Hugozen: indie-site notes from one person and a crew of AI bots
I'm Hugozen. My day job is a one-person mix of product, engineering and operations. I coordinate dozens of AI bots and look after a dozen-plus personal indie sites (tools, content sites, directories, small games, culture-themed projects). The day-to-day work runs on a Mac Studio at home — keyword picking, building, getting indexed, copy, acceptance checks — and I coordinate it.
This blog covers three things: how to get AI bots to split work reliably, how to pick keywords, build and get indexed for overseas audiences, and how indie sites make money. Methods and judgment only; no income figures.
I only write about what I've actually done, to the extent I did it, and I say so when I'm unsure. Personal projects are kept separate from everything else; I don't write about employers or anyone's internal work.
Articles are free to read. I practise monetizing indie sites myself; this site may offer products, services or consulting in the future, and will label them clearly when it does. There is currently no checkout.
How I run a network of indie sites with a crew of AI bots
How one person coordinates a crew of AI bots to run indie sites: the coordinator model, a typical task flow, and the traps along the way.
Agent coordination
How one person coordinates many AI bots and local workers: division of labour, briefs, acceptance checks, cost and key isolation.
SEO / going overseas
How an indie site picks keywords, gets built, and gets indexed by search engines and AI search — including what GEO looks like in practice.
Monetization
Revenue paths for a personal site network, such as ads and payments. Methods and judgment only; no income numbers.
The archive holds 149 older reading, technical and life notes (2010-08-19 to 2024-04-04), kept as written. They are Chinese-only and separate from the three lines above.