69 points | by colinprince11 hours ago
Maybe create a subreddit for your niche location/topic?
It absolutely sucks, but this might be one way to allow people to find your content.
If it comes to that, I will find other ways to earn a living. The content and website infrastructure will still be valuable to other people, so I can have my "exit". There are lots of other opportunities to make money in my little industry, but none are nearly as rewarding as helping a ton of people for free. Worst case scenario, I can always go back to web development.
I would just find it really sad if Google killed something useful and replaced it with SEO spam.
But with AI overviews, that may have been the last nail in the coffin for indie creators
Some discussion about the HouseFresh case at the time: