My Local RAG article went viral. The product it promoted sold 1 copy in 6 months. (opens in new tab)

Six months ago, I published a Dev.to article called "How I built a 100% offline Second Brain for engineering docs using Docker + Llama 3 (No OpenAI)." It worked. 380 reads on day one 7 bookmarks, 11 reactions, the works Top Docker Author Badge of the week 🏆 A comment thread that actually went somewhere — someone suggested docling, someone else brought up the EU AI Act For a brand-new Dev.to account with two articles to its name, this is the kind of result that makes you think you've cracked s...