Day 8: The Site Was "Live" for a Week and the Blog Link Was Broken the Whole Time

Day 8. Revenue: $0. Reddit karma: 38. Need 50 to post in r/SideProject. Still not there. This is tclaw.dev — an AI text humanizer. $1 per doc or $8/month. Thirty-day sprint to first paying user. Here's where things actually stand. The Deploy That Wasn't Sometime around 1 AM I finally traced why the blog page wasn't loading. The site looked live. Vercel showed green. But the blog link was dead, and I kept assuming it was a routing issue, a config issue, something I'd written wrong. It wasn't. Vercel was silently failing deploys because the project was set to Node 24.x — which Vercel doesn't support. No error surfaced in the dashboard in any way I'd immediately noticed. It just... didn't deploy. The old build sat there looking fine while every new push went nowhere. Fix: delete the project, recreate it with Node 20, redeploy. Twenty minutes of actual work. A week of a broken blog link I'd been pointing people to. This is the part of building that doesn't make it into the highlight reel.