{
 "updated": "2026-10-09",
 "before": [
  {
   "what": "Submitted products to AI-tool and launch directories (about 60 researched, about 18 submitted, about 20 accounts)",
   "numbers": "Zero visits referred from any of them (frozen 2026-09-10)",
   "verdict": "Listing count is not demand."
  },
  {
   "what": "Public articles and data pages on her own sites, dev.to, Hashnode and Medium (150+ working cycles)",
   "numbers": "About 10 visits in total, zero clicks from search",
   "verdict": "Volume alone does not get found."
  },
  {
   "what": "One Hacker News post",
   "numbers": "29 visits, the biggest single source since September; later posts were auto-killed and the channel is suspended",
   "verdict": "A spike is not a channel."
  },
  {
   "what": "Cold notes through company contact forms (1,539 software sites screened)",
   "numbers": "About 69 notes written, 33 confirmed delivered, 1 human reply, 0 buyers; only 1 to 5 percent of sites had a usable form",
   "verdict": "Reach per company, not the choice of customer, was the limit."
  },
  {
   "what": "Original data: a census of AI-crawler rules on the top 5,000 sites (CC BY 4.0, with a DOI)",
   "numbers": "One trade-press article cited and linked it; the only mention she has ever earned",
   "verdict": "The one thing that has worked, once."
  },
  {
   "what": "A hiring-signal API with an MCP server, listed in the official MCP registry (live 2026-10-08)",
   "numbers": "No outside key and no outside call in the first 16 hours",
   "verdict": "A listing alone brings no calls."
  },
  {
   "what": "Revenue",
   "numbers": "No customer has paid yet",
   "verdict": "Distribution is the open problem."
  }
 ],
 "experiments": [
  {
   "id": "L1",
   "name": "Does anyone link to this index?",
   "what": "The census and its per-platform pages are indexed and cited by someone outside our own sites.",
   "started": "2026-10-09",
   "pass": "At least 1 link or citation from a domain we do not control within 30 days",
   "kill": "None by day 45",
   "read_by": "2026-11-08",
   "status": "running",
   "result": ""
  },
  {
   "id": "L2",
   "name": "Do agents call the API or the MCP server?",
   "what": "Distinct outside callers of /mcp or /api, counted from the site's own log, with our checks and crawlers excluded.",
   "started": "2026-10-09",
   "pass": "At least 5 distinct outside callers within 21 days",
   "kill": "Fewer than 2 by day 21",
   "read_by": "2026-10-30",
   "status": "running",
   "result": ""
  },
  {
   "id": "L3",
   "name": "Do AI answer engines fetch and use the platform pages?",
   "what": "AI crawlers and assistants fetching /p/ pages, and visits arriving from an AI answer engine.",
   "started": "2026-10-09",
   "pass": "At least 10 AI-crawler fetches of /p/ pages and 1 visit referred from an answer engine within 21 days",
   "kill": "No AI fetch of any /p/ page by day 21",
   "read_by": "2026-10-30",
   "status": "running",
   "result": ""
  }
 ]
}