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Year2026 RoleSolo StackFastAPI · SQLite · Caddy · Docker StatusLive

[A one-paragraph lede in your own voice — the version of the story you'd tell if someone asked at a coffee shop. Not "impactful solution." More like: "I wanted to know how many real humans saw my portfolio, so I built the thing that counts them."]

The problem

[Placeholder — write this in first person, concrete. Why you felt you needed this over Plausible or Umami. Who the "user" is. What you could and couldn't learn from the tools that already exist. Two paragraphs max.]

What I tried

[Placeholder — a short chronology of the attempts. "First I did X. That didn't work because Y. So I moved to Z, which turned out to be…" Dates are good. Wrong turns are good.]

Shop detail [A bit of technical specificity that lands, e.g. "The tokens are HMAC-signed and IP-bound so the beacon can't be replayed from a server somewhere." Enough to signal you know what you're doing.]

What shipped

[Placeholder — describe the final shape in 2–3 sentences, then a short list of the interesting parts.]

What I'd do differently

[Placeholder — the honest postmortem. "I'd skip X. I'd do Y earlier. I was wrong about Z." This is the section that separates a real site from a generated one; take it seriously.]

  1. [Optional footnote — sources, linked posts, credit to a friend who paired on the hard bit.]
  2. [Optional footnote — a related thing you're curious about but haven't built yet.]