Software Subscriptions I Canceled Because I Built My Own
I cancelled $310 a month in software subscriptions and built my own replacements. My bill didn’t go down. The real math, and what I kept paying for.
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My Software Bill Is $583 a Month. The Blog Is $328.
I pulled every invoice and added up what my software stack costs: $583.13 a month. The blog half came out bigger than I expected, and hosting isn’t why.
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I Don’t Install Claude Code Skills, I Customize Them
I customize Claude Code skills instead of running them as I found them. The rule I use, two worked examples, and a generator that builds one around you.
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Build a Print on Demand Sales Tracker With Airtable
180 of my 385 print on demand designs were never even uploaded. Here’s the Airtable sales tracker that showed me, built from three CSV exports.
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Build a Reselling Profit Dashboard With Airtable
169 items, 66 sales, and one page that finally told me what I cleared after fees, shipping and what I paid at the estate sale.
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Build Your Own Reading Tracker With Airtable and n8n
Six Airtable tables, one n8n workflow and a dashboard that tells me my top trope of the year. Here’s the build, and a generator for your own.
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How I Track What I Actually Got Done Without Logging It
Track what you actually got done without logging anything. I read the trail my work already leaves and sort it by kind. Here is the skill I use.
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How I Make Multiple Pins From One Blog Post
I want several pin images per post, and I can’t spot my own quotable lines. So something else reads the post and hands me five to pick from.
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How to Organize Screenshots You Save and Never Open Again
I built a Claude Code skill to organize screenshots by why I saved them, not what’s in them. Copy the file and point it at your own folder.
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What a Claude Code Skill Is, and How to Make One
A Claude Code skill is a text file of instructions Claude reads when it fits what you asked. Copy the 22-line example below and save your first one today.
