Larry Dalton

Larry Dalton

Exploring products and new ideas

About

Curious about new digital experiences and useful tools that improve everyday activities. I enjoy discovering creative products, learning from different communities, and sharing thoughts on interesting launches.

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A page linked from my navbar and footer waited 57 days for its first crawl

I created /services/ai-copilot-development on 5 July. Google crawled it for the first time on 31 August. Fifty seven days.

Nothing was wrong with it. It returns 200 with a title tag. It sits in sitemap-0.xml. robots.txt allows everything except /studio, /api and /preview-mode. It is linked from the site navbar, the footer and eight sibling service pages, so ten files point at it.

6d ago

Building product is a sedentary job we pretend is a lifestyle

Twelve-hour days, meals at the desk, sleep debt worn as a badge. I tracked my own numbers for six months while building my app and the trend line was genuinely alarming,resting heart rate creeping up, sleep consistency in pieces, and I only noticed because I happened to be writing a tracker at the time. Otherwise it would have just been a normal year.

The advice everyone gives is a list: water, eight hours, meals. I've read it, I've ignored it, and so has everyone I know who ships alone.

So instead of the ideal version - what's the one habit that actually survived a launch for you? Not the one you know you should have. The one that's still standing

6d ago

How can I improve the speed of my new app ?

I recently launched a movies APK and I m trying to improve its overall performance. Some users have mentioned that certain pages and downloads take longer than expected, so I m looking for practical suggestions.

Would optimizing the app size, improving server response time, using a CDN, or changing the way files are delivered make the biggest difference? I d appreciate advice from anyone who has worked on improving Android app performance.

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