Dan

This is super stupid mistake and I feel bad about not checking it earlier.

So, check you pages guys and make sure full HTML is render and PAY ATTENTION WHEN USING LOTTIES or any other shit that needs document/window.

Press F to pay respect to TopTool...

Google clicks went down, DR went down, my self-esteem went down. I don't know if TopTool will recover from that, I just know that it would surpass $1k MRR in the very close time if it wouldn't happen and probably the traffic would only rise, not decrease.

I fixed that SHIT and HTML started to render correctly on the page. THANKS FUCKING CONFETTI for breaking my app and MRR $$$ 🤯

So i started look for a solution, it turned out to be very easy, i just had to dynamically import the component...

But it seems that even with 'use client' stated, it tried to import that package and was failing because document/window is not defined on the server side 👇

So i analyzed the errors from vercel more carefully and it seemed that 5xx errors were coming from lottie package, that was installed for a very long time and it was working perfectly before.

The lottie was rendered on a client, it had 'use client' in the component.

I opened the web and tried to inspect page source and noticed that I only have FUCKING scripts in the returned HTML, which means that pages were rendered on a client using javascript. JS is shit for SEO. I was blaming everything - myself, nextjs, vercel and supabase.

I checked the logs in the vercel and I noticed that error rate was around 80% which is crazy and I didn't do any breaking changes in the last months, i was shocked.

BUT THAN THIS SHIT HAPPENED. I started checking my Google Console to see how we're doing and I was seeing a huge drop in clicks from Google.

I couldn't understand why:
- Traffic goes down, amount of indexed pages as well.
- I started seeing 5xx errors in Google console.

Financially it was also doing good, i almost made $900 MRR in peak and it was growing, I planned to add additional products and hoped I would surpass $1MRR with that, it was very close.

So I had a directory which did pretty good for the last 12 months, I got around 500k clicks from Google organically and was really happy about that. Here is how my Google Console looked like 👇

HOW I ALMOST F*CKING KILLED MY $5k ARR BUSINESS WITH STUPID MISTAKE
No promo. No pitch. Just pain. My ass still hurts from this. 🧵
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This project took 1.5 years, many rewrites, and a lot of love ❤️

GitHub - BlogBowl/BlogBowl: Open-source plug-and-play blogging platform. Launch SEO-friendly blogs, changelogs, and write newsletters without coding. 🔥 Open-source plug-and-play blogging platform. Launch SEO-friendly blogs, changelogs, and write newsletters without coding. 🔥 - BlogBowl/BlogBowl

If you want to self-host and take full control of your blog stack — check out the repo 👇

⭐️ github.com/BlogBowl/Bl...

Every star means a lot - we’re still small, but growing fast ❤️

The AI-powered features (SEO automation, AI article writing, etc.) are part of the premium version - but everything else is 100% open.

With the open-source version, you can:

📝 Manage blogs & changelogs
💌 Send newsletters
🎨 Customize templates & design
👥 Add multiple authors
⚡️ Get built-in analytics

All without code.

I started BlogBowl because setting up and maintaining a simple blog or changelog for a SaaS product was way too painful.

Too many tools, too much setup, and not enough focus on content.

So I built something better.

🚀 After 1.5 years of building, BlogBowl is now open source.

An all-in-one platform to manage your blog, changelog, and help docs - now free to self-host.
👇

I am trying to sell one of my projects on Flippa 😀

To be honest do not believe that I will be able to sell it for the reasonable amount, but just wanted to give it a try and see how it will end up.

Anyone here had experience selling website on Flippa?

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That's what I am doing 😉

Exactly man, all of them. Didn't touch them at all 😉

Without getting featured, it’s nearly impossible to reach the top of the day…

But hey, it’s Halloween… so let’s try something new 👻

C'mon guys, Trick or MAKE US FEATURED,
@producthunt.bsky.social? ❤️

I’ve tried launching BlogBowl 3 times on Product Hunt… and never got featured 🫣

It honestly hurts - 1.5 years of work, fully open-source, solving a real problem.
IT EVEN HAS AI INSIDE IT 🤖

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I finally found time to start preparing open source version of BlogBowl 🔥
Let's see how it goes...
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I like to meet new people, to show the the product and to hear from some of the "Ahaa, it's cool!" or "This is the best AI written blog post I've ever seen", it makes me happy like a kid 😅

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Also received a lot of feedback on the platform - super valuable to see how people really use the product.

Now I am at the point where real marketing and networking comes in and I honestly like it...

I had a crazy and productive week.

Lot's of calls, met a lot of new people and I am super happy that BlogBowl right now is at the point, where it helps me to connect with amazing people...

You don’t need to know someone liked your post right away. Check later, focus more.

No plugins, no chrome extension, just turn of your notifications and see how much focus time you'll have 😉

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I was feeling really overwhelmed by lots of distractions recently.
I write to X, linkedIn, indiehackers and a lot of notifications were coming.

Few days ago I turned off all notifcations, now I feel way better...

I finally had time to go over and prepare lots of listicle and comparison topics to boost my SEO.

Now, BlogBowl will write and publish blog post daily completely with AI.
No effort. No headaches. Just set it and forget it.

i built a monster 🤯