers sued over limits is the year the limits mostly went up", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/claude-code-limits/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/claude-code-limits/index.md", "description": "Claude Code limits, mapped from 2,122 subscriber posts: the 5-hour window, the weekly caps, the published per-plan bands, the lawsuit, and the checklist.", "publishDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "title": "Getting paid for AI work: deposits, deadlines, and the clients to refuse", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/getting-paid-for-ai-work/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/getting-paid-for-ai-work/index.md", "description": "How AI freelancers get paid: the nonpayment base rate, deposit and milestone structure, new 30-day payment laws, and the client red flags that say walk.", "publishDate": "2026-07-30" }, { "title": "Is vibe coding dead, or just renamed? What the record shows", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/is-vibe-coding-dead/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/is-vibe-coding-dead/index.md", "description": "Vibe coding isn't dead: adoption is at record highs. What's fading is the word, split into casual vibe coding and agentic engineering. Naming timeline, sourced.", "publishDate": "2026-07-27" }, { "title": "The new SDLC with vibe coding: what Google's paper actually says", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/new-sdlc-with-vibe-coding/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/new-sdlc-with-vibe-coding/index.md", "description": "Google's New SDLC With Vibe Coding whitepaper, explained and fact-checked: the vibe coding to agentic engineering spectrum, and which of its numbers hold up.", "publishDate": "2026-07-26" }, { "title": "Cursor Pro: we gave it $20 and a startup idea", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/cursor/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/cursor/index.md", "description": "We gave Cursor Pro one founder pitch and it built a working SaaS: named itself, 23 passing tests, CSV import, a freemium demo checkout. What $20 buys.", "publishDate": "2026-07-25" }, { "title": "What a customer actually costs: CAC by channel for a one-person AI product", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/cac-by-channel-ai-product/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/cac-by-channel-ai-product/index.md", "description": "Real CAC by channel for a solo AI builder: paid search near $$800, SEO about $$205, owned channels near zero, the 3:1 payback bar, and the AI churn tax.", "publishDate": "2026-07-22" }, { "title": "How to use n8n, and when to write the code instead", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-n8n/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-n8n/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to n8n: execution pricing vs Zapier tasks, self-hosting, AI agent nodes on a leash, real client rates, and the license trap for agencies.", "publishDate": "2026-07-20" }, { "title": "Perplexity Pro limits: the shrinking $20 plan, in 1,024 posts", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/perplexity-pro-limits/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/perplexity-pro-limits/index.md", "description": "Perplexity Pro limits, mapped from 1,024 coded subscriber posts: three quota cuts in eight months, why people cancel, what Max adds, and what to verify first.", "publishDate": "2026-07-19" }, { "title": "Productize the service: turn bespoke AI work into one thing you can sell twice", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/productize-your-ai-service/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/productize-your-ai-service/index.md", "description": "How to turn bespoke AI work into one fixed-scope, fixed-price offer that repeats: Designjoy and Conversion Factory receipts, scope rules, and the token bill.", "publishDate": "2026-07-19" }, { "title": "Does building in public actually pay?", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/build-in-public-revenue/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/build-in-public-revenue/index.md", "description": "The receipts on building in public: a zero-ad $80M exit, an inflated ARR confession, 0.06% follower conversion, a $500 median, and the gates that decide.", "publishDate": "2026-07-18" }, { "title": "How to use Lovable, and when to take the code and go", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-lovable/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-use-lovable/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to Lovable: the plan-first workflow, the credit math, the security incidents, and when to export the repo and finish in Cursor.", "publishDate": "2026-07-17" }, { "title": "Studio 03 · Tom Huang, Open Design: \"Stars are not revenue wearing a trench coat\"", "section": "The Studio", "url": "https://okaneland.com/studio/tom-huang/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/studio/tom-huang/index.md", "description": "Open Design shipped 11 days after Claude Design and hit 1M+ installs on 77k stars. Tom Huang on the file-first method, the $200 build, and why he gave it away.", "publishDate": "2026-07-16" }, { "title": "What a ChatGPT citation is worth, and which answer engine a small site can win", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-a-chatgpt-citation-is-worth/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/what-a-chatgpt-citation-is-worth/index.md", "description": "What an AI citation is worth, fact-checked: the conversion premium, why AI traffic is really ChatGPT, the 11% engine overlap, and why a small site can win.", "publishDate": "2026-07-16" }, { "title": "AI made code free. Accountability is the scarce part now.", "section": "The Signal", "url": "https://okaneland.com/signal/ai-made-code-free/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/signal/ai-made-code-free/index.md", "description": "Godot banned autonomous AI agents and said why: AI cannot take responsibility. The open-source AI bans are a repricing, and solo builders are on both sides.", "publishDate": "2026-07-16" }, { "title": "Studio 02 · Gabriel Amzallag: \"I only build it if someone pays\"", "section": "The Studio", "url": "https://okaneland.com/studio/gabriel-amzallag/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/studio/gabriel-amzallag/index.md", "description": "Gabriel Amzallag pre-sold Web Anatomy before building it: a library of what converts on landing pages, agent-written on a €150/month stack. First sale, €99.", "publishDate": "2026-07-15" }, { "title": "How to make AI UGC ads, and when to pay a human instead", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-make-ai-ugc-ads/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/how-to-make-ai-ugc-ads/index.md", "description": "A practical guide to AI UGC ads: the Arcads, Creatify, and HeyGen workflow, hook-matrix testing, the real credit math, and when to pay a human creator instead.", "publishDate": "2026-07-14" }, { "title": "Open Design: the free design studio your coding agent runs", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/open-design/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/open-design/index.md", "description": "We ran Open Design end to end with Claude Code as the engine: brand extraction from our own site, a component kit, a media kit, and the real token bill.", "publishDate": "2026-07-12" }, { "title": "Is vibe coding worth it? What the numbers say", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/is-vibe-coding-worth-it/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/is-vibe-coding-worth-it/index.md", "description": "Yes, with receipts: an $80M exit, measured speed gains, 2026 loyalty data, and the maintenance and security habits that separate winners. The numbers, cited.", "publishDate": "2026-07-12" }, { "title": "The vibe coding stack: what to pay for and what to skip", "section": "The Primer", "url": "https://okaneland.com/primer/vibe-coding-stack/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/primer/vibe-coding-stack/index.md", "description": "The vibe coding stack, slot by slot: editor, agent, app builder. 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Powerful, but most need Pro.", "publishDate": "2026-06-22" }, { "title": "AEO and GEO: one real study, a pile of mythology, and a traffic cliff", "section": "The Study", "url": "https://okaneland.com/study/aeo-and-geo-what-the-research-says/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/study/aeo-and-geo-what-the-research-says/index.md", "description": "GEO and AEO, fact-checked against the research: the one controlled study, what moves AI citations, the llms.txt and schema myths, and the real traffic data.", "publishDate": "2026-06-22" }, { "title": "Surfer SEO: a strong scoring engine wrapped in a paywall maze", "section": "The Proof", "url": "https://okaneland.com/proof/surfer-seo/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/proof/surfer-seo/index.md", "description": "We ran Surfer end to end on a live site, then checked our verdict against real users. The dual SEO and AI-Search scoring is real. The AI writer is not.", "publishDate": "2026-06-21" }, { "title": "The economics of a one-person AI business: what the MRR screenshots leave out", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/economics-of-a-one-person-ai-business/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/economics-of-a-one-person-ai-business/index.md", "description": "The research on what a one-person AI business actually keeps: gross margins, churn, card fees, and the gap between MRR and income. 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The research on where it helps, where it bills you, and what to do.", "publishDate": "2026-06-20" }, { "title": "Pricing your AI app: the psychology that holds up, and the tricks that fall apart", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/pricing-psychology-that-holds-up/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/pricing-psychology-that-holds-up/index.md", "description": "The pricing psychology with real evidence behind it, the famous tactics that collapse on replication, and how to price your own AI product.", "publishDate": "2026-06-20" }, { "title": "What to charge for AI work without lowballing yourself", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/pricing-ai-work/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/pricing-ai-work/index.md", "description": "How to price AI builds, automations, and retainers so being fast does not make you cheap, and how to set a number you can defend.", "publishDate": "2026-06-19" }, { "title": "How to land your first AI client", "section": "The Ledger", "url": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/first-ai-client/", "markdown": "https://okaneland.com/ledger/first-ai-client/index.md", "description": "Land your first AI client: what the small-business AI data says, where the work comes from, and how to turn a warm lead into a paid build.", "publishDate": "2026-06-18" } ] }