Notes

Working notes from building and running an automated storefront and a social-posting service around a full-time job. Written from what actually happened — including the parts that broke. Nothing here is theory; if a claim stops being true, the page gets changed.

• 2026-08-28What it costs to run an automated store at $0 a month

  The full stack behind an automated dropshipping storefront, line by line, with the one bill that isn't free and the two things I switched off because they weren't.

• 2026-08-27I sold a roll of wallpaper as a pet bed, so I built a validator that can veto my own product names

  Supplier product titles are keyword soup. Cleaning them up with AI is easy and dangerous. Here is the rule I wrote so a display name can never say something the supplier's title didn't.

• 2026-08-26Pricing dropshipped products so no sale can lose money — the three costs people forget

  A 2x markup on wholesale cost loses money on most small dropshipped orders. Here is the arithmetic, the formula I price from, and three worked examples.