One switch became three, free on every plan, with new-domain defaults changing on 15 September. The Googlebot trade-off that makes one of the three expensive, a setting matrix by site type, and the exact dashboard path.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act applies from 2 August 2026. Which of the four duties attaches to you, the editorial-review exemption that takes most publishers out of scope, and why the headline 3% fine is the wrong number for a small company.
The Commission did not object to Google charging a steering fee. It objected to the level and the length, both of which are published on Google's own help pages. The three routes out of Play billing, priced, with the enrolment steps.
Three former Morning Brew employees launched beehiiv in October 2021. By April 2024 the platform was sending a billion emails a month, and its customers were earning about $1.2 million monthly through it.
Sara Blakely started Spanx with $5,000 in savings, wrote her own patent application to save the legal fees, and reported $4 million of revenue in the first year. Each early decision was a substitution of effort for money.
In March 2016 a British startup with a prepaid card and 3,000 testers raised a million pounds from the public in 96 seconds. The cap on each investment was the point.
In August 2022, David Holz said Midjourney had about ten people, no investors, and was already profitable. Its product had no website to speak of. Users typed prompts into a public Discord channel.
In March 2014 a Dutch developer promised to launch one product a month for a year. A decade later he publishes six-figure monthly revenue from products he still builds alone.
In July 2025 the Swedish company Lovable announced $100 million in annual recurring revenue, roughly eight months after launch. The growth looks like an accident. The channels it came through were chosen deliberately.
Two engineers put in $3,000 each in 2012 and built a mattress company to $170 million in revenue. Their competitors raised hundreds of millions. The difference was what they did instead of raising.
John O'Nolan funded Ghost with a 2013 Kickstarter for software that barely existed, then structured it as a non-profit so it could never be sold. The public dashboard now shows eight figures of recurring revenue.
Gymshark was incorporated on 5 July 2012 by a 19-year-old printing garments by hand. By 2021 it reported $608 million in revenue. The mechanism was mailing free product to people with cameras.
Before Zapier launched publicly, three founders in Missouri had already taken money from 800 people. The channel was free, public, and sitting in other companies' support forums.
In September 2014, ConvertKit was making $1,337 a month and looked finished. Thirteen months later it passed $30,000. The turnaround came from four decisions, none of them about the product.
Buffer launched on November 30, 2010 and had a paying customer within days. The famous landing page test that preceded it is widely imitated and almost always copied wrong.
Sahil Lavingia built Gumroad over a weekend in 2011 and 52,000 people used it on day one. The launch was the easy part. What he published about the eight years that followed is the more useful story.
OpenAI's worldwide outage this morning lasted about 50 minutes. The published uptime numbers say this is routine, the SLAs pay in credits, and a working fallback path is an afternoon of work rather than an architecture project.
Amazon told sellers this week to add metadata to images and A+ content showing photorealistic AI-generated people. The New York law behind it carries $1,000 and $5,000 penalties and reaches any seller whose listings are visible in the state.
Federal disaster help for a business is a loan, not a grant: up to $2 million, capped at 4% if you cannot borrow elsewhere, 30 years, first payment deferred a year. The trap is that every declaration carries two deadlines for two different loans.
Credit cards only, never debit, capped at your own processing rate and never above 4%, with 30 days' notice and three separate disclosures. The rules, the states with restrictions, and the arithmetic showing a compliant surcharge recovers about 94% of your fees.
Plausible Analytics crossed $1 million in annual recurring revenue on June 2, 2022, three years after its first $64 month. The engine was written content aimed at a problem, not a product.
Google's spam policies never mention AI writing as a violation on its own. The test is scale, purpose and value, and the neighbouring policies on thin affiliation and site reputation abuse catch small sites too.
From September 30, apps must be registered by a verified developer to install in four countries, with global rollout in 2027. The dates, the $25 versus free account decision, and what verification leaves alone.
eBay International Shipping replaces GSP for UK sellers from August, automatically. Reach goes from 105 countries to 195+, and your payout is protected once the parcel is scanned at the UK hub.