A big shift over the last year or two seems to be market access for small/indie products. I built and launched two SaaS systems (one started 13 years ago, one 7 years ago) sucessfully getting customers through organic search from Google. Trying to do something like that again and the difference is huge. There is a lot more competition everywhere, content on Google seems to get impressions but not clicks, and it just looks like the market is overcrowded.

In the last couple months, working with my biggest client has turned from writing code to improve her product to reviewing PRs that Claude makes - with her constantly upset that I can't keep up with the firehose, peeved when I reject a "working" PR that does things like creating redundant code rather than reusing elements already in the site for nearly a decade or providing a poor UX for users, and annoyed that the production site is so far "behind" her dev site. I really hate it but I'm not in a position to stop working with her; on the other hand I feel it's a matter of time before she decides I'm redundant and makes the decision for me.

Perhaps it's time to take up onion farming.