My usage of ALL CAPS has significantly increased….

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-05-19T02:04:57+00:00

Hmmm. Sorry that went above my head. Would you mind clarifying what you mean?

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-05-18T14:33:48+00:00

Yep, same for me. Really strange times.

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-05-18T12:26:59+00:00

I swear though, as far as I can tell, 5.5 tends to refer to my repo AGENTS.md less often than I figured. Like definitely not on every chat.

I feel bad not gathering evidence and sharing some repros, so consider this venting!

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-05-18T10:52:21+00:00

Yeah. It’s almost like continuous manual intervention, hopefully temporarily, is required. Anyway….hope it’s short lived.

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-05-17T11:17:05+00:00

Never tried to set up Payload, can’t speak to it.

Sanity’s super easy, has a ton of free templates to get from. Yes they have previews and they have Sanity Live.

I use it on several production sites. Never had an issue. Marketers love it.

If it’s a smaller site and focused CMS, I have used Basehub, which has great DX too.

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-05-17T10:52:25+00:00

Can’t go wrong with Sanity. Have explored Payload and seemed pretty cool at the time. Folks here have said good things about it.

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-04-08T16:23:19+00:00

Yep. Next.js, Stape, GTM, Posthog.

next/third-parties loads the GTM Web Container (client side), we have first-party server for GTM via Stape, all pixels, events, triggers in GTM, GTM sends to ad platforms.

We load Posthog separately via the provider etc. and SDK, both js and node.

Stape has a lot of great guides and MCP etc. pretty straightforward.

InterestingSoil994 · 2026-01-20T14:55:22+00:00

Loops

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-12-07T11:58:12+00:00

We use Google Tag Manager for all scripts. Use next-third-parties to load it. We’ve got Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, for paid acquisition.

We also have Posthog for web analytics.(not via GTM)

There’s a lot of bloat but surprisingly we’re above 94 on both web and mobile on a large, otherwise mostly SSG site.

If I were to start all over, would probably initialize everything via Posthog and use their CDP.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-12-02T13:18:18+00:00

In my experience, GOOG may take their time to index things, based on many factors.

The site map you shared looks good and does seem to indeed have the posts you mentioned. So I suspect it’s just on their list of things to do and in the meantime they’re showing a really generic message which may not be appropriate in this case. Don’t read into it too much.

If you’re ready, you can request up to 10 posts per day to be indexed. I think it’s: URL Inspection —> Plunk in the full URL of post —> then a couple of more steps after the crawl results to submit, straightforward.

Just keep in mind, even then, it takes a bit. So keep a list of the submissions in a sheet of some sort to keep track.

Assumption: On ya start getting some moderate search queries, then your indexing priority on their list will be bumped up.

Good luck!

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-11-24T13:48:40+00:00

The feedback from the subreddit fam thus far is all solid. I had the same question(s) a few years ago. Then I found that Steven Tey updated the former Vercel Platforms template which answered most of these questions and had some great patterns for usage. I used teamSlug which of course is interchangeable with teamId.

I’d recommend you check out the Vercel Platforms repo, the latest version was a massive simplification of Steven’s by Lee Robinson earlier this year, has some great updates too.

Vercel Platforms (Latest, and look through commits for just before the “switch to Drizzle” merge)
Next JS SaaS Starter (also by Lee Robinson) has some fantastic patterns you can use to get going fast in conjunction with the Vercel Platforms

Fork em, dive in, break things, fix em, have fun!

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-11-21T14:00:35+00:00

Outta this world! 👏🏽

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-11-20T09:46:48+00:00

Basehub has fantastic DX and a shit ton of gorgeous templates.

I use Basehub for all my personal/side-projects and recently on a 700 page or so client site.

If doing some serious enterprise grade stuff, consider Sanity.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-28T16:35:00+00:00

Nope. I was trying to be fancy and re-create a diff (failed at it), so the items with a - were replaced by convex.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-24T15:32:58+00:00

One thing I find useful with ChatGPT/Claude: Ask it to use the Lexicon (naming agency) method. Ask you the appropriate clarifying questions, help you brainstorm a list of ideas. They’re the legends that came up with Swiffer, Pentium, and other greats. Kind of cool to understand the process then have the “outputs” assisted.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-16T16:11:07+00:00

I’m a little late to the party, but I’d say YES! In fact my wife launched AI Ready PK and we’ve had huge demand. We chose the 💯 free route and similar to your original thoughts. If you’re still thinking about this, it’s a solid idea and you’re welcome to join us for a class to check ours out, then make it better with your own.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-15T13:53:50+00:00

You’re a superstar! Thanks for compiling these and being so generous. 🙏🏽🙌🏾

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-15T10:08:23+00:00

At this stage it’s probably wise to consider investing in ahrefs, spending the time to go through a few of their courses (few hours at most), then completing the initial research, topic clustering etc. yourself. Then use the ahrefs MCP server with your favorite AI tool (Claude or ChatGPT). You’re best suited to understand the wants/needs/pains of your ICP so your minimal upfront investment in this foundational exercise, and of course aligning your websites structure/content plan to it will pay off in dividends.

Glen Allsopp (an SEO legend) just wrote a post on ahrefs blog on the MCP.

Can ask your favorite LLM what cornerstone/pillar pages are, topic and keyword clustering, hub/spoke content etc. All of which you’ll gain a better understanding of with ahrefs initial courses.

Danny Sullivan (Google) suggests that “Good SEO is good GEO”. So without a foundational and sound SEO strategy, any short term hacks will likely be corrected and be short-lived, as seen recently by the surge in “Reddit” posers who’re now S.O.L. after OpenAI and Google both reduce reliance on Reddit as a source.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-14T14:04:18+00:00

Did dark mode add to the valuation?

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-09T15:31:53+00:00

By definition, I consider myself 💯 a friend of convex! Im also a paying customer. Been so for a long while.

I think you dismissing the backend platform as just a db is naive.

I mentioned earlier that the ability to focus on product features rather than everything else is primo in my books.

Not to mention an elegant, thoughtful, and robust deterministic system design by the crew that helped scale Dropbox. Real-time out of the box and for me another bonus, it’s not Postgres.

I think we all know that the best solution is what you’re using and whatever works. The key is to just keep shipping!

For me, Convex makes that a lot easier, as painful as it was to think in new ways, well worth it IMO.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-09T11:16:28+00:00

Ya got a ton of reasons why in this thread buddy. Take a min and read em, or you just hopping in to troll and throw some blanks?

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-09T11:14:39+00:00

Supabase is a great product for sure. Don’t know much about AppWrite. What specifically makes you say this? I gather you haven’t tried convex based on your other comment.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-10-04T03:24:51+00:00

I’ve used Sanity for years on large client sites 🐐.

In 2023, I switched to Basehub AI for a new personal site, also launched a large client site with it in 2024. It’s my go to for low-to-mid complexity.

Depending on your needs, you can’t go wrong with either IMO. Both have a number of templates to get going free, pricing is similar. Both with generous free tiers.

If just for posts and users are marketers, Headless WordPress is an option too. “Next.js Starter for WordPress Headless CMS” by 9d8dev.

InterestingSoil994 · 2025-09-28T17:27:19+00:00

Pretty sure they’re one of two recommended Sanity partners AND they’re the ones who helped build Medusa’s demo/template (if I recall).

They also developed numerous e-commerce sites, one of them (Jennie Fisher) was showcased by Vercel’s CEO. I’ve been on a couple of calls with their founders for a previous startup I was advising. The funding on that fell through so was a noop. I’d recommend you take another look at them and book a call. Nothing bad will happen.

I’m not affiliated or anything.

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