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The Marketing Show

What This Site Is

Section titled “What This Site Is”

The Marketing Show is your public knowledge base — a big collection of articles about marketing, software tools, business, and entrepreneurship. Articles link to each other using wiki-links (like Wikipedia), so one topic leads to the next. When you mention a tool you get paid to recommend (an affiliate), the site automatically adds a “buy it here” link in the right place. It is also where all your blog posts from videos and pasted content end up.

Ownership

Section titled “Ownership”

Yours. Your own content platform.

Live URL

Section titled “Live URL”

https://themarketingshow.com

Stack & Hosting

Section titled “Stack & Hosting”
ThingDetail
FrameworkNext.js 16.1.6
React19.2.3
Content sourceMarkdown files in /content/ (posts, pages, reviews, platforms, assets)
Markdown enginegray-matter + remark + remark-gfm + remark-html
Wiki-link system[[Page Name]] syntax, custom graph parser
Analytics DBSupabase
Graph vizD3.js 7.9.0
HostingVercel
Scheduled jobsDaily report jobs at 15:00 and 16:00 (two separate Vercel crons)

Where It Lives

Section titled “Where It Lives”
  • Repo: ~/apps/themarketingshow/
  • Dev server: cd ~/apps/themarketingshow && npm run dev (default port 3000, registered as port 3100 in the pop-it-open map)
  • Dev port (if using pop-it-open): 3100
  • Build number: 183 (as of last Explore pass)
  • Latest commit: 2026-04-14

How To Edit

Section titled “How To Edit”
  1. cd ~/apps/themarketingshow
  2. Add or edit a markdown file in content/<category>/<slug>.md
  3. Use frontmatter (title, date, slug, categories, excerpt, featured_image)
  4. Use wiki-links [[Page Name]] for internal references
  5. npm run dev to preview
  6. Bump build.txt
  7. Commit with format Build X: summary
  8. git push — Vercel auto-deploys
  9. Run propagation (/propagate skill) to update wiki-link graph across the site

Key Systems

Section titled “Key Systems”
  • Wiki-link graph — every [[Page Name]] is indexed at build time. Missing targets show as grayed-out links (do not ship those — use plain text instead).
  • Manual map hierarchy — src/data/marketing-stack.ts is the human-curated topic map, separate from the wiki-link auto-graph.
  • Affiliate config — src/config/affiliates.ts is the single source of truth for every affiliate link, keyword, and CTA. Do not hardcode affiliate URLs anywhere else.
  • Video-to-article pipeline — YouTube videos get transcribed, thumbnails downloaded (with fallback chain for missing maxresdefault), and articles auto-drafted.
  • Voice profile enforcement — posts are checked against ~/apps/james-voice/voice-profile.md and an AI-tell linter at ~/apps/cc/ai-tell-check.sh before publishing, to avoid AI-fingerprint phrases.

Known Issues / TODOs

Section titled “Known Issues / TODOs”
  • No README.md. Not critical — the CLAUDE.md covers everything needed.
  • Entity-based propagation is mandatory. Every content change should trigger /propagate to refresh wiki-links across the site. This is easy to forget.
  • Affiliate links must match affiliates.ts. Do not hand-write affiliate URLs inside article bodies — the config file is canonical.
  • Dev server defaults to port 3000, but pop-it-open expects port 3100. Start it with npm run dev -- -p 3100 to match the registered port.
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