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I built 47 API tutorial pages with one Next.js script — they got indexed by Google before I told anyone they existed

DEV Community·APIBuilderHQ·about 1 month ago
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I shipped a developer tool recently and immediately ran into the same wall every solo founder hits: how do you get developers to find your product when you have zero marketing budget and no audience? The conventional advice is to write blog posts, post on Reddit, or snipe API-related threads on social media. I'd done some of that. The traffic was real but slow, and worse, it was generic. These were visitors who wanted to read about my product, not visitors actively trying to solve a problem my product happens to solve. Then I noticed something in my own developer behavior. When I need to call the Stripe API to create a customer, I don't read Stripe's documentation. I Google "stripe api create customer example" and I look for a code snippet in the first result. Developers don't search for tools. They search for snippets. So I stopped writing think-pieces and started building an infrastructure designed to answer those exact searches.…

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