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I built an embeddable screen-time calculator that doesn't phone home

Dev.to · Sam_tj 🌐 Frontend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I built an embeddable screen-time calculator that doesn't phone home

A tiny iframe widget with no tracking script, no backend, and no callback to my server — just local arithmetic, postMessage for height, and a deep link to the f

My site-indexation checker passed once, then failed 8 times in a row. Same query, same minute.

Dev.to · Sam_tj 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

My site-indexation checker passed once, then failed 8 times in a row. Same query, same minute.

I have been running a small acquisition programme for an iOS side project for about six weeks,...

I swept 59 keywords across 6 App Store storefronts. My app ranks for exactly 2 — and both are just my own title.

Dev.to · Sam_tj 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I swept 59 keywords across 6 App Store storefronts. My app ranks for exactly 2 — and both are just my own title.

A reproducible measurement of App Store search indexing, plus the two instrument bugs that made 28 rounds of my previous data worthless.

My IndexNow submissions returned 202 for two weeks. None of them worked.

Dev.to · Sam_tj 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

My IndexNow submissions returned 202 for two weeks. None of them worked.

A 202 from IndexNow does not mean your URLs were accepted. If your site is on a subpath, the default key lookup 404s and you get silently rejected — while one e

I analyzed 204 screen-time apps to find out why mine gets zero downloads

Dev.to · Sam_tj 📋 Product Management ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I analyzed 204 screen-time apps to find out why mine gets zero downloads

I shipped a screen time blocker and got one review. So I pulled the App Store data on 204 competitors to find out what the ones that grew had that mine didn't.