Harness Engineering: What We Learned Running a Company With AI Agents Harness engineering is the work of building everything around an AI model: the instructions it reads, the memory it keeps, the checks it must pass, the limits on how many times it can try again, and the person who approves what it does. We build a program that runs…
How to Sell Design Templates From Your Own Site Instead of a Marketplace If you design templates — Canva templates, presentation decks, print templates, UI kits, any digital file a customer downloads and uses — the easiest place to start selling is usually a marketplace. It comes with buyers already looking. It also comes with a cost: every sale goes…
How to License and Update WordPress Themes (Free Guide 2026) You built a WordPress theme people are paying for. The moment the first sale lands, two problems show up that a plain download link was never built to solve. Someone can pass your zip file around a forum for free. And when you fix a security hole in version 2.3,…
Digital License Manager Alternative: How DMSI DDLS Compares (2026) If you sell software through WordPress, you have probably already found Digital License Manager. It is a capable, actively maintained plugin, and for a lot of vendors it is the right answer. This post is for the people it is not the right answer for — the ones looking for a…
Selling WordPress Plugins Direct After Envato’s Fee Cut On 1 July 2026, Envato moved every ThemeForest and CodeCanyon author onto a flat 50% author fee. Before that, an established exclusive author could keep as much as 87.5% of an item's price — so for some authors this is roughly a 43% cut to income on the exact same sales. In…
Most project management tools fall into two camps. On one side, you have full-featured SaaS platforms that cost $10–$30 per seat per month, require an internet connection, and store everything in someone else’s cloud. On the other, you have spreadsheets and text files — free and local, but impossible to maintain once you have more than a handful of things…
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes with running a business alone. You can see exactly what needs to be done. You know that a proper SEO audit would help. You know that better documentation would reduce support requests. You know that a QA pass before each release would stop embarrassing bugs from reaching customers. You also know that…
Growing a business usually means needing more expertise than one person can carry. You need someone who understands development, someone who knows SEO, someone who can handle marketing, someone to test what's been built. Hiring specialists for all of that isn't realistic until the business can support it — and by that point, you've already lost the months when that…
If someone told you they had an assistant who could write code, fix bugs, update your website, and run your marketing campaign — all without being asked twice — you'd probably want to hire that person immediately. Claude Code is the AI version of that. Minus the salary negotiations. But let's start from the beginning, because this is one of…
DMSI DDLS vs Freemius: Self-Hosted vs SaaS Licensing Compared (2026) If you are a WordPress plugin or theme developer looking for a self-hosted Freemius alternative, you are facing one of the most important business decisions in your product journey: should you use a SaaS platform that handles everything for a percentage of your revenue, or should you self-host your licensing…