I Built Backlinks for 3 Weeks. Then I Connected Ahrefs and Found Three Bugs.

One bug hid two more. By the end I'd shipped 9 PRs in 4h36m and resolved 285 audit issues. I'm a 25-year engineer who launched his first SaaS on Product Hunt three weeks ago. Since then, I've been doing what every indie founder is told to do: build backlinks. I submitted to directories. I sent HARO pitches. I wrote on Medium. I built badges into my footer for every clean dofollow source I could find. Slowly, the numbers moved. 60 referring domains. 12 dofollow backlinks. DR 21 on Ahrefs. For a o