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Eddie Glush
Eddie Glush

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🌱 Building Zyro: From Solo Project to Unified Growth Engine

When I started working on Zyro, I wasn’t trying to build yet another SEO tool or analytics dashboard. I was frustrated. Every time I wanted to understand why a site was underperforming, I found myself bouncing between five or more disconnected platforms.

SEO lived in one place. A/B testing in another. Heatmaps somewhere else. Social scheduling on a completely different stack. It felt like duct tape, not engineering.

So I set out to build something different.

The Goal

I wanted one script that could be dropped on any site — WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, custom stacks — and instantly unlock a complete growth toolkit.

Not a collection of random features, but a system where everything talks to each other:

A/B testing results feeding back into SEO strategy

Social campaign data shaping keyword research

Content gaps directly informing automated article generation

At the center of it all: conversions.

The Build

The core stack:

Backend: C# ASP.NET WebForms with SQL Server

Frontend: A JavaScript tracker that captures pageviews, clicks, scroll depth, conversions, experiments, and schema injection

Integrations: DataForSEO, Google Trends, Google Search Console, OpenAI, Google NLP, PageSpeed Insights

From there, I built out the major modules:

Content Hub for AI driven briefs and article generation

A/B Testing Suite with anti flicker, bandit modes, and Bayesian statistics

Insights Overlay with heatmaps, scroll maps, rage click detection, and mobile gesture analysis

Social Hub for trend mining and campaign publishing

Smart Feed that turns billions of signals into actionable alerts

Lessons Learned

Integration is harder than invention. Building each feature was straightforward. Making them work together took months of iteration.

Developers and marketers want different dashboards. I learned to design one system but two lenses.

AI is only as good as the context. OpenAI could generate copy, but without entity analysis and competitor insights, the output lacked edge.

Why Share This Here

Forem is about builders. Many of you are also creating tools, wrestling with architecture choices, and trying to make something that matters. I don’t see Zyro as just a SaaS. It’s a reflection of a question that has been driving me for years:

What if we stopped stitching tools together and instead built one growth engine that actually understands the whole journey?

What’s Next

I’ll be opening Zyro to early users soon. The early numbers are encouraging:

Automated articles ranking within weeks

Conversion insights surfacing in hours instead of months

Faster SEO execution across entire sites

But the bigger goal is this: make growth engineering accessible for everyone, from solo founders to enterprises.

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