Notes from the barn — week of Oct 5, 2026
Two guides shipped, the roofing calculator that was blocking our biggest keyword went live, and the Saturday audit turned out to have a bug in the audit itself.
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Notes from the barn: what shipped, what broke in testing, and what we learned building spreadsheets people actually use. Worked examples live under Guides.
Notes from the barn — week of Sep 28, 2026
Three guides shipped, the site now ranks for 20 keywords — up from 17 — and a Saturday audit caught a citation that returned 200 while redirecting away from the claim.
Read →Notes from the barn — week of Sep 21, 2026
Four guides shipped, the catalogue hit 87 workbooks and 39 calculators, and the site now ranks for 17 keywords — none of them a head term yet.
Read →Notes from the barn — week of Sep 14, 2026
Three English startup guides and one Spanish guide shipped, the measured organic footprint went from 10 ranked keywords to 13, and testing caught two unindexed guides.
Read →Notes from the barn — week of Sep 7, 2026
Four trade-startup guides, one workbook refresh, a measured rank snapshot and the moved SBA link our Saturday sweep caught and fixed.
Read →Notes from the barn — week of Aug 31, 2026
Five new guides, a measured depth-100 rank snapshot, and the off-by-one label bug our Saturday scan caught on 44 workbook pages.
Read →Notes from the barn — week of Aug 24, 2026
Week one: 87 workbooks, 39 free calculators, two guides live, and a first rank snapshot that found no workbookbarn.com URL in the top 100 for any tracked term.
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What WorkbookBarn is, what is free, and how every workbook gets tested before it is listed.
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Workbooks on Etsy, calculators here, arithmetic shown in full.
Browse the workbooksEducational estimates only. These calculators and workbooks do the arithmetic on the figures you enter; they are general-purpose tools, not financial, investment, tax, legal, lending, insurance or construction advice, and no result is a quote, an offer, or a guarantee of any outcome. Results depend entirely on your inputs and assumptions.