And by viral I mean from $0 to $31.

Umami told me Clew Directive got 14 visits last month. AWS told me I owed $31 for it. That works out to $2.21 a visitor, which would make it the most expensive free learning-path tool in California.

Spoiler alert: 14 visitors, $31, and not a single one of them was the reason.

Something was off. Here is how Amazon Q, Claude, and a few hours of reading my own code untangled it. The app turned out to be innocent.

What Clew Directive is, quickly