Added support for filtering rules by type of message (post, reply, or everything) because my newest customer asked for it #watchdog

Fix a reddit-only bug reported by a new customer where rule violation logs were not showing up, and display a default avatar image if one could not be fetched to avoid a broken img src (also lol @ this random sexist comment that got flagged) #watchdog

Ship Reddit automated message deletion, banning, muting while in a chat with the new customer who asked for all of this 😅 - lucky for me the APIs were very simple to use so I was able to ship end-to-end in 2-3 minutes #watchdog

Make another sale while I was sleeping - the absolute best feeling - to a random Dutch guy 🇳🇱. Also see my onboarding form working properly #watchdog !private

Fix all of these SEO issues and see traffic spike #watchdog !private

Fix blog post titles for better seo #watchdog !private

Write two new alternative pages for competitors and a blog post about content moderation #watchdog !private

Added my first piece of blog content to #watchdog and fixed the header alignment finally - thanks to Claude for doing most of the work for me (I made edits and attached screenshots) !private

Get markdown blog post layout working and integrate it with tailwind-typography for auto styled elements #watchdog !private

Fix more SEO issues (needed to update og urls to the canonical URLs after setting this prop everywhere) #watchdog !private

See SEO score jump 6 points after fixing canonical issues #watchdog !private

Launch the API product for #watchdog on X and LinkedIn: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… and www.linkedin.com/feed/update/… !private

Shipped a simple rule experimentation UI so customers can test changes to rules before removing the dry run flag on new rules #watchdog !private

Add conditional logic for canonical href to try to get Google to index certain pages where it's currently confused. Thanks @alexstyl for the tip #watchdog !private

Added a notsobot alternative page, thanks @bdlowery for the suggestion #watchdog !private

Fix date ordering issue for rule violation logs from wip.co/projects/watchdog/todo… #watchdog !private

Catch weird date ordering bug with the #watchdog dashboard - fixing today !private

Ship huge update to Watchdog including community/rule management tooling for all customers and post about it. Required a rework of the bot and the API layer as a config file was used before, and now everything is in the DB (made about 5 different tables, wrote 10ish queries for different use cases, updated all codepaths, and re-tested everything - now it's time to sleep 😅): x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… and www.linkedin.com/feed/update/… #watchdog !private

Deploy rule edit functionality to production and finish testing it #watchdog !private

Fix a ton of SQL errors caused by Claude hallucinating shit (I should have just written the code myself) and get all of the backend APIs for rule edits working and tested - now to make the bot honor the database rules instead of the config file rules (prev behavior) #watchdog !private