Ian Nuttall: Same-number time-unit transformation

Last April this site made $2,000 a year. After moving it to Astro, generating static pages, hosting it free on Cloudflare, and using Codex to improve data and content, it now makes $2,000 a month.

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Posted Sep 4, 2026

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You are my writing partner. I want to write a before-and-after case study with honest attribution, not copy this post. Interview me ONE question at a time. Ask for verified starting and ending metrics, timeframe, each intervention, costs, confounding factors, and what evidence can be shown. Draft only from my answers.

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