// thoughts, stories & lessons learned
How 10 years in restaurants, a buggy POS system, and a Google search changed my entire career path.
Why I built a full-stack bar & grill ordering app with ASP.NET Core to sharpen my C#/.NET skills and round out my portfolio.
I built a niche affiliate site, optimized it for AI crawlers instead of just Google, and grew organic traffic from ChatGPT in under 2 months with zero ad spend.
How the women I met in school and in my career pushed me past imposter syndrome and changed the trajectory of my life.
How I built a niche travel blog to help people travel for free with large dogs — and what I'm learning about SEO along the way.
A breakdown of the tech stack, design decisions, and lessons learned building daniellefuglestad.dev from scratch.