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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 15/09/2026

my new automated support agent surprised me today for context - I shipped a new "frame" feature for ColorBliss a few weeks ago. A power user replied to my changelog email with a few use cases where it could be made more useful. I put it in my backlog.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/09/2026

it’s that big bug time of year

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 01/09/2026

Nobody can prepare you for the experience of holding your baby while you try to clean up poop from all over a wet pool bathroom while a four year olds screams are echoing off the walls repeating “I didn’t poop my pants, someone else’s poop was already on here”

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 14/08/2026

who else got a sneak peek of origin? i was able to enable it for a few codebases and click around a bit. it synced all the code / files very quickly

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/08/2026

The first proof came in from the new ColorBliss print product. It turned out really good I think, a few updates and I should be ready to handle printed and shipped custom coloring books later this month

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 10/08/2026

one thing i've been working on over the past month is automating some of the more rote parts of my product/business stack, and putting myself into the reviewer/decider position instead of the investigator position as much as possible this has been going very well... ben.robertson.is/jottles/one...

A list displays project names, authors, creation dates, and statuses, all from Ben Robertson's database automation efforts.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/08/2026

pretty excited to introduce this new product into the ColorBliss fold - this is the prototype of the new "mosaic mystery" coloring page recommended by a ColorBliss user this week! my home team product tester really likes it

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 07/08/2026

It's been a while since I've had something for my home team product testers to try out for ColorBliss - but made some progress on two long-awaited feature requests! the team stayed busy yesterday afternoon with the first batch of color by number coloring pages ben.robertson.is/jottles/its...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 07/07/2026

time to add "email automation expert" to my resume

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 12/05/2026

this is what customer support looks like when you run an image generation company this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/thi... on May 11, 2026

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/05/2026

something has gone horribly wrong this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/som... on May 8, 2026

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 05/05/2026

celebrated my 37th birthday over the weekend, surrounded by some little ones who love me unconditionally life is good

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 30/04/2026

should i add this to the colorbliss landing page? after seeing the savannah bananas sign up, i had my ai scan signup domains and found some legit companies in our database. not sure customers will care, but i think it’s pretty cool. ben.robertson.is/jottles/sho...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 20/04/2026

I had the great privilege to take this past week off, spend all day in quiet and prayer, and answer support tickets from this nice little bench for 30 minutes or so each evening huge thanks to my wife for holding down the fort while I was gone. coming back super recharged and ready to work clean

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 14/04/2026

i found out about this clone of ColorBliss because someone submitted a responsible disclosure not only did this clone forget to change the brand name from ColorBliss to their name on most of the pages of the site, the contact email is my email 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/04/2026

testing out a new image model for colorbliss photo conversion it works really well with text! this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/tes... on April 10, 2026

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 09/04/2026

adding a bit of fun to the colorbliss home page or rather, a bit MORE fun, since there is already plenty of fun on the page 🖼️👨‍🎨 (this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/add... on April 8, 2026)

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/03/2026

the engagement baiting on chatgpt has gotten really bad in the past few days. first noticed it over the weekend. i'll ask it a question, and it will give me an answer and a long rationale for that answer example: ben.robertson.is/jottles/the...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 11/03/2026

First pizza from the new oven 🍕

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 03/03/2026

a trial user just let me know that the ColorBliss pricing plans are more expensive than a company that has $45 million in funding with a team across 25 countries (pictured below) that's my competition. pretty wild that a 1 person operation can even be on the same field!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/02/2026

A new thing I'm trying out: having the LLM keep track of the experiments I ship I realized I'm shipping a ton of updates but having a hard time remembering two weeks out to go back and check to see if they worked (this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/a-n... on February 23, 2026)

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 18/02/2026

i was inspired to try making an astro theme that is semi-terminal based why? i'm not sure i don't even plan to use this for my personal site i just kind of thought it would be an interesting UI quick demo of what i came up with this afternoon would you use it?

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Florian Schepp @scheppening.com · 16/02/2026

Just shipped bsky-comments! Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component. • Framework Agnostic (Native WC) • < 3kb gzipped • Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL • Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind) github.com/florianschep... #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 16/02/2026

I like the idea of using something like Super Whisper or another speech to text app, but found them a little too clunky or hard to use. Plus it seems like the kind of software that shouldn't require a subscription I was excited to come across handy.computer this week!

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Handy

Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 16/02/2026

Meg Ryan and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 13/02/2026

This prompt from the nextjs mcp makes me chuckle

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 12/02/2026

If you haven't been able to tell, I've been spending a lot of time on email marketing for ColorBliss this month. One big initiative is a new drip campaign. After folks go through the onboarding flow, I'll hit them with one email a week. Each one is short, following the rule of one.

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 10/02/2026

✅ launch new feature ✅ announce the new feature ✅ follow up with an upgrade email one week later to the people who clicked on the new feature announcement 93% open and 89% click rate is an all time high for me. but so far a 0% conversion to paid plan

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 09/02/2026

Changing his name to Benito because he’s a bad bunny

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 06/02/2026

Conversions slowed way down for ColorBliss in January. It's been a little concerning for me, but December was a really great month so I've been trying to roll with the punches. But I have a new theory as to why...

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/01/2026

did a little spelunking on stats for a year in review email for ColorBliss 92k new users, up from 51k previous year!! interestingly, total coloring pages created was down quite a bit from the previous year (500k this year versus 750k last) I think there's a few reasons:

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Posting this to X, Threads, and Bluesky as an experiment

Two muscular people clasping hands meme. Hands are labeled "Don't call me daughter" Person on the left is labeled "Eddie Vedder" person on the right is labeled "Overprotective Pirate Fathers"

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 10/01/2026

decided to go ye olde schoole with the dates on my personal site

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 09/01/2026

this looks like a legit review, and then upon further inspection... i flagged it to amazon, but i wonder how they are handling this kind of thing at scale and if they can

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/01/2026

did a podcast with my old mentor Adam Landrum. he gave me my first real shot in tech when i joined his agency as an apprentice back in 2014. really enjoyed this one, both recording it and listening back. (link: ben.robertson.is/notes/i-app...) we talk about:

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 06/01/2026

Something I've learned building ColorBliss: you only hear the bad news by default. Customers rarely reach out to tell you you're doing a great job. This can really mess with your head if you let it. Wrote about how I deal with it on my blog: ben.robertson.is/notes/you-h...

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You have to look for the good news

You have to look for the good news Something I've learned over the past couple years working on ColorBliss, and something I experienced also…

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 02/12/2025

I decided not to do a sale or promotion for black friday this year for colorbliss But I still sent an email out to my list I was mostly just curious to see if it would get opened during the rush of thanksgiving / black friday emails

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 20/11/2025

a while back on x I saw people recommending cerebras for super fast text generation tl;dr: prompt improving now runs in 400 milliseconds instead of 4 seconds or more!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 04/11/2025

entering my "i will give you a great quote for your product launch" era

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 03/11/2025

I wrote up a little doc on how to get the ahrefs MCP working in cursor so you can do keyword research / queue up site audit fixes without leaving your editor ben.robertson.is/notes/how-t...

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How to add the Ahrefs MCP Server to Cursor

How to add the Ahrefs MCP Server to Cursor I've been testing out using the Ahrefs MCP server inside of the Claude desktop app, but honestly…

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 30/10/2025

the colorbliss dashboard has been feeling a little sluggish to me today i added proper loading states for each route as well as a nice little sidebar navigation animation / active indicator to make everything feel a lot snappier i'm not going to show the before because....

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 23/10/2025

a fun little update to my personal site - my face now follows your mouse around :) Kylan O'Connor (@kylancodes) posted an example of how he did this for his personal site, and I thought it would be a good fit for my illustration on my home page

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/10/2025

seeing the token awards from openai got me curious about colorbliss. i'm at 3-4 billion tokens so far trending at half a billion in the last 30 days. looks like I'm on track to hit 10 billion somewhere in the next 12 months

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 08/10/2025

this is the best review of colorbliss i have seen "Well Lord Liftin Jesus I have found it" lol love this blog too! gotta love real people being real people on the internet utopianpudding.com/2025/09/21/...

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Discovering Colorbliss: My Journey with AI Illustration

Discover why Colorbliss outshines Canva's AI for creating beautiful coloring book images, bringing nostalgic memories to life!

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Ben Robertson @ben.robertson.is · 02/10/2025

i got early access to this, and it was nice to be able to make quick changes to my sites from a dashboard i'm already familiar with and in regularly! and colorbliss is mentioned in the blog :)

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