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Posts by Mike Kerchenski

The full breakdown of how we built AI document processing directly into a client's content workflow — and why the same pattern works for any business sitting on a pile of PDFs.

hurrah.dev/blog/ai-pdf-document-processing

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Compliance company. 50 states. 50 official drug testing law PDFs. 2-4 hours per state to turn them into web pages.

We built an AI button into their admin panel. Now it's 30 seconds of generation + 10 minutes of review. Same quality, fraction of the time.

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99 silent SMS failures. 7,482 dead clicks on checkout. An iOS Safari bug affecting 5% of mobile users. All found through routine monitoring, all fixed same day.

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Most agencies build your site and walk away. I found 16 bugs across 5 client sites this Monday. None reported by clients. A thread on what proactive monitoring actually looks like.

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From Spreadsheet Chaos to Custom App: The EZ Cell Story See how EZ Electronics replaced spreadsheet chaos with a custom web app at ezcell.io. Built in 4 weeks. A real small business transformation story.

EZ Cell: wholesale electronics dealer, running on spreadsheets and manual emails. Customers couldn't self-serve. Inventory was always slightly wrong. One custom app later, all of that changed. hurrah.dev/blog/ez-cell-spreadsheets-to-custom-app

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The "one person who knows the spreadsheet" problem is real. If they're out, the business slows down. EZ Cell had exactly this. We built them a platform in 4 weeks. Now the spreadsheets don't exist. Here's the full breakdown.

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The Equity Dilution Math Nobody Shows You (Until It's Too Late) Startup equity dilution explained with real math. See how a 50/50 co-founder split becomes 20% by Series B. Free equity dilution calculator included.

I wrote up the actual dilution math nobody shows first-time founders. From 50% to 23.9% in three rounds. Plus a free calculator to model your own scenario: hurrah.dev/blog/equity-...

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73% of founding teams allocate equity in the first month. HBR research shows founder unhappiness with those splits increases 2.5x over time. Maybe don't make million-dollar decisions before you've validated anything.

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When to Outgrow Zapier: 5 Warning Signs Your Business Needs Custom Automation 5 warning signs your business has outgrown Zapier. Learn when automation tools cost more than custom solutions and what to do about it.

We built a wholesale electronics company a full order management system for $250/mo. They were spending more than that on Zapier workarounds alone. Here's how to know when you've hit that crossover point: hurrah.dev/blog/outgrow...

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Zapier is magic for simple automations. But once you have 20+ Zaps, $300/month bills, and workflows that break every Tuesday — you don't have an automation tool. You have an expensive problem. 5 warning signs:

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AI made 500 lines of code feel like a developers resume

what it didn't make easier: architecture, security, data modeling, knowing what the client needs

25 years in, those are still the hard parts. AI just handles the typing.

(explaining Dunning-Kruger with zero psychology credentials since 2025)

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7 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Spreadsheets (And What to Do Next) 7 warning signs your small business has outgrown spreadsheets. Learn when to automate and what to replace them with — before errors cost you real money.

7 signs your business has outgrown spreadsheets — from version chaos to the "spreadsheet wizard" problem. Plus what to actually do about it: hurrah.dev/blog/signs-b...

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Everyone knows their spreadsheet isn't the right tool. But most don't realize how much it's actually costing. I wrote about the 7 warning signs that it's time to move on.

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The best use of AI coding tools isn't writing code. It's running specs through plan mode before handing work off so your developer gets clarity instead of guesswork. The bottleneck was never the coding. It was the communication.

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FairBid - Free Contractor Quote Review | Hurrah Toolbox Paste your contractor's quote and get an instant AI-powered analysis. Understand pricing, spot red flags, and know what questions to ask.

Stop signing contractor quotes you don't fully understand.

We built FairBid — paste your estimate, enter your ZIP, get an instant AI breakdown with red flags and questions to ask.

Free. No signup.

hurrah.dev/toolbox/fairbid

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Plan mode changed how I work. More time planning, less time coding, better results.

Built a Claude Code skill that loads all 44 Azure Architecture patterns into context.

Now when planning, Claude already knows Saga vs Choreography, which Azure services implement each, and when NOT to use them.

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How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

WYSIWYG locks in HTML. Site design changes, content looks broken.

Markdown converts on the fly—Bootstrap today, something else tomorrow, content stays clean.

Same thinking behind my .NET 10 post that resonated.

Great piece: anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

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This is a fun use case. I've been using Claude Code for all my C# development but hadn't thought about hardware/CAD workflows. Curious to see how the AI-assisted design process plays out on the stream.

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finally solved my "quick utility script" problem

.NET 10 lets you run .cs files directly - no .csproj, no bin/obj folders

combined with a Claude Code skill that prefers C# over Python

why? when AI writes code for me, I want it in a language I can actually read and maintain

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Compare: Hurrah vs Bubble vs Odoo vs Agencies | Hurrah Web Solutions Make your work easier and more efficient. Transform spreadsheets into user-friendly web apps, get custom data dashboards, and enjoy seamless system integration — all with our dedicated support.

Hot take: "Customizable" is a marketing word that means "you can change the colors."

Custom means we build what you actually need.

We put together a comparison of Hurrah vs Bubble vs Odoo vs agencies vs freelancers. No spin, just facts.

hurrah.dev/compare

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Helped a carpenter from Miter & Lathe set up Apple Watch voice capture for instant task/calendar adds + a todo app that syncs with Microsoft 365 across Windows & iPhone.

Not every problem needs custom code—sometimes it's finding the right tools.

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Connected Claude Code to GA4, Microsoft Clarity, and Search Console via MCP.

Yesterday it found rage clicks on a CTA I thought was working. Users clicking, nothing happening.

Would've taken hours to find manually. AI spotted it in seconds.

#ClaudeCode #AI #WebDev #SEO

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From PDF to Published: How We're Using AI to Save Hours of Content Work Creating content for your business shouldn't feel like a second job. We built an AI-powered tool that transforms PDFs into web-ready articles in minutes—extracting text, optimizing images, and generat...

We built an AI tool that turns PDFs into web-ready articles.

Upload → Generate → Publish

What used to take 1-2 hours now takes minutes.

No chatbot hype. Just practical automation that saves real time.

Here's how it works: hurrah.dev/blog/from-pd...

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Today is the day all but the very rich and big corporations pay their taxes.

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To be clear, I truly don't GAF that some wealthy and/or famous women were passengers on a Bezos rocket. It is not in any way inspiring, especially at a time when NASA budgets are being slashed and women engineers & scientists are being pushed out of their careers and having their legacies erased 🧪

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Our Founding Fathers were no dummies.

As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 47: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

This is what Trump wants. We will stop him.

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Imagine believing your child was “killed” just because they don’t identify with the sex they were born with.

A real father would love their child unconditionally.

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Why do teams still love spreadsheets? Because they work. Learn how forward-thinking businesses are building on this foundation with targeted web solutions.

#ProductivityTips #BusinessSolutions #WebApps
https://bit.ly/42N8oKl

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Please. No more speeches in the Senate about “freedom” until one Republican has the guts to stand up to Trump’s lies about Ukraine & Putin. Ukraine did not start this horrific war. Russia did. Zelensky isn't a dictator. Putin is. The US must not enter into an alliance with Putin.

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