Studio86 / Notes

Field notes from a working studio.

How the products work under the hood, what breaks in production, and what we'd tell a client who asked. No growth-hacking listicles.

  1. TWITCHGUARD

    How TwitchGuard decides a follower isn't real

    Follow-bots inflate your count, wreck your analytics, and bury real fans. A walk through the layered checks TwitchGuard runs before it acts.

  2. REDACTED

    What a DMCA takedown actually involves

    Creators hear 'just file a DMCA' constantly. Here's what the notice contains, who can send it, and why we prepare them instead of sending them for you.

  3. ENGINEERING

    Why studio86.dev is a static site again

    We rebuilt this site from a Node-rendered stack to static files behind nginx. Faster, harder to break, and Google finally understood our URLs.