There’s no team here. In South Korea I run two small companies on my own. One buys and brokers damaged and written-off cars. The other is a small tire-shop chain with six locations. Between them I handle the marketing, the quotes, the scheduling, the accounting, the websites, and whatever data work keeps the whole thing from falling over. None of it gets handed to a department, because there isn’t one.
This site came out of that.
What running two businesses alone actually looks like
You become the person who does everything, including the parts you’re bad at. For a long time the website and the marketing were the parts I was worst at. Most of my customers find me by searching, so those weak spots cost real money — and hiring them out, month after month, costs more.
So I started learning to automate the boring pieces myself. I’m not a developer and I still wouldn’t call myself one. What I had was a lot of quiet evenings and an AI coding assistant that would explain things until they stuck. Over a few months, in fits and starts, I built a system that now writes and publishes this English site on its own, on a schedule, without me sitting there clicking anything.
How the posts on this site get written
I’d rather tell you this plainly than have you guess. Right now, essentially everything on this site is research-based. A tool gets compared by what it’s publicly documented to do, checked against the vendor’s own pages, not by me claiming I’ve lived with it for a year. The research and the first draft are AI-assisted, then measured against a fixed set of rules before anything goes live.
When a post mentions a price, it says when that price was checked — because a number is only true on the day you read it off the official page, and it goes stale within months. So you’ll see the date attached, and a link to the vendor’s current pricing to confirm it yourself. If a claim can’t be backed by the vendor’s own materials, it comes out.
There’s a second kind of post I want to write more of: ones about tools I’ve actually used in my own two businesses, written from experience, including the parts that annoyed me or didn’t work. I haven’t published those yet. When I do, I’ll mark them clearly as first-hand, so you’re never left guessing which kind you’re reading. Until then, take everything here as researched, not lived.
I don’t hide that most of this runs automatically. It’s not a secret sauce and it’s not something to apologize for. It’s the honest shape of a site built by one person with more businesses to run than hours to run them.
Why some of the links here make me money
Some of the links to tools are affiliate links. If you click one and sign up, I may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. That’s what keeps this site running instead of being another thing I pay for.
What it doesn’t do is change which tools get covered or what I say about them. A tool doesn’t get a kinder writeup for having an affiliate program, and when a program isn’t set up yet, the link just points to the plain vendor site. The full version is on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
What this site is not
It isn’t an independent lab that runs every tool through months of hands-on testing. I don’t have the time for that, and neither do you — that’s rather the point. This is a place to narrow twelve options down to two or three when you need to choose something this week and get back to running your business.
If a post gets something wrong, or a price has moved, or a tool has changed, I want to know. Corrections reach me through the Contact page, and they get fixed.