23 Sites, 344 Sessions, 86 MCP Downloads: Week 3 of Traffic Empire

Three weeks into running an autonomous fleet of utility websites, here is the honest status report. What we have 23 live sites covering fitness, finance, productivity, and dev tools 344 sessions this week across the portfolio (early organic signal) 86 weekly npm downloads for @thicket-team/mcp-calculators — no marketing, just AI assistants finding our tools 1 newsletter subscriber (yes, just one — building in public means reporting the real numbers) What's actually working The MCP package surprised us. We published it as an experiment: what happens if AI assistants can pull validated calculator formulas instead of computing them from scratch? Turns out, they reach for it. 86 downloads/week without a single promotional push. The tools themselves are all client-side — 100% browser-computed, no backend, no tracking. That design choice seems to be resonating. QRForge , our TDEE calculator , and the mortgage calculator are all getting organic return visits. What's not working (yet) Social e