The honest update first
$0 MRR. 0 paying customers. 24 days left before my 27th birthday deadline.
I set a public goal: first paying customer by July 12. I picked that date to make it uncomfortable.
It's working.
What shipped this week
Activity Drawer
I noticed a spike in my own analytics 10 clicks at 4PM on one link the chart showed the number. Nothing else.
Was it one person clicking 10 times? A bot burst? 10 different people?
Couldn't tell. So I built the Activity Drawer.
Click "Activity" on any link a panel slides in with the last 20 real clicks: country, device, source, whether it was a QR scan, and exactly how long ago it happened.
The spike turned out to be 8 different countries, all organic. Real people. Not a bot. Not me.
The best bug report is your own confusion.
Zapier Integration
Built the full webhook trigger this week subscribe, unsubscribe, live delivery. Clksy conversions now fire a Zap automatically.
Two things blocked it that took longer than they should have:
Vercel serverless terminates the response before a fire-and-forget webhook completes. You have to await it not void it.
Zapier requires a flat payload. Standard envelope format gets rejected silently.
Both were invisible until they weren't.
Now it works.
SEO 3 Month GSC Review
55 pages indexed. 2 clicks. 320 impressions. 35 countries.
That sounds bad. Here's what it actually means:
/features/custom-domains is sitting at position 6 with 34 impressions and 0 clicks. That's not a ranking problem that's a meta problem. The title and description weren't compelling enough to click. Fixed.
/tools/utm-builder at position 8. Same issue. Fixed.
Five blog posts needed depth passes comparison tables, FAQs, internal links. Done.
Two new pages built: /alternatives/golinks and /alternatives/linktree
The strategy I'm following: don't produce more pages. Improve what Google already thinks is relevant. Pages at position 6 -15 with impressions are the ones to fix first they're already in the game, just not getting clicked.
Lesson of the week
The ghost ban lasted 2 weeks.
I lost half a month of Twitter distribution because I put a redirect link in a reply chain. Twitter's spam filter treats that the same as a phishing link.
The fix: never put a short link in a reply. Use your plain domain clksy or nothing. Only put the tracked link in a top-level post or your first comment on your own tweet.
I built a link tracker and got caught by a link-based spam filter.
The irony is not lost on me.
Practical tip
If you track newsletter clicks, your analytics will show most of them as "direct."
Email clients strip the HTTP referrer before the click reaches your server. The channel context is gone before it even lands.
Fix: add UTM parameters to every link in your newsletter. ?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email now clicks show as newsletter traffic instead of disappearing into the void.
This is also why Clksy's channel tagging matters the channel tag lives in the link itself, not the referrer. It survives email clients, apps, and anything else that strips headers.
The outreach reality
Spotted two warm leads on Reddit both with exact attribution pain, both fitting the ICP. Sent DMs. One seen, no reply. One replied, then went quiet.
This is normal. Not chasing.
The lead from week 1 - 3 messages, all seen, no reply. Parked. Moving on.