#03-shipped

• open Christmas presents

*prismpms.com updates* :christmas_tree::snowflake: | • integrating posthog (wip) | • platform-wide performance optimisations | • cleaning up outdated loading states

:christmas_tree:

• recorded a new demo video for otamatunes.com and linked to the new amazon books from the site, and sent an email blast to past customers about the books - biggest traffic spike is on christmas | • :christmas_tree:

*prismpms.com updates* :christmas_tree::snowflake: | • finish & merge in performance optimisations PR | • finalise posthog integration | • explore '26 feature roadmap

• start planning the next big project

• decide to not make those home page changes from 2 days ago :joy:

• news.poach.vc and europe.poach.vc newsletter issues (day late due to christmas) | • more reach out to ashby users on linkedin for amor.dev | • schedule koala.fyi producthunt launch for monday

Take the day off and go to a Soviet museum and spa.

• 5 days mad fever dream sprint of building tests for Yuca: 111 commits and 998 tests (unit, integration, e2e). I don’t even know what year it is at this point :joy:

• Take another day off and plan next year | • Hang out in weird "moon room"

• mocked up a wordmark for my logo. (Any feedback? Looks cool? I’d have to may some $$ for the font)

• Added a deals section to the tool pages on Best Newsletter Tools | • Replaced markdown fields with rich text editors on Best Newsletter Tools | • Added streaks and email reminder settings to Diet Tracker | • Added multi-language support for Diet Tracker | • Added feedback widget to Diet Tracker

Fix server that ran out of disk space and crashed. opps

:todo_done: Return from Uzbekistan | :todo_done: Unpack | :todo_done: Catch-up on emails/Slacks | :todo_done: Cosy customer support (a Pro trial user wants to install on 3 Slack workspaces, figuring out a group discount)

Back from holiday break, and Lovable added a "queue next task" feature so going to be cranking from now on :slightly_smiling_face: | | • Re-did the pricing page to make value more obvious and pricing less intimmidating | • Launched social studio, which automatically generates X posts, LI posts, email newsletter blurb, and reddit thread for each article generated. | • Built the architecture for bottom-of-funnel alternative posts which will launch in the basic subscription plan soon (will test over the next 7 days before making it available to users) | • Re-calculated all pricing plans for inclusion of social studio and alternative posts | • Did research on auto-publishing to social media APIs to build direct social media push as an add-on

• lots of work switching prompt analytics from postgres to clickhouse/tinybird for elmohq.com | ◦ backfill process was painful | ◦ currently writing to both in production and reading from both in development for comparison purposes | ◦ for the 50th percentile, analytics endpoints are 1.5x faster | ◦ but for 95th percentile it's 2.3-18.6x faster and brings even the most complicated of queries to sub-second | ◦ still slight differences for several endpoints, need to make sure to verify it's all correct

_(yall have been shipping, sheesh!_ :face_exhaling:_)_ | • dust off the cobwebs from a week off | • spanish(24) | • working on new substack about AI | • light tweaks to the PromptFast story

• Updated the icon of Diet Tracker

• Admin | • Fix mobile conversion for Ramen Space trial signups | • Cosy Q1 roadmap (focusing on requests from actual paying/high usage customers) | • Plan Cosy event in January https://luma.com/hrg64u6b | • Freelance stuff

• Push a huge update to https://emojistime.com: translations into other languages, add captcha to search, which is being abused, etc.

• fixed edge cases related to data retrieval (mostly timezone related) and released tinybird-powered stats for elmohq.com

• promptfast.co updates | ◦ thinking through new potential feature that returns response speed and tokens | ◦ wrote new less: *How to choose the right model* (favorite insight is screenshotted below - actually originally shared by steph ango of obsidian) | ◦ improved landing page for mobile (still needs work) | • spanish (25)

• prep for tomorrow launch of project #10 of 25 | • build project #11

• fixed bugs with auto-generating social media content with articles on oleno.ai | • announced feature launch on LinkedIn | • Created changelog and sent email to users | • Created helpdesk article for the feature

• Fix mobile landing page for Ramen Club | • NYE dranks

• various things for elmohq.com | ◦ created a AI Visibility view that shows for of any subset of filtered prompts | ◦ changed default lookback from 1w to 1mo (assuming the account is more than 1w old) | ◦ added straight dashed lines at the start and end of a chart for a lookback window if data wasn't collected right on a boundary | ◦ upgrade a bunch of dependencies | ◦ switched the clickhouse schema I was using significantly for much better performance + simpler handling | • sold another domain on shelved.domains (record.to) | • news.poach.vc and europe.poach.vc newsletter issues | • gathered some stats for a potential poach.vc buyer (meeting Friday to discuss more)

• personal site improvements (bensterne.com) | • mockup new Manual Eval Template for promptfast.co and Eval course | • spanish(25)

• Launched Newsletter Growth Playbook, a personalized newsletter audit service.

• launch https://onegoal.email for new years

• fixed all the major bugs in Competitive Studio for oleno.ai - was able to generate a 4000+ word Best Of comparison article with fully verified external citations for every competitor claim. Making minor tweaks, then will release as an add-on to existing customers.

• just contracting work

• reflection/planning | • a little beach time tbh

• Vibe coded all day :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

• HeyPost Chrome extension updates | ◦ Moved the DB from Supabase to Cloudflare D1 since Supabase is crazy expensive | ◦ Moved the n8n workflows to Cloudflare Workers as the backend

:todo_done: Spring clean of Ramen Space | • Deploy self-hosted version of my image directory instead of Webflow

• Worked on project 12 | • Did YouTube video | • Feeling like I'm getting sick so resting a bit

:todo_done: Feeling the vibe

• created the architecture for multi-plan add-ons for oleno.ai | • enabled Competitive Studio as an add-on | • Tested and debugged | • Communicated availability to customers | • Added some additional functionality to competitive studio (top 3 competitors, suggest more competitors via research, better images, better brand pricing configuration)

• redesign “manual eval template” for promptfast.co | • touch ups to my personal site. | • spanish (pimsleur:1.4)

• brainstorming how to turn poach.vc more into a SaaS than newsletter | • planning what I need to do to release elmohq.com generally this month

• rebuilt a bunch of automations previously in make.com in the shopify flow app - one fewer saas spend :+1: (the Shopify AI 'Sidekick' is excellent for building these things) | • worked on pulling the perfect espresso shot (still elusive) | • thought about migrating an app away from Heroku to save myself some $ but decided I cba

• rest as I have the flu :sob:

• HeyPost Chrome extension updates: | ◦ Fixed email verification issues on sign up | ◦ Improved credit balance display accuracy | • Launched the landing page for the Newsletter Growth Audit service.

More rest

• Write newsletter

• Added two new timers to my visual timer site | ◦ Pixel Grid Timer | ◦ Breathing Timer

• Revamped the home page of Best Newsletter Tools and moved the Tools list to its own page.

Resting more

• sent SalesMVP Lab newsletter announcing Oleno.ai launch | • LI post about Oleno launch | • Sent email to customers and trial users that competitive studio is ready for purchase | • Outreached to a bunch of prospects I talked to before the holidays to get Oleno deals back on track | • Fixed some overly harsh QA penalties on competitive alternative posts | • Fixed a scheduling/queuing bug with competitive alternative posts

• spanish (duo:25 pim:1.6 ) | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ finalized manual eval template (any thoughts?) | ◦ wrote app script function to generate Manual Eval Template | ◦ added button to sidebar to allow users to create template :muscle:

• Set up pricing experiment in Android app | • Added resume import screen to iOS onboarding flow | • Reached out to designer re. revamping paywall screen

• contracting work | • refactor existing whitelabel elmohq.com auth to allow for creating 1) easy local testing instances 2) readonly demo and 3) cloud auth

• Prep for interview with @U03FFGM9U1F | • Prep for onboarding call with Client Ascension community for @U06PVRUSPNJ

• promptfast.co updates: | ◦ small improvement to marketplace listing. | ◦ rough redesign of home tab to be cleaner and add new templates tab. | ◦ updated code for new “Guide” subtab | ◦ updated code for new “Templates” subtab | ◦ updated code for new “Models” subtab | ◦ submit updated to marketplace

• did an account review for a customer to improve content output for oleno.ai | • fixed a number of bugs with account pausing and activation | • had my product coach review product vision and roadmap | • created a full product thesis doc based on feedback from product coach

• added more timers and calculators to visualtimer.com | • Built a new MacOS version of an iOS app of mine and sent a Feature Nomination to Apple about it

• Watch Che's interview live; start feeling optimistic about shipping. | • Spend some time exploring what to build | • Book advance train tickets and read a book about Roman Empire before bed

Day 1 of buildlikeap.ro hackathon in Manchester today. Spent hours trying to work out how to reliably ingest and rebuild components from any typescript codebase, with fairly underwhelming results... | | Day 2 and judging tomorrow!

• poach.vc newsletter issues | • working on poach.vc cloud platform | • call with a video production founder/friend, lots of brainstorming! | • trying to make baguettes for the first time! :baguette_bread:

• fixed various bugs for oleno.ai related to jobs failing/getting stuck and not recovering in the competitive studio | • scoped out the next 3 epics that will fulfill phase 1 of the product thesis (create + distribute + measure)

• set up the ability to have free trials (at my discretion) for amor.dev | • got a recruiting lead to try amor.dev out with his team -> it might be the first $1k/yr plan if it works out :crossed_fingers: | • follow up with people I messaged on LinkedIn about amor.dev that accepted an invite and never responded -> I actually get this a lot across outreach for multiple projects. I send a connection request with a personalized pitch about a product. They don't sign up for the product, but they add me. And even if I message them later on they don't respond. Why do they accept the request in the first place?!

• Runner up at the hackathon (I'll take that!). Demo video here for those interested.

:todo_done: Get newsletter live

• spanish (pim:1.8 and duo:25) | • promptfast.co | ◦ finished AI eval course exercise for manual prompt eval | ◦ starting new exercise for synthetic data eval which will need another template

:todo_done_check_tick: After 3 weeks of writing and editing and revising (and build AI apps to rate and suggest edits) and more editing and more writing, I finally have a beautiful long-form blog post that I’d love your feedback on: | • *The Plumbing of Everyday Magic* (all about how the things we take for granted, like turning on a faucet or ordering an Uber, require a lot of plumbing behind the scenes): https://launch-plan.hyperclay.com/?tab=plumbing | ◦ It’s part of my 3-email launch plan that’s going out next week :v:

• Iterate on TimeLapses.app a bit; needs a demo next. | • Browse the internet for "exists in one marketplace, execute for another" opportunities | • Call with one Ukrainian client | • Nerd time exploring Elixir programming; ask questions to learn why some things the way they are

• @U06PVRUSPNJ onboarding new community | • write video script for idea frameworks course

• Launch: https://somethingimportanttosay.com | • STILL recovering from the flu :-/

• added discounts to invoices |

• lots of work on a SaaS UI for poach.vc, mostly on the frontend side | ◦ set up sidebar and overall layout | ◦ clerk user/org management | ◦ plausible tracking | ◦ sitemap | ◦ redirects for substack that used to be at this domain | ◦ shells for SEO pages that'll be used to showcase VCs and founders that we track | • contracting work | • chatted with someone else working on an open source AI search tracking tool (relevant to elmoq.com)

• planning | • visa stuff | • spanish (pim:1.9 duo:25) | • video prod

• develop reusable site theme

:x: Record Napkin Math with video for first time :video_camera: (postponed till next week)

• Released light mode + dozens of new tools on visualtimer.com | • Sprinkled links and ads for my apps | • I need to stop | • AI is a hell of a drug

:todo_done: nocodo is now fully re-structured as an agent framework instead of coding agent | :todo_done: Started a SolidJS, Tailwind GUI that will allow users to plan and run their agents with nocodo's multi-agent workflow

• finished up a complete rework of oleno.ai to better structure the tool for long-term vision + product thesis | • Implemented a full governance layer with 4 studios (Brand, Design, Marketing, and Product) as the central source of truth for every piece of content written | • Reworked the knowledgebase as a central KB Archive with all documents supporting all the studios | • Governance Studios are built from the centralized KB | • General KB is used as a fallback for writing if the governance studios fail | | This is foundational layer 1, that powers layer 2 (demand-gen content jobs) and 3 (operations & orchestration). | | With this, I can now move on to the core demand-gen studios which I'm excited about. | | It also changes the category that I'm operating in. At first launch, it was programmatic SEO/GEO (single job), competing against Byword and Outrank. This shift will make it so that Oleno is injected into small marketing teams as an always-on autonomous demand-gen content en

:todo_done_check_tick: Started posting on Thread instead of X, thanks to @U01JL2N516D, feels much less toxic than X and my mental health is already improving | • Also I think I came up with a multi-million dollar startup idea :yum: https://www.threads.com/@_panphora/post/DTTBuvrgLuK?xmt=AQF0ejKAk239Qqa57RosrpbPCfy7PCAJeHZfQP9LHe-j0X9m4Vr1SPNUileLop3Gf5WUgkNv&slof=1

• promptfast.co designed synthetic data eval template for | • spanish (duo:25 pim:1.9)

• poach.vc newsletter issues | • call with potential poach.vc purchaser (most promising by far!) | • answer support/feedback for elmohq.com and amor.dev | • more contracting work

• Website template | • Try making some infographics in Figma | • Opinionated :laravel: project starter kit

• contract invoicing | • work on pSEO for poach.vc (v2)

• working on layer 3 - operations and orchestration for oleno.ai | • launched website-level QA trends and AI performance scoring, with actions/recommendations of where users can improve their governance layer for better output. Now users have a blueprint to knock out the silly AI stuff over time. | • started epic planning for distribution studio, which will include auto-publishing to various social networks

• some work on poach.vc | ◦ set up google oauth for clerk | ◦ make directory of vcs purchasable via payhip | ◦ move app.poach.vc domain to poach.vc | ◦ request indexing for google now that the pSEO pages are live | • follow up on poach.vc acquisition questions from potential buyer on acquire

• work on idea frameworks script | • plan @U06PVRUSPNJ event

• Onboarded a new intern in her first day at the job | • Reviewed the December financials | • Submitted and updated my projects on builders.to | • Started working on "Telegram to newsletter" tool

• making major changes to oleno.ai - continuing with the 3 layer approach, anchoring in demand-gen jobs | • Have about half of the epics done for Distribution studio, which will allow users to push content to various social network | ◦ Have all of the architecture + schema done | ◦ UI completed for Queuing posts, setting schedules | • In the process of completely re-positioning the website. Have home page mostly done (need to recreate some screenshots), pricing done, feature pages done. This is v1 messaging of new positioning, so will be working on v2-6 over the coming days/weeks. New website not live yet, but planning on pushing the first set of pages live later today.

• back to work and finally finished work on this year's goals for contentboo.st | • super close to finishing v2 which makes the architecture more compact and focused to handle the increased load

• Submitted a big update to a Scrolling Credits App

• spanish (pim:1.11 duo:25/3.15) | • follow up on very engaged student on my prompt eng courses. | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ did small enhancements to Manual Eval Template | ◦ made Synth Data Eval Template in app script | ◦ added to sidebar and re-deployed | ◦ planned next brand improvements

• massive improvements to poach.vc marketing page | • working on self-service poach.vc tracking

:todo_done_check_tick: I got live syncing working in Hyperclay! So now you can have a local HTML file that live-syncs with other tabs on your local computer, but that also live syncs to the platform and a live website! And also live syncs to people with a share link! It was A LOT of work (months and months), but I’m really proud of the result

• pushed the homepage changes live for oleno.ai - new positioning tackling much bigger strategic value for SaaS marketing teams | ◦ Still need to make some consistency tweaks across pages + remove the self-serve options across all pages | • Completed the MVP epics for distribution studio - now working through better UI/UX for managing social media content

:todo_done: Demo Day | :todo_done: Work on idea frameworks script

• spanish (pim:1.11 duo:25/3.15) | • parents visiting :flag-uy: | • promptfast.co - writing up synthetic data eval template for eval course

• made great progress in simplifying onboarding experience for contentboo.st v2 | • content plan done for the month

• shipped a big update for a Scrolling Credits app | • applied for citizenship :gb:

:todo_done: Google OAuth Integration; rethink database structure; | :todo_done: Client team/group call | :todo_done: Figure out server deployment with Dokku & Docker | :todo_done: Visit RamenClub; attend demo day; get keywords from the big SEO man @UMYNN93SN

:todo_done: Recorded an intro video for nocodo: https://youtu.be/UlTTfnMDLtA :youtube:

• demo day presentation for poach.vc | • newsletter issues | • bit of a rest day

• Start moving Ramen Club website off Framer

• made more tweaks to the oleno.ai homepage positioning based on feedback from prospects. Landing in a happier place - will ship changes to feature pages + pricing pages next | • Finished coding the workbench for distribution studio. Now moving on to testing various workflows to see where everything breaks.

• promptfast.co updates | ◦ worked on AI eval course | ◦ worked on LLM-as-a-judge lesson | ◦ wrote up manual evals vs. synthetic data vs llm-as-a-judge lesson

• fixed a bug with poach.vc scheduling | • sent out a launch announcement to existing subscribers :crossed_fingers: | • directory submission for poach.vc | • brainstorm recent feature requests for elmohq.com

• worked on new homepage, restructured it and cleaned up the codebase to get rid of cruft | • added new AI rules to maintain clarity, ensure conciseness: consistent types and contracts between interfaces | • new onboarding flow is done :white_check_mark:

:todo_done: I am preparing for the big launch to all of my email subscribers, localhost is working, I'm about to run some database migration scripts on production and switch my server from Sqlite to postgresql

[] new hypothesis clarified | [] new value proposition formalized

• Prep to announce idea frameworks course tomorrow

*Hey everyone* :wave: | I’m building *Pinfox.io*, a simple plug and play analytics tool. It shows things like: | • Most visited pages | • Real vs bot traffic | • Country, device, referrer, host, full page URL, and time | • Top referrers and traffic sources | I originally built it for my other product *sniffeasy.io* because these were honestly the only metrics I needed to check day to day. | This is very much an experiment. | No pricing | No subscriptions | No unlimited retention | If you have decent traffic feel free to sign up and try it. | If you have heavy traffic and still want to play around please DM me first. I’m not fully sure how it will handle scale yet. | Mainly sharing this for feedback. Please if you have time to try kindly share your feedback and how can i make this software better.

• Launch project 12 or 25: https://popcornph.one

• continued to plug away on the distribution epics for oleno.ai. Now have social studio hooked up to the distribution workbench, and evergreen content tagging set-up. Noticed that the UI for workbench is complete shit, so will need to add another epic to make it usable.

:todo_done_check_tick: Got all my local hyperclay apps upgraded to the next version of hyperclayjs, in preparation for the launch next week

• coding

• contracting

:todo_done: Updated nocodo README | :todo_done: Updated nocodo website homepage

• Course stuff

• completely remodeled the social/distribution studio workbench for oleno.ai | • Fixed a bunch of bugs, little UI/UX things

• more contracting work | • figure out new api endpoint for elmohq.com white-label client

• worked on gov proposal | • continued with changes to onboarding

:todo_done_check_tick: Worked on my ASCII email generator that I'll use to add ASCII art to my launch email

• drafted 3 consulting packages to test hypothesis

• Submitted v1.3.3 of HeyPost to the Chrome Web Store.

• created a Patreon page :pray: https://www.patreon.com/stevenirby | • posted my first video on tiktok for this week's project https://popcornph.one/ | • posted a video on x for this week's project | • posted a youtube x for this week's project

• move elmohq.com to a monorepo (pnpm/turbo) and plan out migrating from vercel-only white label deployment to white-label, cloud, local, and demo

• Improved prompts for social media posts on oleno.ai | • Added example social media content in Brand Studio so posts sound more like the user. | • fixed some issues with scheduling and queues | • Added a post now button to skip the queue.

• Event prep | • Chase up Cosy Slack directory submission | • Idea frameworks announce

• Launch this week's project. My most serious one so far. https://anacyclosis.info

• Setting up remote login so I can use Claude Code on my Mac from my phone :grimacing:

Made a 50 state general sales tax engine that provides sale recording and reporting of tax rollups per state for easy DIY monthly/quarterly/yearly tax filing. i made it for an event marketplace I'm making and figured i might as well wrap it in a frontend and eventually try to GTM and see if anyone else wants off stripe, avalara, or taxjar's ecosystem. :grin: | | taxlite.io

• contracting | • poach.vc sales call (looks like another small data customer!) | • lots of work on setting up elmohq.com to prep for open source and cloud version | ◦ refactored the code to support packages that can be licensed differently when releasing as open source (the cloud/whitelabel packages won't be MIT licensed while the rest will be) | ◦ now deployable locally with docker-compose | ◦ now has a demo mode (also deployable with docker-compose) that only supports read operations | ◦ made some progress in setting up secrets management and such for new signups | ▪︎ the problem is that I want the user to just be able to run the docker deploy without modifying any files, something like `curl -L https://docker.elmohq.com/latest > elmo.yaml` and `docker compose -f elmo.yaml up` | ▪︎ but if you want them to add secrets to access LLM apis (openrouter, openai, anthropic, etc), they have to edit a .env file in between. it seems like it'd be better UX f

• Fixed the OpenRouter connection issues on AdApt | • Started rebranding process for Diet Tracker

• added X threads as a post type for oleno.ai distribution studio | • fixed some more scheduling/queuing bugs | • added LinkedIn audiences as an option for LI posts | • Added suggested posts to the distribution workbench | ◦ Now has ability to create a manual draft, an AI prompted draft, suggested posts, or article-generated posts, making it really easy to fill a social media calendar.

Haven’t done much work on my Yuca project, but started a new project called Yokan, which is a iOS reader app for Japanese learners (scratching my own itch). Why have 1 side project, when you can have 2? :clown_face:

• Post videos on tiktok and YouTube for this weeks project | • Start building landing page for the next project

• Prep Make event | • Idea Frameworks landing page

• Improved the onboarding and overall web app experience of AdApt.

• landing page for https://meetsomna.com (in App Store review now!)

• added X threads as post type for oleno.ai | • Fixed a bug in suggested posts | • Improved writing for social media content so it sounds natural instead of AI generated.

• Started deploying a self-hosted Langfuse for LLM engineering across our team.

• another poach.vc sales call (turned into $100/mo subscription) | • ton more work on the elmohq.com clean up and open sourcing effort | ◦ make launching fail if env vars aren't set and show a warning screen | ◦ created a CLI for managing the docker compose configuration which handles the secrets concerns from before | ◦ added changesets to better handle version bumping | ◦ added a github dispatch workflow to handle releases (github for release notes, docker hub, and npm for the cli) | ◦ separate the worker into its own app in the monorepo | ◦ actually move the current white label instance onto the refactored multi-deployments code | ◦ changed how we were doing auth for the white label instance which should save ~60ms per query which is huge | ◦ remove some legacy stuff that was unused | ◦ planned out additional work - still a HUGE way to go

:todo_done_check_tick: wrote the final version of the intro email and intro blog post for hyperclay

[] email catchup :confounded: | [ ] replanning to adjust for MLK

Just spent $99 to get the best templates for Astro that money can buy. Now working on moving my entire site off webflow and hosting it myself. webflow sux!

• Somna iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/somna/id6758006023

• created an admin account activation portal for oleno.ai which allows me to set-up accounts for customers, invite them to the account, and send them billing details | • Repurposed the self-serve onboarding flow so I can use it to configure the accounts, handling 90% of set-up for customers | • Created feature flag toggles and quota assignments so I can add/remove features or change quantities for content generated for each customer | • Added the ability to create a custom recurring invoice + 1-time fee to send to client | • Fixed a bug with suggested posts on distribution studio

Just published a new article + tutorial how you can scrape every image from a site using Gaffa (https://gaffa.dev/blog/how-to-automatically-scrape-every-image-from-a-website) based on a client project for a marketing agency that had a client who was being slow to provide the images they need so they used Gaffa to get them right from the source

• Update newsletter FAQ | • Build out next project some more

Scheduled 6 Linkedin posts & 2 blog posts for the coming weeks

:todo_done_check_tick: Did a bunch of debugging on the live-sync feature for Hyperclay, things are in pretty good shape now. Need to do more testing before making 2 min intro video.

• poach.vc newsletters (got another custom tracking sub!) | • more elmohq.com open sourcing work | ◦ cleaning up the interfaces allowing switching between the different deployment options (wip). this would be so easy to do in something like tanstack start instead of nextjs, just because it's easier to conditionally replace routes and middlewares and such. seriously considering making the plunge. | ◦ removing a few legacy things | • reach out to amor.dev trial that is likely going to churn (they haven't logged in for a week) but hopefully I can get some feedback

Lost my streak because of time zone but: | [ ] wrote PDF with new value prop

:todo_done: IMAP integration in nocodo: users can query IMAP inboxes via the agent

Writing a post about anti-guru after I spent 10 minutes reading a long post on X.com and in the end it was a sales letter. FML

• redo the newsletter landing page: https://randomdailyurls.com

Loading a new Napkin Math episode :passenger_ship:

• Finished building the admin panel for account creation + billing for oleno.ai - I can now fully onboard a customer myself, then create their billing + subscription | • Changed all (I hope) free trial links on the website to demo request

Alright, I'm going to start posting here to start keeping myself more accountable (and celebrate the daily wins) | | *A few fun experiments today.* | - Agentic Figma integrations | - Successful test of design cloning -> reconstruction | - live site -> figma dom inspection tool maybe? -> figma design clone -> agent -> html clone. Exceptional job of visual recreation. Passable component structure! Neat. | - Interesting note for anyone using the figma mcp - check out the agent instruction additionally returned by the MCP tool calls. `SUPER CRITICAL: [...] and IMPORTANT: [...]`. Guess we don't need semantic poison after all. | | *Binfluence 1.0's trial may convert to paid subscriptions soon* | - Gathered stats from Vercel and Google Analytics for a coming pitch (stats shown from 1 apartment block floor in Aus/Melb) | | *The search for new income continues...* | - Completed a system design task for a Founding Engineer role at Biographica (gene-editing x AI) | - partia

• posted year recap on twitter ($1k revenue in 2024 -> $50k revenue in 2025) | • registered twitter account x.com/tryelmo | • still grinding on elmohq.com open sourcing | ◦ adding more info to README.md | ◦ adding agent skills to encourage best practices | ◦ still tinkering with the interfaces between different parts of the configuration

:todo_done_check_tick: Wrote a script (with the help of AI) to do a regular, comprehensive, automated review of all 8 hyperclay repositories to see if they're release ready

[ ] I'm ready to rebuild my website and I'm going to do this crazy experiment where I try 4-5 AI website builders to see who's best. For now I have 1. Pineapple (rame club product)2. Webflow 2. Framer A 3. Claude co-work/code 4. Wix 5. Bubble 6. Lovable Ai 7. Figma 8. Replit 9. v0 | Suggestons welcome! so many options :wow:

Send revisions to video editor

• Review and fix feedback from Slack app directory team for @U06PVRUSPNJ

All do-able!

Birthday walk

Spent all day so far digging into a hellish "why don't these numbers match" analytics client question. At least the hours are billable :melting_face: :melting_face:

• work on SEO for all my projects by adding JSON schemas to everything and fix some issues | • worked more on the next project

• Back from vacation, with a fumbled streak :disappointed: but ready for my redemption arc :muscle: ready to ship more than ever | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ cleaned up template styles to look nicer for starter template, manual eval template and synth data template. Less colors, a cleaner, simpler cool palette | ◦ cleaned up mess of old spreadsheets from testing.

Day 1 (yday): :white_check_mark: | Day 2: :white_check_mark: | https://www.dirtyfaucet.xyz/002/2a-time-slots/ | https://www.dirtyfaucet.xyz/002/2b-job-screener/

• Completed first pass at redoing my marketing site with 53 programmatic SEO pages and a perfect lighthouse score | • Started posting to this channel to keep myself accountable

• fixed auth + join org issues with multi-user/team invites for oleno.ai | • fixed issues with roles/permissions for different user types - editor now correctly has access to everything but settings. Viewer has view access, but still need to test/tweak to make sure they can't trigger any changes anywhere | • fixed a few bugs in the onboarding/account management dashboard - still needs a bit of work before I can use it to onboard users

*More full time job hunting jobs today* | - Wrapped up another interview round with Biographica | - Had an interesting - but somewhat uncertain - chat with Neil Smith from Mettle | - Completed, deployed and submitted a demo for visualising geological blocks https://geo-demo.justshipped.link/ to Material Difference | - Includes flood and path fill vis! fun! | | | :man-shrugging:

• send api tracking proposal to a potential client for poach.vc | ◦ they wanted something slightly custom but it'd probably be low maintenance and be $5k+/yr if it goes through | • contracting

• Organised a hackathon on Thursday and built a “place a stopwatch or a rep counter on your videos” -app

• Improved Contentbot Claude Code Skill - added Typefully MCP support plus Astro & Payload CMS setup guide

• working on next project :bar_chart:

• more contracting | • finalized and merged in a bunch of the elmohq.com deployment configuration cleanups | • worked on optimizing the speed of prompts pages on elmohq.com | ◦ tinybird has a low query per second limit | ◦ I was using the same strategy as when I was using postgres for it, which was making a query per chart, and would render a bunch of charts, lazily loading and rendering as the user scrolled -> this led to hitting query per second warnings | ◦ now it loads all the data in one efficient query and renders the charts using tanstack virtual which makes it feel pretty snappy and avoids the limits (and because it's done in tinybird it's fast enough to do this all at once)

Day 3: :white_check_mark: | • https://www.dirtyfaucet.xyz/003/3a-short-answer | • https://www.dirtyfaucet.xyz/003/3b-dont-do-that/

• Finally added search to the newsletter site. I tried to find something and went, "wait, you can't search!?"

• Got first version of docs done and proxied for SEO | • Set up posthog across the website and dashboard | • Posted updates to the right channel this time

Day 4: :white_check_mark: | No time like the present | Unsubscribe

lots more elmohq.com work: | • extracted all mentions of the white-label brand and moved 100% of it into configuration | • changed plausible domain for white-label client | • improved the behavior of selecting a web query to use when redirecting back to the white-label client's site | • plan out rest of the open sourcing work in https://github.com/elmohq/elmo/issues/95 and reprioritized the roadmap

• fixed all remaining issues with onboarding process for sales-led on onleno.ai | • onboarded 90% of a prospect with no issues | • Improved some quality of writing for social distribution studio | • Added UTM tracking on links

• Deployed Clawdbot to a VPS, and started adding skills and automations

• got back on twitter. | • started moving of furniture from study to lounge downstairs, to work whilst looking at flowers outside | • ContentBoost v2 almost ready for launch. Caught up with potential customer and demo'd the features. Walked away with great feedback and he asked some serious questions! :)

• Started IndieBeers Brighton | • Freelance work | • Cosy app submission stuff | • Experiment with Claude for content creation

• ran another round of prompt updates to humanize the AI writer for oleno.ai | • Updated multi-profile queue for the social distribution studio | • added UTM tracking for basic analytics on links | • fixed some bugs with suggested posts moving to draft in distribution studio | • started the editing epic (major feature) for manual + AI edits on articles and resync with CMS | • fixed more links to free trial on the website - I think I caught them all now and moved to request demo | • scheduled a week's worth of LI content to test if the queue actually works properly

• Started building a free tools directory for SEO | • Made some progress on building a specialised agent for web scraping

a little bit of elmohq.com work | • make sure all number displays are using locale strings | • show admin link on the sidebar if the user is an admin | • make the prompts page responsive -> still not perfect but likely will be once the sidebar is collapsible

• Added more analytics events to the newsletter site | • A LOT more work on this week's project. Hopefully launching on Wednesday.

Day 5: :white_check_mark: | • Keep Going | • Can you repeat that

• starting to draw again, drew this capybara today | • dealt with my landlord and that’s all :joy:

• Installed Clawdbot on a VPS and added some recurring tasks | • Resubmitted the HeyPost to the Chrome Web Store | • Added cost per unit details and improved copy on AdApt's pricing section.

• I launched a landing page for an app I'm working on www.instantpython.com | • created a google ad campaign to test the idea (yesterday) |

:soon:

• fixed all sorts of small annoying things in my mono repo | • fixed some bugs with an old project (e.g. contact page failing) | • added advertising, for the newsletter, in the console to attract devs poking around in my projects | • do more work on this weeks project, which launches tomorrow :chart_with_upwards_trend:

Update on the ad campaign: | • 32 clicks, 572 impressions, average cost per click 60p. 2 emails

[ ] back on the xmas project i didn't deliver, picking it back up as I totally lost track. Adjusted next steps

• apply for sentry startups program | • fixed a bug in elmohq.com where if you interacted with certain elements when the page is still loading, they pointed to urls with "undefined" because what it was referencing wasn't loaded yet :man-facepalming:

• design work

• mostly calendar and catalogue adjustments

• created a distraction-free editing function for oleno.ai to make the editing experience easier | • Tested some of the AI editing functionality and fixed some bugs

Day 6: :white_check_mark: | • He makes a way | • Andy Dufresne

• contracting | • news.poach.vc + europe.poach.vc newsletters | • handle gdpr removal request for amor.dev | • thinking about ways to hand off projects without directly selling them | • add branding elements for elmohq.com that work for the local/demo/cloud versions and not just the white-label version

• Promote Cosy being accepted to Slack app store | • IndieBeers later | • Work on course

• ship, what I think is the most haunting thing I've ever made: https://wtfhappened2012.com

Rough hero section for my upcoming SaaS product: PythonStarter completed late last week. (Sunday). Feedback welcome! | (Not live yet - launch date: first week of March).

• launched the beta version of startpath.tech | • talking to first users

:todo_done: Shipped our first YouTube video for Napkin Math! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn6jNkabBFY

• promptfast.co updates | ◦ researching openai’s public llm-as-a-judge prompts and UI | ◦ set up profiles in Brave to get around known google add-on auth issue (terrible design flaw by google) | ◦ think I am gonna redesign all my eval templates… :face_exhaling: | ◦ designed LLM-as-a-judge Eval template (better layout) | ◦ I need think of a way for set up a set of pre-written eval prompts that users can use as starting points instead of them writing it out so it’s easier for them to get going. | • drew another capybara

• made a change to the content chain to remove the humanizing function after article QA. I had already made significant changes at the start of the chain to improve writing, and turns out that the sanitize/humanize function actually made the writing worse instead of better. Random find, but happy about it. | • Continued fixing bugs in the editor feature for oleno.ai | • Fixed a bug with posting to X(twitter) via oleno. Should unlock X posts in the queue now.

• Got basic task generation working for browsable to chain data analysis with scraping API calls

[ ] paperwork for consulate | [ ] a bit random but created a nice AEO checklist for my / clients websites | [ ] building remaining kaey databases and figure out what's missing on the Notion template

Day 7: :white_check_mark: | • it can’t rain forever | • gamechanger

• for elmohq.com | ◦ change how the number of prompts are limited per brand | ◦ allow overriding "branded" and "unbranded" tags with user tags | ◦ fix bug in virtualization when switching between which prompts are visible which resulted in spacing errors | ◦ fix bug where there was a delay for allowing a user to access a new org they're granted access to

*Day 8:* :white_check_mark: | Seeing improvements: | It’s getting easier to create 2 artefacts, with meaning in my 90 mins timebox. More fun to create. Also less daunting to promote. | • No one cares | • Sovereignty

:todo_done_check_tick: Finished writing the launch email and launch blog post for Hyperclay and posted about it in <#C014N6XP8MV>

:todo_done: Recorded podcast interviewing the Remotion founder | :todo_done: Hosted IndieBeers London | :todo_done: Worked on plan to create first Idea Frameworks video

:todo_done: Launched Changeflow on Product Hunt | :todo_done: Added to Show HN | :todo_done: Setup Indie Hacker profile and first post | :todo_done: Demo call with ideal ICP

• did another successful onboarding for oleno.ai, sales-led onboarding is running much smoother now | • fixed additional bugs in the account management/onboarding dashboard | • had a good chat with my CTO coach about architecture and schema for how to manage the complexity of context + studios + jobs in a scalable way that will speed up development over time | • Updated product/dev docs | • Updated help center articles | • Updated changelog | • Sent email to users about changes + end of early access

• promptfast.co updates | ◦ dogfooding my own product for llm-as-a-judge eval | ◦ working on llm-as-a-judge eval template (I have overcomplicated and now simplified things) | ◦ thinking through real world multi-faced eval I will have to do for work

:todo_done: Use the cool checkboxes today, instead of the bullet. | :todo_done: Fix a bug with the emojistime.com search when searching in Korean | :todo_done: Do a big SEO update for https://wtfhappened2012.com | :todo_done: Make a tiktok video for the newsletter account, plus do more social media posting. (One post is doing well!)

• OAuth verification approved by Google :tada: | • Onboarding flows updated and first customer lined up | • Passion project underway and first data scrape complete…:chicken::blue_book: :eyes:..coming soon

Made the decision yesterday to move forward with shipping *Parallel Agents* as a freemium VSCode extension :robot_face: :tada: | | So today became: | • Building an end-to-end multi-agent workflow for scraping similar target sites to identify and extract 5 core and 5 secondary categories of goal aligned data: | ◦ *Site Semantics* | ◦ *Common Phrases* | ◦ *Style Choices* | ◦ *Component Patterns* | ◦ *Site Layout* | ◦ *Secondary:* | ▪︎ *Trust & Credibility Signals* | ▪︎ *Technical Differentiation* | ▪︎ *Call-to-Action Strategy* | ▪︎ *Developer Experience Showcase* | ▪︎ *Pricing & Value Proposition* | • Using the aggregated + ranked data from this to build a draft smoke/confidence test site for Parallel Agents | • Picked up Astra and started the process of building a real landing page | • Product name TBD | Draft/generated draft below. ooo, 10 Agents! :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: (It's not capped...)

TIme zone beat me but I got a little derailed today | [ ] did my Webflow Enterprise certification as I found out the deadline is Jan 31 :scream: | [ ] figured out if I can skip or cheat the other certification but I'm afraid not | [ ] organized my hobby project horse riding clining for next weekend :horse_racing:

• poach.vc newsletters

Updating the landing page for hackweeks.com to better reflect what we do: here's one iteration https://testing-variant-dot-com-ui.hackweeks.pages.dev/

• Building a nice Terminal wrapper for me to use Claude Code (and looks like a modified gameboy) - calling it ClaudeBoy - will share updates here. Thinking of making it easier to open my various projects with a simple UI (instead of having to use the cd command).

:todo_done: Introducing ClaudeBoy: a nice Terminal wrapper when I can open a project and fire up Claude with a single click (or use my keyboard), instead of multiple clicks each time

(local Mac app made with Swift)

• promptfast.co updates | ◦ ran first llm-as-a-judge eval in promptfast :muscle: | ◦ completed app script for llm-as-a-judge eval template | ◦ added template to template page in app sidebar. | ◦ published to marketplace :rocket:

• Actually, go to Ramen Space for once. | • Build out the UI for my next big project. :chipmunk:

Made this landing page for a product that doesn't exist... but I want to make

• worked with my CTO + CPO coaches to figure out the next phase of architecture for oleno.ai - will be much more flexible and easier to add more governance studios + demand-gen jobs | • Built the story studio to load up case studies, anecdotes, prospect stories, etc to be called in the content chain

:todo_done: Another demo call (damn, I suck at these!) | :todo_done: Refined website copy thanks to @U01RXBUS47K | :todo_done: Whole new pSEO strategy defined, more confident on this one | :todo_done: Help Gayle get the directory listing going | :todo_done: More google ads fixes (Thank god its a CC skill now so fixing is easy)

:todo_done_check_tick: Running through my deployment checklist to deploy the latest version of Hyperclay

Day 9: :white_check_mark: | • Hablamos | • Keep Up

• Extensive keyword research

[ ] take Webflow cert exam

:todo_done: @U06PVRUSPNJ stickers arrived

Plushies soon

• Work more on the backend for the next big project

Day 10: :white_check_mark: | • Kill Switch | • We can have it all

• emailed people that downloaded the free sample of the poach.vc vc database to see why they didn't get the paid version | • spent a lot of time considering a rename of elmohq.com but decided to stick with it | • significantly improved poach.vc's twitter -&gt; linkedin enrichment (15-20% better on the test set) | • added api support for poach.vc for an additional $50/mo. tbd if that's a good price point for it.

Turned my 4-prompt chain SEO content writer into a ruby script, that I get set off running in the background. | | Takes the top 10 SERPs for a low KD keyword and outputs a 3000 word article + artwork that should hopefully rank well. | | Example content:

• Add a tools section to the newsletter site, as I've made free tools to make email better. Such as unfuck.email. | • Do more work on the backend for upcoming project

*Day 11*: :white_check_mark: | • Let him cook | • Gloom

Just about getting this shipped before the weekends over! | | Just launched the first taster Acyc.ai (website WIP :sweat_smile:) tool: | https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Acycai.agent-worktree-trace | | I'll upload some images to the store tomorrow. | | Basically it highlights files that are being edited by your local AI agents when running in worktrees. | | So you can run (n) agents locally and see the magic happen live in the File Explorer (and not cause conflicts) | | I'm pushing out some open-source tools to bring in some trust.

https://github.com/Acyc-ai/agent-worktree-trace | | Tracks and highlights files changed in local git worktrees (by AI Agents) - for VSCode | | • _Track agent activity_ across multiple parallel worktrees (live) | • _Identify potential merge conflicts_ before they happen | • _See local changes_ that might conflict with agent work

Weekend shipping: | • Monthly payroll (UK) - Agent gathers any missing information from employees/HR before running payroll on your chosen date, sending the generated spreadsheet to | • generate any ad hoc reports as XLSX/CSV/MD file attachments in Slack | • improved company-wide hybrid search across all employee profile data | • Set deadlines for background HR tasks, issue reminders to participants | • Weekly/Daily manager summary of team leave each morning in slack

• contracting | • using LLMs to map out AEO competitor feature sets and brainstorm how to future-proof the data model + apis for these use cases | • work on deprecating group/categories for elmohq.com in favor of tags for organization (wip)

• 2 months worth of expenses and book keeping

• write newsletter

Spent the last two days building Basan.ai (site before the product, no product _yet_ :sweat_smile:)

• Major epic today documenting a central set of best practices for oleno.ai content | • Started the migration to the new architecture that will make content chains much more robust, flexible, and scalable

:todo_done: New Napkin Math episode with the Remotion founder out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pOpbqj18Lk

• Update my newsletter dashboard to show me more stats | • Work a LOT to get this weeks project over the finish line

• aesthetictemplates.carrd.co updates | ◦ decided to do some stuff for this (makes ~$500/year) | ◦ launched new F1 template from user request: https://carrd.co/dashboard/build/demo/4a8ae46fa657122d | ◦ organized all website templates people have requested (~40) | ◦ started on space/sailor moon themed templat

*Day 12:* :white_check_mark: | • Vengeance | • Socks and Sliders

:todo_done: Mega pSeo/free tool strategy planned out and backed up with data | :todo_done: Client work | :todo_done: Created queue skill to queue up tasks in Claude code and have them run overnight - let's see how it does in the matching

• Added 17 more Reddit scraping endpoints | • Much improved the dashboard UI

Right on time: | [ ] planned week - it's a busy one and I have to take Friday for a personal project :racehorse: | [ ] failed to find an au pair - starting from scratch :sob: | [ ] pushed forward theNotion template development, trying not to fall in rabbit holses, but is taking more time than I hopes and I also enjoy it less than I hoped

• Revamped the logo, colors, and typography of HeyNews and HeyNews Newsletter Tools websites | • Started adding new features to Diet Tracker | • Moved my personal website from WordPress to Astro | • Added OpenClaw to my Slack workspaces for working in message threads in parallel

• finish newsletter

:todo_done: Finally restarted one of my earlier projects, dwata - financial data, tasks, calendar management by data extraction from multiple email/cloud accounts and local storage, super early

*Hey Ramen Space crew* :wave: | | Sharing something I've been working on that might resonate with anyone building with AI tools. | | I've been using OpenClaw (open-source AI assistant) to manage my days - meeting notes, goal tracking, daily briefs, the works. It's local-first which I love for privacy, but I noticed there's no built-in way to back up the "relationship" you build with your assistant over time. | | So I built *OpenClaw Checkpoint* - a simple backup tool that snapshots your AI's entire workspace to a private GitHub repo. One command to backup, one command to restore on any machine. Your assistant picks up exactly where you left off. | | Wrote up why I built it and how it works here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-almost-lost-my-ai-assistant-so-built-time-machine-anthony-francis-fobce/?trackingId=UXCJDrieTzWCcJDKDtznBg%3D%3D | | Curious if anyone else is playing with local AI assistants (OpenClaw, Ollama, etc.)? How are you handling continuity across devices? Or just

:todo_done_check_tick: Putting the finishing touches on Hyperclay before sending out the big pre-launch launch video (tomorrow?)

• answer questions about amor.dev to potential buyer | • add user-submited domain to shelved.domains | • look at purchasing domain + seo base for elmohq.com | • cancel acquire listing for poach.vc | ◦ it grew back close to an all time high in January, but it's just an awkward place to sell | ◦ might bring someone on to maintain

• more architecture migration and testing for oleno.ai

:todo_done: Cleaned up marketing second brain project, too unwieldy and disorganised | :todo_done: Fixed user reported bugs | :todo_done: Fixed LinkedIn profile | :todo_done: Client work | :todo_done: Great session on CC for marketing

• Got custom task/API generation working

• aesthetictemplates.carrd.co updates | ◦ launched new sailor moon template - very outside my typical aesthetic lol https://carrd.co/buy/0f626a40cb1a37f8 | ◦ The two users who requested it are very stoked on the template, so that is nice. Gonna try to do this once a week for a bit, have like 28 more users who have requested templates. | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ work on llm-as-a-judge eval exercise | • not a side project, but launching a big AI feature to production today. First big feature I helped develop :muscle:

• More work for tomorrows launch | • Work on the big project for next week

Day 13: :white_check_mark: | • Star Ferret | • Marble Tilt

• finalized my weekend plans :horse_racing: | • added automations and template - just a couple of touches missing to the templates but starting to see the end | • client email trying to get paid

• Record Napkin Math ep 24

• scheduled / recurring tasks ("run a weekly pulse survey at 4pm Friday")

:todo_done: First attempt of financial data extraction (simple regex based) in dwata - dates are wrong :sweat_smile: and many emails simply not matched.

:todo_done: Launch a crazy experiment: :heartbeat::heartpulse::two_hearts::revolving_hearts: https://sendastranger.love

• :chicken: Chicken Bible v1 is live :poultry_leg: | • Ate Chicken Ramen for lunch :ramen: | • Planned: mapping popups/market stalls/sandwiches

• :todo_done: Updates to Agent Worktree Trace (open-source) to improve: | ◦ Cross-platform support, now works on Windows | ◦ Now displays indicators for files not staged - all edited files! | • :todo_done: Launched the tool information page and documentation: | ◦ Tool home: https://acyc.ai/tools/agent-worktree-trace/ | ◦ Docs: https://acyc.ai/docs/agent-worktree-trace/introduction/ | • :todo_done: New framed brand image for github org

:todo_done: Bug fixes in changeflow | :todo_done: Trackly -> Changeflow migration flow setup | :todo_done: Support | :todo_done: Implementation plan ready for GovPing

• aesthetictemplates.carrd.co updates | ◦ working on wikipedia themed template (user request - rad idea tbh, current state below) | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ worked on llm-as-a-judge eval exercise | ◦ finalized AI eval course | ◦ launched it to Skool

• news.poach.vc and europe.poach.vc newsletters | ◦ tried to do a crossover issue to drive more paid subscribers to the European one | ◦ didn't work at all | • for poach.vc added a 30d expiration for linkedin enrichment | • lots of work on elmohq.com | ◦ finished deprecating grouping/category feature | ◦ added an admin chart of active brands (recently broke 60) | ◦ removed a rather hacky implementation of production and local queuing | ◦ switched from bullmq to pgboss (tried DBOS along the way but pgboss was just easier) | ◦ testing and migrating production to the new worker infra

:wastebasket: purged all but 1 of my Outrank posts (~30 ish), turned out to be absolute slop

• quality updates to the new dynamic chain for oleno.ai | • migrated another studio to the new architecture

• Scheduled some posts for my LinkedIn and X accounts. | • Removed all the Turkish content on my personal website and moved it from WordPress to Astro framework. | • Fixed a bug that happened on my OpenClaw installation with the ClawdBot -&gt; MoldBot -&gt; OpenClaw name changes in the folders and file names.

:todo_done_check_tick: Was editing blog post for Hyperclay.com launch in Hyperclay itself and ran into a few bugs I had to fix, fixed them with help from Claude

• added a bunch of Notion automations

• Got instagram scraper working

• invalidate the idea on reddit | • client work

Day 14: :white_check_mark: | • I said no | • Revelations

• shutdown an old project that was dead | • added a graveyard to my personal website | • take the rest of the day off as I feel super burnt out today

submitted my chrome extension for review

• more quality fixes to the new dynamic chain for oleno.ai - once I have parity on quality, I can migrate folks over to a more scalable/flexible chain and get back to pumping out studios | • reworked packaging/pricing - still figuring out the best way to do it. Also gives me a roadmap of what features to build next to unlock the next pricing tier. | • Mostly locked in the product plan for the rest of the month

• aesthetictemplates.carrd.co updates | ◦ working on wikipedia themed template more | ◦ upped price of 1 of my templates to paid (all others are free, i make money on carrd referral codes) | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ dogfooding prompt refinement and eval

• lots of elmohq.com work | ◦ bugfixing for job-running on pg-boss (a few edge cases that are shored up now) | ◦ improve the sidebar design | ◦ made the prompts overview page more responsive on mobile | ◦ always use local timezones for lookback windows in charts | ◦ stretch out summary graphs to edge of time ranges when there isn't data for the edge days in a range | • more newsletters for poach.vc + fixing delayed sending for some issues | • met up with head of marketing for a dev infra company to discuss elmohq.com and catch up | • cowork with people I'm contracting for

One for today and yesterday now. | • Cracked high throughput inter-agent and cross-device orchestration for parallel agents today :wink: | • A little bitter sweet as I've also had to do a bunch of refactoring - but that's helped me get a better picture of what should be SaaS and what I may also ship for free | • A little more fun, I had a play around with Remotion (and hacked away at vscode in the web to pull icon sets/styling) to learn and create an instructional video for the extension launched last weekend

:todo_done: Migration AI working and migrating | :todo_done: Onboarded new customers | :todo_done: Fixed loads of initialisation bugs

Day 15: :white_check_mark: | • Intervention | • But we agreed

:todo_done: Better IMAP download management and SQLite pool fix in dwata | :todo_done: Financial data extraction helper with AI - still testing - an AI agent that user can run for any email and AI would generate regex pattern and test that the pattern extracts financial transaction data. Once saved, it runs without AI

:todo_done: CSS inliner library in Crystal github.com/osbre/css-inline

Shipped a lower-priced package for our AI ads agency :rocket: | | We now deliver 20 scroll-stopping ads for ecommerce brands in 48 hours. | | If they don't outperform your current best ad within 14 days, you get your money back. | | Aiming for this to get more leads through the door that we can convert into long-term retainers. | | https://copixel.ai

• 600+ programmatic SEO pages created (thanks Claude) | • Sitemap submitted to search console | • Market/sandwich/pop up databases set up

• more changes to dynamic chain - improving writing quality for oleno.ai - i'm now at 97%, some things are better than what they were before, but still a few hiccups happening before I can migrate users over.

• more elmohq.com work | ◦ tune job running more + better showing how late certain jobs are | ◦ better loading skeletons for the dashboards (less jumpy) | ◦ better virtualization for list of prompt charts (also less jumpy) | ◦ better separate parts of the site into pages | ◦ add an LLMs overview page to see which LLMs you are tracking and what features are enabled | ◦ make admin-related pages still be part of the sidebar layout | ◦ separate prompt details page into multiple tabs it's easier to navigate | ◦ remove prompt tag editing from the prompt details page | ◦ microsoft clarity is now optional and configured by env var | • poach.vc fixes | ◦ custom emailing wasn't going out | ◦ made a catch up script so it's easy to send emails that should have been sent out for previous days |

Something different today: | :todo_done: Built and deployed a live (interactive) demo of the open-source vscode extension launched last weekend using remotion programmatic animations :eyes: | *Go ahead, click the extensions button* | | Other deployments: | :todo_done: Real-time agent state signalling dashboard integration (demo coming soon) | :todo_done: My Portfolio / startup profile page has had a bit of an update - added project listings, detail to work experience and content updates

:todo_done: loads of customer admin | :todo_done: tidied up my marketing second brain | :todo_done: started the main new marketing strategy- govping

• aesthetictemplates.carrd.co updates | ◦ finished wikipedia themed template more | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ prompt engineering and running evals | ◦ figuring out the right level of model performance needed for different use cases like summarization and q&amp;a

Day 16: :white_check_mark: | • Overwhelmed | • Clarity

• worked a lot on the next project :chipmunk:

• adapt.heynews.co updates: | ◦ Implemented Stripe checkout for paid plans | ◦ Implemented affiliate program tracking | ◦ Implemented `dataLayer` events for important actions on the app | • heynews.co updates: | ◦ Implemented the brand updates to the website and the web app

• clauding

• Slack interactive elements | • Google calendar sync for leave etc

Day 17: :white_check_mark: | • Use AI | • Swish

• adapt.heynews.co: | ◦ Implemented a 7-day cache to prevent multiple scrapes for the same URL | ◦ Added collapsible sidebar navigation for quick access to Dashboard, Settings, and Admin pages, replacing the top header bar | ◦ Embedded affiliate program to the app sidebar | • On adapt.heynews.co, heynews.co, and websitetosocialpost.com: | ◦ HubSpot chat widget now respects cookie consent: only appears when the user has accepted analytics cookies, and disappears if consent is revoked | • websitetosocialpost.com: | ◦ Removed legacy Vite SPA files (a.k.a Lovable leftofers) from

• contracting | • added a prompt summary api endpoint for elmohq.com

:todo_done: Much improved agent to create regex pattern to extract financial information from given email in dwata

:todo_done: Scan emails to find which emails should be processed with AI agent for financial data in dwata

:todo_done: Fixed a bunch of sync calls in async runtime issues

Day 18: :white_check_mark: | • Coerce | • Take it, it's yours

• adapt.heynews.co: | ◦ Blog styling improvements | ◦ The top navbar collapses into a hamburger menu on smaller screens. | ◦ Added blog authors, removed blog tags | ◦ Landing page banner removed: The "AdApt by HeyNews: Get 50% More Clicks" banner is gone, making the CTA visible on mobile | ◦ Replaced the CookieYes floating widget with a "Cookie Preferences" link on the website footer and web app sidebar | ◦ Sidebar status (collapsed/opened) now persists on all page views.

:todo_done: Email downloader improvements. Now I have 3297 emails on my local DB! | :todo_done: Privacy mode to help taking screenshots (mainly for myself) - works for financial data, extraction patterns (specific to user) and emails

• send newsletter

:todo_done: Full test with AI agent based pattern generation and then capturing financial data (telecom bills) with the pattern

in-voice.co.uk SHIPPED! | Would appreciate any feedback from the community :)

• aesthetictemplates.carrd.co | ◦ my wikipedia themed template is live: https://carrd.co/dashboard/account/library/buy/b5912c22467b6aa1 | ◦ based on requests for this site, i am going to start making small business related carrds for a new web template directory called biztemplates.carrd.co | • biztemplates.carrd.co [WIP] | ◦ started getting site set up. | ◦ reached out to guy who wants a book launch template | ◦ put together list of first 15 templates to showcase

:todo_done: Video demo of dwata to submit for Google Gemini 3 Hackathon: https://youtu.be/Uhs6SK4rocU :youtube: :rocket:

• adapt.heynews.co: | ◦ Added an affiliate program landing page | ◦ Added the first PPC landing page | ◦ Added Google Analytics events via Google Tag Manager API

:todo_done: Shipped first oss skill stealth-browser so Claude can read pages without getting blocked `npx skills add changeflowhq/skills` | :todo_done: Built skills for blog posting, social posting, image generation and video animations | :todo_done: Client work | :todo_done: Google ads audit and tweak | :todo_done: Made all my skills self learning

• Overlooked Nandos! 49+ spots added | • Created automated queue engine to easily add new restaurants | • Created content engine to draft posts/blogs based on my content ideas and create feature card imagery for social posts | • Content pipeline set up - weekly rhythm set, 4x templates created, first blog live and 3 in draft, posted first ever tiktok

• Pushing hard to get this week's project done. :hot_face:

Huge coding and problem solving day today. Very happy with results. | | Moved the needle with productionizing my Parallel Agents orchestration tooling :zap: | | :todo_done: Remote agent window streaming | :todo_done: First pass on live dashboard implementation | :todo_done: Dynamic task execution state change monitoring | :todo_done: Task/Agent archive functionality | :todo_done: Task queues and agentic task definition flow | :todo_done: Local session reload+persistance | | Today had me sweating! :hot_face: Phewf. Now for the fun part!!!!

• sentry and looking at speed improvements for elmohq.com | • poach.vc call

Day 19: :white_check_mark: | • Ship it | • Scale

Hey everyone, been distracted but I'm going to get back to posting in here | | :ship: Polishing improvements to artist site design | :ship: Added correct SEO metadata to site | :ship: Fixing layout for art in /works index page to look good on different screen widths | :ship: Hunting down issue with Cloudflare analytics

Shipped my new local web freelancer site | Webdevherts.co.uk

:todo_done: Shipped a new YouTube video with @U01348A74VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVuoeRifqg - curious as to your thoughts!

:rocket: Shipped *Trackora* yesterday – trackora.io | An all-in-one workspace for freelancers. Instead of juggling Toggl + Notion + spreadsheets + invoicing apps, everything lives in one place: | • Time tracking (timer or manual) | • Project &amp; task management | • Client management with shareable progress links (clients can see updates and leave feedback without creating an account) | • Payment tracking (one-time, milestones) | • Analytics to see where your time actually goes | • Estimate vs actual comparison so you price smarter over time | • Team collaboration if you work with others | appreciate any feedback from the community

I'm about to ship a free Chess CLI tool built in JavaScript. | Anyone interested in trying it out?

A command-line chess assistant powered by Stockfish that helps you analyse positions and suggests the best moves during your games.

biztemplates.carrd.co is live :checkered_flag: | A curated collection of carrd templates for professionals and businesses. | _*I’d love feedback*_ if anyone has a sec :pray: If anyone sees this and has feedback, templates to recommend or any other ideas please let me know.

• turned on indexing for biz templates | • set up Google analytics | • set up google search console | • added backlinks to aesthetictemplates.carrd.co

• Watched https://ramenclubhq.slack.com/archives/C09NYSPATPV/p1770140224951109 | • Switched from Notion marketing brain to claude based, built some great starting context for it | • Completely revamped my marketing plan for this quarter as a result | • Upped my pricing 33% from $29.99/y to $39.99/y

:todo_done: Multiple small fixes to financial transactions UI | :todo_done: Support for own Google OAuth client app for privacy of Google services auth | :todo_done: Multiple OS binary releases from GitHub: https://github.com/brainless/dwata/releases

:todo_done: Client work | :todo_done: Blog posting skill completed with pretty images | :todo_done: More govping research ready for an implentation day

• fixed a couple bugs in the legacy content chain for clients | • Made more improvements to the dynamic chain for feature factuality, writing style, better screenshot matching. I'm pretty close to having it right, which means I'll be able to migrate users and get back to feature development.

• Mainly posting/planning content, brand assets, blog live | • Learning tiktok and all the algorithm rules | • Added Halal flag to website and backfilled 40+ spots

• converted Elmo fully to tanstack just to try it out. Things feel surprisingly snappier and the multi-environment deployment configs are cleaner. Now poring over a bunch of files and adding tests to see if I'm confident enough to release it

• working hard to get this weeks project over the finish line

• Posting about XreplyAI in launch sites. | • DM'ing 10 X users.

• versioned employment contracts with structured pay and terms extraction

Day 20: :white_check_mark: | • Positivity | • Calm down

• New Napkin math episode (topic ideas welcome) | • Finish specs for new analytics feature in @U06PVRUSPNJ (that will be readable via API)

• bought ahrefs starter :muscle: | • for biztemplates.carrd.co - changed subpages to better align with keywords, added a page. Re-requested indexing in GSC | • set up site in Bing Webmaster Tools | • found more templates to add | • ask carrd subreddit what kinda landing pages they may need

• meta pixel setup (planning to run ads on my landing page) | • Launch in 10 directories

• Planned my AI features for this quarter | • Drafted trial email drip campaign | • Added first "news" post to the app

• implemented licenses for my Mac app with paddle integration | • Shipped the marketing and payment page for the Mac app | • Launch day soon come!

• finished testing the dynamic chain on oleno.ai - producing better quality than the legacy chain | • started building and testing Category Studio (for market category marketing) and enabled feature flag on my own website

• More work on this week's project. Got it deployed and running on the server. | • Got it streaming on YouTube. Pretty cool, I used this open source library. Soooo much easier than fiddling with OBS studio. https://github.com/steveseguin/browser-to-rtmp-docker

:todo_done: Govping pSeo in full swing | :todo_done: Automated blog ready to go live

• working on e2e testing for elmohq.com | • poach.vc newsletters

Day 21: :white_check_mark: | • Planning or Playing to win? | • HustlePornHub

Massive coding day again today. Progress looking good on Parallel Agents alpha launch by the weekend. Today was: | • Stateful agent implemented in Task Dashboard (user-owned cloud agents :sparkles: - time to play with some qwen) | • Dashboard/site auth completed | • Device auth flow functionally completed and tested (for remote agent daemons - vscode extension+cli) | • Device flow UI updates for vscode extension | • Started interactive remotion animation for parallel agents landing page | • Started refining UX/UI for initial testers

:todo_done: Refactor medical report (PDF) to data points extractor for client app

:todo_done: Alternative approach to financial data extraction in dwata - using a reverse template generation technique and it works locally on Ollama!!! :rocket:

https://x.com/hczdev/status/2021943966975795433 | Hey guys, I had a problem where I got a new machine and couldn't migrate my Claude Code environment. I built a single script to export &amp; import your Claude Code local data between machines. 3 commands (list/export/import), 7 data categories, with path remapping, auto-backup, dry-run mode, and merge strategies. ~500 lines of bash + python3. Fully self-contained. https://github.com/hcz1/migrate-claude-code

• testing and fixing issues on the new category studio for oleno.ai | • fixing QA enhance issues on the competitive studio | • documenting what is needed in the dynamic chain, blueprints, and orchestrator metadata for new studios to work correctly

• Working on a feature to store each custom prompt as a record in the database. Currently it's a textbox that is stored in 1 field, but I've been rotating my custom prompt from a list of prompts in my word doc... This has to end!!!

• Agent skills :muscle:

• Launch a crazy AI experiment: https://begbot.ai | An AI bot that must earn money to live. It will die, forever, if it runs out of money. I gave it: | | • An email account | • An X account | • A memory | • It can call other models, create videos, and images | • Surf the internet | • ...and more | Let's see how this goes. :smiling_imp:

:todo_done_check_tick: Sent the first early-access email for Hyperclay today

:todo_done: Google ads wrangling day 20 | :todo_done: Fixed Trackly user issues | :todo_done: Fixed a bunch of scraper issues | :todo_done: Ploughed on with govping

• Created 4 blog templates, blog rules and content guidelines | • CTA components | • SEO lesson from Charlie and inputs analysed and formatted into a set of landing pages | • Rewrote CV

busy day! | • decided on a new name for hackweeks.com - to be revealed soon | • Polished designtools.fyi, wrote a spicy blog post and shared to socials | • 3 hours in person planning on my design tool with a fellow hacker. | • Landed a workshop with cool neobank that rhymes with pies

• planning

Today felt good after getting my Agent Orchestration tooling core into a stable production state. | | Big thanks to @U049LA9C0AU for letting me fumble through it's FIRST (clunky) demo. | | • Resolved some challenging proxied signalling handshake kinks (no thats not a joke, but it is secret) | • Slowly shaping the UI into something usable | • Hours and hours of trying to come up with a product name | • Implemented user controls+model config over the managed orchestration agent | • First casual demo with @U049LA9C0AU | • SEO and keywords lesson from @UMYNN93SN :pray::pray: - thanks for letting us join @U09RZJ3M6GJ | Now. Getting back to product names... AgentRun?.. justagents.com?... jents.com?... OnlyAgents?... Gah...

• responding to someone asking about presetbot.com - a want-to-be customer finally arrives, after it no longer is possible to offer | • still struggling with end to end testing for elmohq.com | ◦ it's now able to use a CLI to configure and spin up an instance an then feed it test data before running playwright tests (which mostly pass) | ◦ act is pretty useful for running github actions locally -> good way to make sure the tests are consistent locally and on github, but very slow to iterate on due to lack of caching | ◦ got proper db migrations sqaushed and running as part of the process | ◦ fixed tinybird schema inconsistencies that only error on new instances | ◦ docker iteration speed + disk space bloat is awful, I'm sad to be back :cry: | ◦ tinybird local is such a monster to run locally vs clickhouse :cry: | • brainstorming future of poach.vc

Day 22: :white_check_mark: | • embarrassment | • gratitude

• https://github.com/RemoteCTO/seamless-claude | STILL EARLY DAYS BUT IT'S WORKING. | | No more waiting for boring compaction; it starts doing it in advance in the background. Caveats apply. But finding it MUCH more efficient than regular compaction flow. | | Claude code plugin ecosystem is still new, raw and janky - so the best thing to do once installed is point Claude to the README and have it configure. | | Pull requests / issues welcome.

• https://github.com/RemoteCTO/claude-code-timelog | ALSO THIS. SAME ROOLZ.

• https://www.markethours.world/ | Launched my first MacOS app: | MarketHours is a macOS menu bar app that shows when global markets are open or closed in real time. | Track exchanges like NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, JPX + crypto, view live countdowns, and switch between list or 24h dial view. Fast, clean, always one click away.

:todo_done: Scheduled Ramen Club newsletter for Monday | :todo_done: Scheduled our podcast with @U08DCG3D32T for Monday

Shipped a new blog post: *Information Was Never Free. And It Never Will Be.* | | Why "Free" Content Might Be the Most Expensive Thing You're Consuming | | A founder I know spent six months learning sales from podcasts and blog posts. Hundreds of hours. | Then she hired a coach for $5k. Two sessions. Doubled her revenue in 60 days. | The free content wasn't wrong. It just couldn't replace twenty years of pattern recognition in two focused hours. | | I wrote about the three hidden costs of "free" information — time, trust, and critical thinking — and why they compound faster than we realize. Plus a concept I call the "Algorithm Tax" that every founder is paying without noticing. | → https://writings.founderlabs.io/p/information-was-never-free-and-it | | What's the most expensive "free" lesson you've learned?

Head down on vybelocal - a mapbased community event and ticketing platform for the little guys that dont like how sterile and 2014 eventbrite is. | | me and my CF/our CS intern have been absolutely crushing it on the build: | | P.S. - Beef Steak.

remotion video for launching pentest.fyi h/t @U09GU446P1A for the impromptu remotion knowledge share

• fixed a bunch of bugs in the orchestrator and dynamic chain for oleno.ai - Lovable moved to Opus 4.6 recently and the number of bugs and mistakes it's made has 10xed what it was before, so 90% of my time is now spent fixing mistakes that shouldn't be there :slightly_smiling_face: | • Improved quality of writing for Category Studio articles - almost ready for customers/prospects now | • Fixed regeneration issues in governance studios for a prospect that's going through set-up/onboarding | • Fixed documentation on the playbook for building new studios, added a bunch of missing stuff so the next studio ships faster | • Fixed some bugs with competitive topics not being marked as completed and category studio quotas not resetting properly

• LOTS of updates for poor snookers https://begbot.ai/ | ◦ Made it so it slows wayyy down and doesn't spend money so fast | ◦ Made it so it takes more actions and less thinking | ◦ Fixed all sorts of other bugs | ◦ Still a lot more work to be done. If it lives until tomorrow, I'll work more.

:white_check_mark: G*eneral* | :bulb: Used Claude to find out that every CPU on Earth generating UUIDs simultaneously would hit a collision in ~1.6 seconds (birthday paradox vs 2^122 space) | :white_check_mark: *Infrastructure* | • pgBackRest backups live — dual-repo (Hetzner + OVH offsite), encrypted, with retention | • Rebuilt all 3 ops servers with corrected S3 credentials and endpoint config | • Fixed multi-repo WAL archiving (PG nodes needed repo2-host for offsite push) | :white_check_mark: *scrivenmark* | • Extracted markdown editor component library from Lettergraph — standalone repo, 68 tests, Vite build (5.3KB gzipped) | :white_check_mark: *ExitStack* | • Shipped portfolio balances with multi-currency support (GBP/USD/EUR) and quantity sell ladders | :white_check_mark: *https://github.com/RemoteCTO/seamless-claude* | • Released v0.2.0 — custom prompts, historical session summariser, nested session fix | • Added claude-summarise CLI to summaris

• design research

• [Shovel] Built a prototype for a new feature where you can paste in a tracklist (from a DJ set, radio show etc.) in any format and it will match each track to a Discogs release | ◦ Was intended to be for personal testing but thought it could be a standalone product on the Shovel site as a marketing tool | ◦ Can try it at https://matcher.shovelfordiscogs.com/

• MVP/demo complete | • Ad evaluator page live; explained here |

Collapsing a week into a day: | • completed template :tada: | • completed documentation | • Asked for feedback from some webflow people I know | • Generated maketing copy and marketing assets for promo, probably needs a video while I wait for testimonials |

• more poach.vc brainstorming | • poach.vc newsletter publishing | • lots of elmohq.com work | ◦ the CLI for launching is now fully functional to configure and launch a docker-compose instance of Elmo's AEO! | ◦ switched to using @clack/prompts (inspired by vercel's skills cli) | ◦ end to end tests now work | ◦ made 1w bar charts into "extended line" line charts that are easy to read even with one data point | ◦ make prompts with no brand or competitor mentions show a nicer error message | ◦ fix logo rendering for local and demo deployments | ◦ show user version and helpful links instead of a user button in the sidebar for local/demo deployments | ◦ fix up page titles and descriptions across the site | ◦ fixing proxying plausible events in tanstack | ◦ add ladle + debugging stories | ◦ various code cleanups | ◦ working on making docker images smaller and docker builds faster

:todo_done: Google ads audit and fix | :todo_done: Free tool ideas planned out | :todo_done: Govping design and plan complete

:white_check_mark: Finished building Custom rules! No longer is it a textbox but objects that can be selected!

Day 23: :white_check_mark: | • Will will smith smith | • Small Commit

• expenses

:todo_done: Calendar view improvements

• work on next week's project. It's coming along nicely and will be a funny one.

• design research

Day 24: :white_check_mark: | • Many small fires | • Official burnout

:todo_done: *EU Secure Infrastructure* | • Shipped pgBackRest dual-repo backups (Hetzner + OVH S3) with per-database logical dumps and | standby-preference | • Added backup failure alerting (OnFailure → ntfy) and fixed Grafana stale-dump detection | • SOC2 compliance docs: DR runbook, incident response, access review, log retention policy | • Scoped Wazuh HIDS deployment (BAN-147) — agent + manager architecture designed around cloud-init | 32KB limit

• Get a lot more done with this next weeks project | • Make snookers smarter by revamping his brain

Today I shipped V1 of our About page

• provided all tax forms to CPA :crossed_fingers:

Day 25: :white_check_mark: | • Professional Procrastination | • Find your tribe |

Got the Facebook module shipped. basically made the app twice as big. Fuck yeah

:todo_done:https://github.com/RemoteCTO/seamless-claude | • Shipped v0.2.1 — fixed Sonnet treating transcripts as conversations to continue instead of | summarise | :todo_done: *infrastructure* | • All 3 regions rebuilt and healthy (32KB cloud-init fix, S3 dashboards) | • Wazuh HIDS + Trivy scanning + 8 Grafana dashboards deployed | • Docker image tarball update workflow tested across regions | :todo_done:*health* | • 7-year blood panel trend analysis + Lab guide with PDF

:todo_done: Shipped a new pod on how @U08DCG3D32T built Hovercode.com https://x.com/charlierward/status/2023359612456407133?s=20

• Deployed a new markdown rich text editor in Bullet. All existing flutter rich text editors are buggy af. | • Planned onboarding screens redesign | • Planned new capture integrations /w whatsapp, email, and ios/android share sheet

:todo_done: Signed up for *second* Claude 20x MAX plan again :upside_down_face:

• Fixed a lot of bugs for begbot.ai | • I added images of snookers thinking. So much better. | • Almost done with this weeks project. Still putting the final touches on it.

:todo_done: Spanning insane amounts of tasks at once is very very very difficult to keep track of to do a nice list for shipped. So have Claude maintain it's own log of what it's doing all the time and then use that to compile a Shipped list proposal - for review, edit and post.

:todo_done: *Infrastructure* | • BAN-147: Patched ops stack, all containers latest stable | • BAN-147: Fixed Authentik | • BAN-147: SOC 2 / ISO 27001 bits — 7 governance docs (risk register, security policy, | vendor/asset/access mgmt, change mgmt, internal audit), plus updated DR and IR for current infra state

:todo_done_check_tick: Proposal to work with a cyber security consultancy with $20k annual budget doing 50 security questionnaires per week across 140 clients :sweat_smile:

:todo_done: Added video uploads with chunking, duration validation and progress bars; deduplicated media uploads via SHA-256 hashing; improved mobile layout with scrollable tabs and hidden sidebar stats; added admin dashboard; wrapped auth cards in outer card; improved calendar with media grid preview; added credit grants progress bar; optimized landing page copy and illustrations; fixed upload size errors, double scrollbar, polling view transitions, and a migration foreign key conflict; removed dashboard heatmap; updated blog styling. | | (thanks Claude :sweat_smile:)

:todo_done_check_tick: Mocked up some analytics pages with Claude - a lot of fun

• another round of writing quality improvements for Category Studio on oleno.ai - I'm like 98% happy with it now | • Changed how the quota system works - where there's a monthly quota with daily/weekly pacing. If someone pauses their orchestrator, they don't lose their quota anymore - they get 100% of the quota they paid for in the month. No carry overs | • Centralized where quotas are controlled and updated my account management dashboard to make it easier to assign quotas | • Created a password reset flow because one of my users forgot his password :slightly_smiling_face: | • Started scoping out the next two studios

:todo_done: Client work | :todo_done: Client meeting in London | :cry: No time to ship

:todo_done: Added 20 extra lives feature to @U06FGHN24J0 (they reset annually - the 365 day clock starts ticking the first day you miss moving forward, while you have an active streak)

Day 26: :white_check_mark: | • No I in team | • Teamwork

:todo_done_check_tick: Sent first Hyperclay launch email, prepping 2nd blog post and email

• more design research

• contracting | • reviewing massive nextjs -&gt; tanstack migration pr for elmohq.com

I've not been doing a good job of updating here - been too deep into development. | | Today: | :todo_done: Design iteration on launch lander site | :todo_done: Implemented secure + configurable webhooks for remote agent commands | :todo_done: Logo design iteration (and many fails | :todo_done: Extracted new brand colours from my favourite coffee pour-over v60 :call_me_hand: | :todo_done: Continued with feature parity updates for the CLI-only / TUI Agent Orchstration (currently VSCode is ahead on the implementation because I use it more :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:) | :todo_done: Added auto full-state sync triggers on certain events | | Some fun ones from the weekend: | :todo_done: Created a script for evaluating keyword presence in landers for SEO - how does everyone else check this? | :todo_done: Filled for the Company formation and Trademark! Tbc!

:todo_done: Tantivy based search of emails instead of SQLite FTS in dwata

:todo_done: Shipped a new Napkin Math episode https://napkinmath.fm/25

We've got over the nerves and gone public - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexbilbie_v10-launch-zapstack-share-74294886259706306[…]m=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAABwIdWQBFab7ZodwHJt34jGTeUUi5k5Gyj4

Has anyone noticed the new 'extra lives' feature yet? Feedback if so?

(for the <#C012943FV6Y> streaks leaderboard from @U06FGHN24J0)

Shipped my https://markethours.world | https://x.com/hczdev/status/2023751627157782866 | Would really appreciate anyone that could repost my X post please :slightly_smiling_face:

• Built v.0 of Product Marketing Studio for oleno.ai and testing | • Bug fixes in new quota system | • Bug fixes in marking different jobs as completed | • Quality improvements for category studio posts | • Activating and setting up a few user accounts

:todo_done:*scrivenmark* | • Decided demo page approach before npm publish

• Finally added the option to go to a once a week version of the newsletter. When someone unsubscribes, I "upsell" them on the once-weekly option. | • Wrap up this weeks project that launches tomorrow | • Work on next weeks project | • Fix more issues with last weeks project

• biztemplates.carrd.co work | ◦ started work on first business-related carrd template: https://carrd.co/dashboard/build/demo/036e136bac898e6d | ◦ went with a one-page landing page with a modern minimal look that could be used about lots of kinds of businesses. Charging $14 and works with carrd pro standard plan ($19/yr)

:todo_done: published blog post | :todo_done: client work | :todo_done: fixed html 2 markdown scraping and storing | :todo_done: first govping sprint complete

:todo_done_check_tick: landing page to test MSSP proposition https://responsehub.ai/responsehub-for-mssps

• submitted template to Notion Marketplace for $399 :eyes: | • Set up webhook to get notified of template sales

:todo_done: Client work and invoices | :todo_done: Loads of Tibbie improvements, looked into adding analytics

• New version of Browsable published that generates a scraper from any URL

:todo_done: watched claude code recording | :todo_done:Added feedback button on app

Day 27: :white_check_mark: | • The Hard Way | • Stream

• Project and session management improvements to the agent monitoring dashboard | • Reddis caching for webhook bursts | • A few state tracking tweaks for the dashboard | • Remote agent command tweaks | • Added double gated (workspace/client + external/task level) task execution options for dangerous behaviour (non-worktree/workspace execution and claude --run-dangerously) | • License and usage disclaimers | • PostHog error logging for upcomming usage | • Turned my portfolio sites node graphic component into a npm package for future fun :man_dancing::mirror_ball: | Started testing on the current builds + dashboard in prep for testing with Ramenteers | | Tomorrow should be wrapping up webhook testing and we should be ready to go! :partying_face: | | Thanks @U09HQHJGDTR for the SEO tutorial!

• lots of work on elmohq.com deployment interfaces. trying to get tanstack changes merged.

:todo_done: Infrastructure | • Shipped CDN-fronted app stack — Bunny pull zone with WAF, health monitoring, and multi-origin | failover across 3 gateways

Sharpened LinkedIn &amp; website positioning to beauty niche vs. all of ecommerce

:todo_done: Started https://github.com/brainless/rustysolid as a template for a Rust, Actix Web + Typescript, Solid based opinionated template to build fullstack web apps using coding agents with a strong typed system

:todo_done: BM Ops | • End-to-end CDN deployment: Bunny pull zone, LE certs, WAF, origin IP firewall lockdown | • Fixed ACME challenge serving through CDN in IaC template | :todo_done:Infrastructure | • Rebuilt 17/19 servers across 5 tiers with updated cloud-init | • Fixed cross-region Prometheus monitoring + rewrote Docker dashboard | • Clean tofu plan, CI passing

:todo_done: Planned an OpenClaw Demo Night at Ramen Space | :todo_done: Got accepted onto official OpenClaw Luma calendar (plus Luma's London 'AI' and 'Tech' calendars) | :todo_done: Got a drinks sponsor and great speaker from CreateWith.com (thanks @U09E77GUY68 @U0AB3A4TEPP) | :todo_done: Avoided being sued by Disney/Apple for our cover photo (so far)

• Launched this week's project: https://thingsaisay.com/ | • More work on the newsletter | • Fix bugs and make sure 'Snookers' gracefully passes away :joy: There will be something funny, I think he's gonna die soon. begbot.ai | • Work on next weeks project

:todo_done: Shipped a new YouTube video for Napkin Math w/ @U01348A74VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0S33B5zSI

Loving this channel atm - so much cool stuff being shipped :shipitparrot:

• [Shovel] Built a little tool for experimenting with animations using textmode.js | ◦ Could be cool for creating some real-time in-app animations | ◦ But mostly motivated by creating some snippets for product promo videos

FYI @U09KY04GK4L @U074ASE7YF7 @U01JL2N516D @U08JWBM31QF @U07TJJL4VSL @U08BJNQH5UK | | Added an 'extra lives' feature to the @U06FGHN24J0streaks bot: | | • Introduced Monday | • Next time you build a streak, and then miss a weekday, you will trigger a 1 year time window in which you have 20 'extra lives'. | • These will automatically be deducted from you for additional missed weekdays, and reset 1 year after they start. | • You should only be notified when the first, 5th, 10th, 17th and 20th extra life has been deducted. | This is a work in progress. Let me know what you think, and any other feedback you have. Working through other stuff mentioned in this thread like: | | • Handling different timezones (instead of everything in UTC) | • Increased focus on individual goals, not just leaderboard goals | • Reminders via other platforms (like Telegram) | • Potentially an option to freeze your streak (like if you go away for a while) | • Reliability

(this is why like 30 people now have an active streak on https://powerup.so/ramenclub/leaderboard :joy:)

• more fixes to new quota architecture on oleno.ai - current customers are getting more content than they're paying for eating my margins :slightly_smiling_face: problem for me, not for them, haha | • updated all of my coding governance docs, Lovable had some drift in the last couple weeks, likely they changed coding models, and it got dumber. So needed to fix a few things to get it to code properly again. | • updated all of my KB Archive docs for my own Oleno instance to reflect the new features launched, positioning, market POV, use cases, etc. | • testing the new product marketing studio

:todo_done_check_tick: set up linkedin and Reddit ads to try and validate the ResponseHub for MSSPs proposition. Interesting to see the different CTRs for the different headlines, even with a very low spend.

:todo_done: *Infrastructure* | • Deployed EU-sovereign build server — Forgejo, Actions runner, Docker registry, all on private mesh | :todo_done: S*crivenmark* | • Core landing-page for npm component | • Slash command menu (8 block types, keyboard nav, keyword filtering) | • Full image insertion — three insertion paths (floating toolbar, /image slash command, source-mode), 203 tests

:todo_done: Completely revamped google ads campaigns | :todo_done: fixed a bunch of pdf scraping issues | :todo_done: Govping sprint 2 complete

• biztemplates.carrd.co updates | ◦ getting feedback from the carrd subreddit on my new template: https://www.reddit.com/r/Carrd/comments/1r81qlr/thoughts_on_landing_page_template/ | ◦ made some improvements based on feedback | • promptfast.co updates | ◦ working on new logo | ◦ working on better images for google workspace marketplace

:todo_done: Calendar improvements, and bringing it to the marketing page

• still figuring out the precise interface for elmohq.com auth | ◦ there's no auth for local deployments | ◦ whitelabel currently uses auth0 | ◦ I'm planning on using clerk for the cloud version | ◦ I have something that's working but super messy right now. Trying to decide if I should unify on Clerk (and then just connect Auth0 as a single sign on option for it, which costs some money per month but would probably be worth it) or if I should just use Better Auth for the cloud version and then also use Better Auth to connect to Auth0 for the white label version as well. | ◦ the way access controls are handled is also a bit entwined, so I'm looking at a better way to define this and keep it authorization separate from authentication | • sent poach.vc newsletters (and recorded the process to make it easier to hand off) | • talked with the people I've been contracting with | ◦ likely going to just do another week or two and then pause until Elmo is launched | ◦

Day 28: :white_check_mark: | • Digital Abundance | • Just focus and get it done |

• Project management - adjusting this week's sprint goals because it's a mess | • following up with some people who didn't reply | • asked for additional feedback

:todo_done: Showing my software building process with coding agents: :youtube: https://youtu.be/-MYreT-C4UE

:todo_done: OCR with Tesseract along with multi page PDF to text handing in client project, ReporGo. | :todo_done: Handle multiple clusters of notifications from same email sender to extract data from, in dwata

:todo_done: *Scrivenmark* | • Automatic markdown detection DONE | • Ghost text support (ready for AI-capable insertions) DONE | • Wired image toolbar button with URL validation blocking XSS injection vectors

:todo_done: Reserved @scrivenmark scope on npm

:todo_done_check_tick: Editing the 2nd Hyperclay launch email for early access users, sending it out soon

• finished updating my governance studios for the Oleno website (dogfooding) on oleno.ai | • more product marketing studio testing - starting to produce good stuff!!! | • Relaunched the pricing page with the actual packages and price points - wanted to get the inbound funnel going again | • took a bunch of product screenshots to load into my product studio so product marketing articles are richer

:todo_done: Infrastructure | • All 3 gateway servers IaC-rebuilt with full security stack (nginx + ModSecurity + CrowdSec) | • Canary health monitoring live across all EU regions via Bunny CDN | • Internal forgejo build box working, mirroring GitHub repos - automated actions listen to GH, build image and push to internal registry for deployment.

• Built a tracker-style sequencer for my ASCII animation prototype | ◦ Trackers are spreadsheet-like software that weirdos like Aphex Twin use to make music | ▪︎ I've never tried making music with a tracker but was always curious about them | ◦ The animation has a bunch of parameters like speed and colour that are in each column | ◦ There's a row for every second of time where you can change each parameter | ◦ Couldn't really find anyone doing anything similar with video so potentially an interesting research project

• Work on begbot. Snookers has gone on to a better place. :headstone: RIP snookers. | • Work on next week project | • Start working on one big final project

:todo_done_check_tick: cold outbound campaign on linkedin to drum up user research convos with MSSPs | :todo_done_check_tick: Linkedin ad wrangling and designed my own ad in Figma!

• _planning_ - prioritizing and deprioritizing to be more focused | • promptfast.co update: improved marketplace images (would love feedback if anyone checks out) | • next: going to make a promo video for yt

:todo_done: Shipped browser automations for Changeflow | :todo_done: Fixed up the resources, guides and kb sections | :todo_done: Loads of setup for onboarding trial customers | :todo_done: More tweaks to my google ads Claude Code skill | :todo_done: Hooked up up Claude Code to my email inboxes

• still struggling to get better auth and tanstack working with elmohq.com -&gt; it's so close but testing cycle as are slow

:todo_done: Got the first version of MCP ready, thinking about Slack integration next

• My $399 Notion template was approved... now let's hope someone buys it :four_leaf_clover: | • Links and promo for it posted: please share some love! :heart_hands: <#CN028BRC3> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/veronicapicciafuoco_webflow-pro-system-template-notion[…]m=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAGweeABOs-meZFWbTX9DUxaXastYNbcNd4

Day 29: :white_check_mark: | • OOO | • Exit Interview |

• Added ability to share scrapers | • Added admin app so I can view and debug users scraping tasks | • Improving the scraping agent

:todo_done: Fixed double button render on X bug

:todo_done: First version of bank statement template generator (Excel files for now) in dwata | :todo_done: Multiple fixes to increase the coverage of email body template generator - covers emails that do not have plain text - multiple strategies for HTML to text to retain similarities across emails with minor HTML differences

:todo_done: Leverage Coding Agents With An Engineering Mindset :youtube: https://youtu.be/wSPOP2lNmzI

• Been working on an analytics platform to help the ecommerce clients I work with

:todo_done: *bothy.ai / bothy.dev | Started building out an *ACTUALLY SECURE* platform to interact with your remotely running Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode sessions from your phone.

• AdApt updates: | ◦ Revamped landing page and improved overall copy across all website and web app pages. | ◦ Implemented rich text editor for newsletter content and ad copy inputs | ◦ Added feedback and changelog widgets to the app | ◦ Updated all web app pages to start with `/app` | ◦ Added keyboard shortcuts page | ◦ Newsletter style analysis is now generated by AI instead of using placeholder data

• Work on next week's project. :oncoming_automobile:

• more testing on the product marketing studio for oleno.ai | • started building + testing the buyer enablement studio

:todo_done: *Bothy* - thinking streaming and approvals are now working.

Set up docs! Mintlify is a great product

• sent out newsletters for poach.vc | • finally got tanstack changes merged for elmohq.com | ◦ site is feeling snappy and managed to cut down a lot of lines of code | ◦ used knip to remove a lot of unused stuff | ◦ upgraded some dependencies | ◦ fixed a bug (?) where one of our endpoints wasn't doing what the client expected -&gt; it wasn't technically wrong, just had an ambiguous meaning which is now cleared up in the docs and the behavior is different | ◦ started adding sentry (a lot of it worked pretty much automatically, but I'm still trying to figure out why databases aren't being instrumented automatically)

• Set up LinkedIn Ads campaign to launch on Monday, tiny budget to a very tightly defined ICP, to amplify an organic post that did really well | • Automated deep research on an ABM list's ad strategy

:todo_done: got complicated insurance quote automation running | :todo_done: got the scraping server’s to stop leaking resources | :todo_done: govping fixes

• more promotion for the template | • got access to Notion AI agents :eyes: could likely create a few to give the template more viz. I have zero views so far :sob: | • Updated main site to build some SEO www.notionize.it

:todo_done: created 2 new landing pages with different value proposition! Next item is to run ads on these and see how they convert

Day 30: :white_check_mark: | • Romeo Dunn | • Signal in proximity

:todo_done_check_tick: Fixing a bug with Overtype.dev before sending out Hyperclay’s 2nd newsletter in a day or two

:todo_done: Hosted a session about my workflow with coding agents with about 60 participants

:todo_done: *Bothy* | *IT WORKS!!* | Got native Android app built - interacting with Claude Code on my remote server. Concept is de-risk. Product build goes from here! :fire: | Damn I'm super happy with this.

• various bug fixing in quotas, topics, seeding, screenshot matching, weird h2s/h3s etc across the demand-gen studios for oleno.ai | • Started reworking UX now that there are lots more studios. Reworked the nav to mimic user behaviour instead of architecture. Reworked the dashboard so that it provides insights to a VP Marketing that can defend the content execution to the CEO/Board. | • Started planning Storyboard feature

:todo_done: created 3 X lists for small, medium and large size accounts that I want to engage with consistently to help build my audience on X

• contracting | • struggling with sentry in tanstack. seems like auto instrumentation just doesn't work for server-side in general specifically on vercel

:todo_done: Initiate new client project

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • First successful production deploy — binary + engine + systemd, SSE streaming working | • Shipped branding assets and ran parallel 6-agent audit (security, QA, CTO, UX) | :todo_done: *Infrastructure* | • Deployed analytics proxy (Umami via Bunny CDN) across 3 gateway regions | • Migrated CI from systemd runner to Docker executor — aligned config across live + IaC |

• Managed to get a new project working *ChatBotChess* where you can watch models battle it out 24 hours a day | • Looking for interested people to get involved in testing if they're interested :slightly_smiling_face:

• Finalized some characters to replace existing stock illustrations in my app

• built Storyboard feature for oleno.ai | • Did a bunch of UX work for how heads of marketing + content/demand-gen managers would use the software | • Launched a new dashboard overview that shows content coverage by type, audience, persona, product, features, use cases, and competitors | • Did a full integration of the audience, persona, use case, and product feature governance studios into all content chains, making the content a lot more focused for specific demand-gen tasks | • moved the architecture over to a content schedule/calendar to better manage the various content quotas across demand-gen jobs and visualize what's being produced next

I've published the Tech Building Cohort page ready for us to begin working on our marketing strategy

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • First draft of CLI working. So sessions are now shared between CLI / Web / Mobile apps and tablets

• Work on vibe validation

• bug fixing for storyboard for oleno.ai | • Starting another round of outreach for feedback + pipe building for full oleno platform launch v1 | • creating marketing plan for launch in March

:todo_done_check_tick: Finished designing a whole page (2+ hours) just for a prompt that will generate an example app that I'll reference from my launch email lol

• More work and clean up on this week's project

:todo_done_check_tick: proposal for pilot with NL based vCISO

:todo_done: *Accountably* | • Cleaned up Mac app: proper Logger, graceful test skips, async Phoenix reply handling | • Force-pushed mac-app as new main, archived Rails history | :todo_done: *Bothy / Inf* | • Ran out of GitHub actions credits | • Switched to self-hosted GitHub runners in my ops network | :todo_done: *Infrastructure* | • GlitchTip live with HTTPS + OIDC (Authentik), IaC merged | • Deployed 2x GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

:todo_done: Started working on my Slackbot. The idea is a one-click bot installation to your workspace, that can then be integrated with loads of tools (analytics, GH, issue trackers, social schedulers, etc etc) as well as built-in engines (marketing, HR, standups). Got the proof of concept working with GitHub integration

:todo_done: Pre sales call - learned a lot | :todo_done: Fixed a load of issues causing bandwidth logging on my proxies | :todo_done: Fixed atom feed and CSV feed tracking | :todo_done: Wrote a blog post | :todo_done: Client work | :todo_done: Govping ai data enrichment phase

• paperwork | • working on a new local event in mvd

:todo_done: fixed GA analytics | :todo_done: deployed free X banner generator | :todo_done: improved my claude agent setup

• Redesigned my tracklist matching tool | ◦ https://matcher.shovelfordiscogs.com/

• got first newsletter sponsor for poach.vc | • lots of admin / messaging people / looking up old data for projects | • cpa / tax work

• planned the week | • raked a whopping 10 views on my template and planned some more promo - ideas welcome | • organized a second :horse: clinic - might as well spin up an app :smile:

• Created scrapers for Vinted | • Fixed a bunch of bugs | • Improved onboarding after studying session recordings

:todo_done: Spent the whole day in farm life yesterday

Well. It's been a LOT of long days and nights, but Flocker finally reaching launch point for me. | | Bit of a longer list for the last 2 days because I've not posted in a bit and it's all come together. | :todo_done: Early-access user type, dashboard permissions and limits :disguised_face: | :todo_done: Glyph font hack for terminal/vscode fun | :todo_done: Additional agent permissions/security options | :todo_done: Added additional git introspection by default for status checking | :todo_done: Silly node-based graphics and A DUCK | :todo_done: End-to-end envelope encryption for all user data at rest (the little I hold) - allows for revocation, protection from leaks if any number of layers are breached (unless all, at which point all is always lost anyway...) | :todo_done: New 'Unified' control panel for simpler UX during early-access | :todo_done: Remote terminal access restored after some challenging dependency issues | :todo_done: Dashboard has far too many pages (early-access is re

Finally I have time to do the FUN part - UX, actual web design and using the hell out of this thing. | | If you're interested in being an early user of Flocker - for agent orchestration and observability tools - shoot me a msg!

:todo_done: Preparation for new pig sty

:todo_done: New Napkin Math episode https://napkinmath.fm/26

:todo_done: *Bothy - Transferrable, remote Claude Code sessions* | • Visual glow up! | • Switch sessions between sessions.

:todo_done: V1 of @U06PVRUSPNJ community analytics is in staging :face_with_cowboy_hat:

(test slack account not very busy lately, will drum up some more activity :joy: )

• Posted Tracklist Matcher on Reddit | ◦ Getting some nice comments | • Rebuild Shovel landing page | ◦ Can't keep giving Framer £18/mo | • Do something with gaussian splatting | ◦ Was blown away by this video a few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlieIe3CXJc

:todo_done_check_tick: halfway done with new personal site

• quality fixes on objection handling posts in buyer-enablement studio for oleno.ai | • finished backfilling metadata across topics, mapping all topics to audience segments, personas, use cases, products, features, and competitors | • started testing storyboard

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Shipped full Claude Code upgrade audit: pinned version, fixed large output parsing, sub-agent filtering, bash auto-background handling, nested session guard | • Sidebar collapse to icon rail + brand logo integration (22 new tests) | • Terminal table rendering for CLI + web, CI release workflow, setup-ci-secrets tooling | :todo_done: https://lettergraph.co | • Auth cookie fix, Better Auth schema alignment, wildcard DNS setup, visual QA pass | :todo_done: https://github.com/RemoteCTO/seamless-claude | • v0.2.2: upstream compatibility checker for Claude Code releases | :todo_done: https://tripneat.travel | • Extracted 18 UI components to shared Tamagui package, fixed pnpm duplication | :todo_done: https://vatsim.info | • Full Forgejo migration complete — CDN secrets, WAF tuning, scaffolding cleanup

• Wrap up this weeks project | • Start working on next week's project

• improved prompt eng course material based on student feedback

:todo_done_check_tick: So close :point_right:| |:point_left: to sending the 2nd Hyperclay email! I’ve got the prompt, the blog post, the interactive demo in the blog post, the ASCII-formatted email, even a tiny open source local version of Hyperclay — I just need to rewrite the blog post a bit so it’s more my voice (not AI’s) and record a 4 min video of generating an Infinite Canvas app as a single HTML file!

:todo_done: Progress on my little side project that I started Sunday. Hopefully by next month I'll have two SaaS products out that I'll be using myself every day :crossed_fingers::skin-tone-3:

:todo_done: i got feedback about own key vs full service subscription and overwelming response both here and X was full service is more desired. I listened and shipped full service approach and kept own key approach too.

:todo_done: New laptop migrated and running dev setup | :todo_done: Fixed another cloudflare block issue | :todo_done: Finally got a complicated 10 step js automation running | :todo_done: Support | :todo_done: Client work

• update a bunch of dependencies | • vite 8 beta makes builds 2x faster :exploding_head: | • contracting work

• Notion shipped custom agent and I created my first one! A pretty basic sprint changelog generator, but I have to say this is interesting, can go quite far potentially

• Fixed datadome blocks for Vinted | • Emailed early users

:todo_done: Invoice raised for client

• Making UX updates and testing Storyboard feature for oleno.ai | • Reaching out to prior deals to get demos booked for platform v1 launch in March

• Interviewing TiboMaker shortly

• Actually, build the sending of people's goals for: https://onegoal.email/ I never actually built this. :sweat_smile: | • Finish this week's project that is going live tomorrow. :car: | • Get a prototype working for next week's project. So crazy it works. :anatomical_heart:

:todo_done_check_tick: working 2 portal based questionnaires for my old company | :todo_done_check_tick: dogfooding responsehub | :todo_done_check_tick: improved DOM stripping of portal HTML for question extraction | :todo_done_check_tick: fixed a couple of other small bits

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Shipped engine abstraction wave 3 — compaction, templates, engine switching | • Reskinned and fixed all mobile apps | :todo_done: *Accountably* | • Production CDN infra — apex domain via Bunny DnsAccelerate, WAF + shield, origin secret, 3-region health monitoring | • Migrated hostname to accountab.ly apex, cleaned out legacy landing page terraform

:todo_done: Got workflow events working much better than before

:todo_done: Support emails galore | :todo_done: Mac scraping setup | :todo_done: Fixing more bot blocking issues

Today went a little sideways and I ended up vibecoding a side project (event / calss management system). Tried some old school tools I hadn't opened ina while... Airtable, Glide, Bubble, Softr and a new one Base 44 who must be spending big buck on google ads. In the end I shipped both a working admi dash in Airtable and a vibecoded app with mock data, but that looks quite legit. | I'm thinking more an more that visual develpment "drag and drop" style is quite dead. Ai is just going to code for us the real thing. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1phsVHq6zisuOnvq1q0SRNb6cn4bqRhL3/view?usp=share_link

:todo_done: shipped free X video downloader tool | :todo_done: fixed GA... (AI built a GA handler in next.js instead of using the plugin... :face_palm: . Removed all custom code and utilized plugin)

• legal paperwork | • Ai research

Had a late one trying to get my strange design browser working, and I did it! | • I upload local files to my 'design browser' and it works out the project structure, framework etc. It uploads it to a VPS, installs deps and runs a dev server. | • That dev server is then streamed back into my browser where I can either chat prompt or click elemnts to edit them, | • those changes get pushed back to the vps where a lil claude makes changes and compiles | • the result is live on the public web! Example: https://jb7-bmuyb.sprites.app/ vs my actual website here | UI is extremely functional, mainly can't believe I got it to work...

• reached a verbal agreement to sell both poach.vc and amor.dev, will share more when money is in the bank | ◦ creating asset checklists | ◦ separating out repos | • sending poach.vc ad sample emails to new sponsor | • bugfix for elmohq.com where new org memberships weren't updating in a timely manner | • contracting

Hyperclay 2nd email (early launch list) | :todo_done_check_tick: Email written and edited (3 days ago) | :todo_done_check_tick: Blog post written and edited (today) | :todo_done_check_tick: So many bugs fixed (today) | :todo_done_check_tick: AI prompt for generating a Hyperclay app written (yesterday) | :todo_done_check_tick: Tiny hyperclay local script written (2 days ago) | still todo: Record 4 min video of building simple Hyperclay app

:todo_done: Improve English site copy | :todo_done: Set up Posthog | :todo_done: Improve display of painting detail images | :todo_done: Add detail images for more paintings | :todo_done: Fix blur placeholder bug

Soft-launched my wordle x basketball game &amp; its socials :triumph: https://www.instagram.com/playstatletes/

• Launch https://loficar.com :car:

:todo_done_check_tick: Rewrote the Hyperclay app prompt to include Tailwind CSS in preparation for recording the 4 min launch video

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Shipped Admin Engine Management UI

:todo_done: Status update call with client regarding their launch preparation | :todo_done: dwata: Updates to the template based financial data extraction process - showing steps in UI, to help understand what is not working

• continue testing and setting up Storyboard for the oleno.ai website | • Configured two new customer accounts | • Fixing bugs related to configuring new customer accounts :slightly_smiling_face:

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Beginnings of remote file browsing / viewing / management - for remote Claude Code

:todo_done: Scraper hardening for RSS and Atom | :todo_done: Published blog post | :todo_done: Fixing bad feeds

:todo_done: Got Bluesky working on Tibbie | :todo_done: Building a multi-layered memory system for Puck

:todo_done: Print and bind colouring book for my nephew‘s birthday

• Tried organizing my files with Claude CoWork | • Really struggled with redoing my site, I'm trying several options like Webflow that I know well, Framer, Figma... and there is friction everywhere. Really starting to think visual development is dead

• moved otamatunes.com to point a new stripe account instead of a shared one | • poach.vc newsletter issues (first time with a sponsor!) | • collecting VC fund names that I'm allowed to post on the pocah.vc site as subscribers | • elmo: look into some bugs | • contracting

:todo_done: Improve mobile nav | :todo_done: Display smaller images to improve load times | :todo_done: Make improvements to /about page | :todo_done: Improve layout of paintings for desktop visitors

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Multi-pane interaction, scrolling and file management WITHIN the CLI | • Soon to fix that flickering | • Starting to feel like the Bothy CLI is becoming a better UX than Claude Code itself

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Can now view and switch between spawned subagents

• fixed activation issues from sales-led dashboard | • activated two new customer accounts | • continue testing Storyboard for oleno.ai | • fixed an issue with programmatic seo topic seeding. Added more variety in content sub-types, and removed mid/bottom-funnel content from those topics because they go through a different content chain

:todo_done: Initiated a new consulting project, a wedding management platform | :todo_done: Surfaced more of the reverse-template based financial data extraction in dwata UI

• fix the footer on the newsletter and added new social accounts | • work on next week's project :anatomical_heart:

:todo_done_check_tick: Redesigned Hyperclay Local into a Dropbox-style taskbar app

• almost done with personal site

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Now file browsing parity with web. | • Can do inline selection and editing with the Claude code session. | • Really starting to love this thing!

:todo_done: Fixed some bugs in the Tibbie post composer | :todo_done: Some new client work off a call | :todo_done: Down with the flu so took it easy

• Bug fixes | • Nearly completed new feature to chain scraping tasks/analysis with loops and conditions

• AAAAnd the new site finally shipped. Claude code did the magic in the end. Custom coded in HTML including the illustration diagram, responsive, hosted in seconds for free with Github pages :face_holding_back_tears: | ◦ http://eldur.studio :arrow_left: check it out

Having fun publishing my first ever npm package. A further evolution of my design browser - this time just a cli. | | • upload any js-based codebase to a VM in the cloud (supports vite react, astro and next sorta) | • claude in the VM is your building buddy - ask it to make changes to your hosted version and they should hot reload | • share the link with co-workers etc. | Much more to do (this was day 1 of build) but if anyone wants to have a go, run `npx ooda-cli` (you'll need a sprites.dev api key and to be logged into a paid claude code account) and see if you can riff on one of your react projects. | | _Tip: if the project doesn't run on the link initially, ask claude to get it running_

:todo_done: Auto pagination shipped | :todo_done: Fixed Govping sources | :todo_done: Researched and added more Govping sources

• contracting

:todo_done: Improve layout of paintings on desktop | :todo_done: Design tweak improvements | :todo_done: Set up TanStack router preloading :sonic: | :todo_done: Set up a few things for better SEO | :todo_done: Improve admin interface for creating painting detail crops | :todo_done: Create detail crops for paintings that were missing them

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Bothy now has 2FA and Passkeys. #safetyfirst

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Very important feature (easter egg) in the CLI. :joy::loud_sound:

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • *Integrations* |

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Kanban workflows (starts of)

:todo_done: Co-mentored a 4 hour class on software concepts for AI accelerator course

Threw my cli up on a lil webpage https://ooda.computer/

• More work on next week's project. Almost done. Trying to get mobile working. | • Each some good Chinese dumplings

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Shipped yomp lifecycle UX — delete, edit, default template selection, View Session linking, disconnected-session indicator | • Shipped full integrations stack — integrations UI, logo catalogue | • Shipped session persistence— full SQLite round-trip, multi-org listing, title auto-generation | • Fixed agent subagent visibility — event listeners were silently dropping 8 event types; agent tabs now render correctly | • Fixed MFA flow — TOTP QR code (qrcode.react), dark-mode-safe, otpauth:// URI

https://locationregistry.co/

:todo_done: Co-mentored another 4 hour session, on coding using Bolt

I shipped some copy updates today

Cancelled chatGPT. Long anthropic

:todo_done_check_tick: Shipped a lander for my new project www.clipform.io (vibe coded on and off for the last 6 months)

• fixed a bug in topic universe where it created formulaic variations of [persona] x [problem] as titles that were janky, instead of extracting keywords + feeding to LLMs for title creation | • Scheduled the rest of Q1 content calendar + Q2 calendar for oleno.ai | • Fixed some bugs with social media scheduling not going to the right profile ID (I have two profiles, brand + personal) | • Launched new website messaging to better reflect full v1 platform | • Started executing the marketing epic

• Write newsletter

:todo_done_check_tick: new personal site: neilcameron.me

• bought yet another domain and hooked up wildcards so all ooda.computer customers get their VMs on *.ooda.run domains (took claude ~15 seconds to hook that up :exploding_head: ) | • tested ooda on someone at a design breakfast meetup - painful to watch but learnt a lot | • TRAIN UPDATE: ooda can now publish static sites! first one ever made is about bees https://ooda.run/p/bub-astro-4pbp

• wrap up this weeks project, launching on Wednesday :anatomical_heart:

• Did the 6th interview this morning + sent a follow-up demo to validate the problem (might need to pivot) | • Did designs in Figma to improve the login screen + core flow

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Shipped zero-config GitHub integration — repos clone to the right subdirectory with sensible default instructions, no manual setup needed | • Workflow overhaul - and now tasks auto step through Claude code sessions!

• summarizing a bunch of operational info for poach.vc (and got a $370/mo customer!) | • bug fixes for elmohq.com | • :skier:

:todo_done_check_tick: Double checked 2nd hyperclay launch email in preparation for mailing it tomorrow

:todo_done: Govping code complete | :todo_done: Govping up to over 300 dark matter sources | :todo_done: loads more scrape fixes | :todo_done: Govping marketing tasks planned out | :todo_done: Client work

:todo_done: More progress on my time tracker | :todo_done: Going to build a simple website for a non-profit

• Planned week | • Identified blocker (video prod) for my template promo | • Identified blocker (blog infra) for my content plan

:todo_done: Separated the LLM SDK into its own project

:todo_done: almost done with auto dm feature on X follow!

:todo_done: Fix issue with lower-res painting image | :todo_done: Update about page with artist statement + Japanese translation | :todo_done: Improve desktop layout of /works page | :todo_done: Add missing exhibitions and improve /exhibitions page design

• moving on to marketing + sales epic for oleno.ai | • Built an auto-indexing function in the Oleno website CMS to automatically index pages on Google and Bing | • Set-up wikidata and company entity schema for technical SEO | • Fixed a few other technical SEO stuff | • Fixed a few quality updates on the programmatic SEO studio based on customer feedback.

:todo_done: Prepared for upcoming client demo (consulting work)

:todo_done_check_tick: Published new version of hyperclay and hyperclay-local this morning, email goes out today

:todo_done: *Accountab.ly* | • Built complete design system foundations with Claude in paper.design — colour palette (light/dark), type scale, spacing system, logo usage

• Do a paid user interview for Atlasan | • More work on tomorrow's launch | • Work on next weeks project and the upcoming business focus :calendar:

• Schedule a call with potential newsletter sponsor

:todo_done: Onboarded 2 trials | :todo_done: Fixed a bunch of PDF and bot blocking issues | :todo_done: Client work

• Implemented a new stepper style in build | • New header style and background implemented too

• reviewing and signing contracts

:todo_done: deployed auto DM for new X followers | :todo_done: Improve onboarding flow!!!

Been away for a little while but shipping again today :) | :todo_done: Sub-agents for breaking down complex tasks | :todo_done: Cases - open a case for any incident with its own dedicated memory | :todo_done: Skills to deal with common processes including: | • performance reviews | • Onboarding | • Offboarding | • Probation reviews | • Disciplinary | • Grievance | • Maternity leave | • Long term sickness | • Redundancy

docs :nail_care:

• Implementing evals for web scraping agent

• Recorded two take of the promo video - they all suck (any referral codes to screenstudio?) | • but took some GIFs and screeshots to patch

:todo_done: New episode of Napkin Math - we interviewed Tibo Maker https://napkinmath.fm/27

:todo_done: Ship a weird experiment https://pulsefeedback.io

• worked on a bunch of different quality/UX tasks for oleno.ai | • fixed an issue with re-pushing content to the CMS via webhook API | • Scheduled 4 months (870 pieces) of demand-gen marketing content across blog, LI (personal and brand), and X (personal) for oleno.ai | • updated the changelog with all the missing entries | • Sent platform v1 email to users + prospects

• personal brand prep | • prep for interview with recruiter

:todo_done_check_tick: finished my RAG on rails presentation

:todo_done: Client project demo

:todo_done_check_tick: After a month of work, finally sent out Hyperclay’s 2nd Launch email (of 4)!

• Airbnb search and listing scrapers | • More work on evals and scraping agent accuracy

• Prepared the AdApt launch press release

:todo_done: got approved from chromestore version 0.11.4 out!

• Shipped new blog for Eldur Studio | • Redid recording but Screen studio does not support overlays ARGH I need another 30 min a least in postprod in iMovie | • Also - Claud fixed the SSL certificate for me - love

• approved 7 new submitted tools on | designtools.fyi | • Tinkered under the hood with taxonomy of tools - categorisation is hard | • Added a few words to ai consultancy site (nearfuture.works) to share with potential client

:todo_done: Lots of improvements to my time tracking app Tide

:todo_done: MAJOR UI overhauls in progress.

:todo_done: Lots of progress on announcement blog posts | :todo_done: Updating personal site to add blog section and make other improvements

:todo_done: Tibo Maker interview live https://x.com/charlierward/status/2029540916801716594?s=46

:todo_done_check_tick: Starting pilot with a new vCISO potnetial customer

• started sprint planning so I don't waste my lovable credits before next months renewal :slightly_smiling_face: | • fixed little quality stuff | • setting up a demo account for a prospect | • working on Content Import, Content Refresh, and Drift Monitoring for enterprise plan on oleno.ai

• Work on next weeks project :tv:

:todo_done: Met with a program manager for a new workshop on AI enabled coding for engineers, I will host a free class and if all goes well, I will mentor a monthly paid 2 day mastermind

• worked on personal site

:todo_done: govping live and iterating

:todo_done: Shipped a Post Queue feature for drafting and scheduling original tweets | :todo_done: Ran an SEO pass across the marketing site

• send poach.vc newsletters

My Python Flask starter kit codebase is now live! :rocket: - https://pythonstarter.co/

For anyone interested, I posted the results of my ad campaign here (spoiler: poor results)

• first draft complete for my upcoming book launch: https://benhowdle.im/first-cto-playbook

• fixed a couple bugs in drift monitoring for oleno.ai | • switched the writing chain to GPT-5.4 (released yesterday) - insane improvements in writing quality from 5.2: https://oleno.ai/blog/3-common-mistakes-that-hurt-marketing-team-efficiency | • added more AI editing functionality to make drift monitoring powerful - fix all drift issues with AI at a click of a button | • starting onboarding set-up for a customer that's activating next week

:todo_done: Got a new Internet connection over directional wireless antenna, works very well - one important step in my remote living journey

:todo_done: *Bothy* | • Prompt Library repo import flow — 3 new screens: source list with bulk import, config panel | • Designed Library Picker modal — search, category filters, multi-select with token budget | • Added library injection points across 6 settings screens — '+ From Library' buttons on 7 instruction fields with green accent bar treatment | • Added Personal Context to Profile settings + Engine/Dev section to Library Items | • Designed Board kanban — 4-column layout with session status indicators (running/approval/done) and workflow selector | • Updated feature spec §13 with 6 new subsections covering personal context, engine tie-in, and git refresh |

:todo_done: Sales calls | :todo_done: Bug fixing | :todo_done: Pdf hell

:todo_done_check_tick: updates section to website https://neilcameron.me/#updates

:todo_done: Finishing touches to @U06PVRUSPNJ analytics v1

:todo_done:Finish next week's project a bit early

• AI research | • biztemplates.carrd.co got first purchase :clap: (~$10 to me)

:todo_done: Set up marketing experiments db and plan first experiments | :todo_done: Fix bugs

I've finally replaced the white background logo on the website with a transparent one

Made an AI agent for finding promising e-commerce niches based on search volume/trends, cost per click

Started migrating a heroku/rails back end and db to cloudflare workers and supabase just to see how tricky it would be today, while decorating the house. It's now live?! What a time to be alive.

• SEO improvement to blog and site. Learning: it's nice when a platform takes care of this shit for you | • Re-recorded my video (yay!) but encountered a bug in exporting to MP4 that is blocking all my promo stream of tasks :sob: | • watched Openclaw demo recording - really made we want to do this but a little over my head. Are there any startups that abstract the CLI implementation and hosting while keeping this thing runnin 24h? Why do you say this can be done with Claude Code? | • Nice connection with @U06UADACXBP fellow bay area clubber :women-with-bunny-ears-partying:

:todo_done: Single project page for Tide | :todo_done: Client work designs

:todo_done_check_tick: Worked on optimizing serving static sites by improving NGINX reverse cache with try_files

:todo_done:Free tweet thread generator tool. Almost there!

:todo_done: Accountably | • Fixed Apple notarisation — nested Sparkle binaries need individual signing | • Created macOS Signing &amp; Notarisation Playbook for all projects | :todo_done: Bothy | • Designed 8 new screens in Paper (Library Picker, Board kanban, Import flow, Settings) | • Added code signing + notarisation to CLI release workflow | :todo_done: Inf | • Made CI runner configurable via RUNNER_LABELS across 14 workflows in 7 repos

• did a bunch of technical SEO work for oleno.ai - issues with SSG on Lovable creating orphaned links in my sitemap | • Did analysis on 5.2 performance vs 5.4 performance for all live websites, sent an email to users showing the quality changes

:todo_done: Fixes to server setup and deployment scripts for client project

• finish next weeks project :onion:

:todo_done: Weekends are for making fun things

Today I shipped: | • Some minor marketing tweaks to the website | • A voluntary attendee form that will be sent out to conference ticket purchasers to collect a bit of data to help with marketing

Built an mcp server for my silly little birthday reminder app - get your :lobster: to remind you of your mum's birthday! Try it: `npx bub-mcp`

:todo_done: building out CLI and MCP for my X app. Schedule Posts, follow/unfollow people

• Wake up to my project being on the front page of hacker news. The API ran out of credits, so I had to frantically buy more. At least my in-browser fallback worked. :woozy_face: If you were wondering how much traffic you get on the front page of hacker news. Not as good as it used to be. But it _is_ the weekend. https://pulsefeedback.io/ | • Finalize the next two projects to get ahead.

• more technical SEO fixes to SSG and other issues on oleno.ai - the content is really strong, don't want it to be ruined by bad technical SEO :slightly_smiling_face: | • made tweaks to screenshot matching in the content chain | • bunch of little quality improvements across all 5 demand-gen studios | • Fixed gaps in 4 new features that I created yesterday | • Implemented an AI-sidebar chat so users can quickly update governance studios when they're reviewing/editing their content.

:todo_done: Lowdown | • Locked design system — 41 components catalogued | • Briefing Page conformed to spec — What's Uncertain, Causal Connections, Perspectives, Sources, and Understand cards all wired | • Article page layout

smooth oAuth flow for my mcp so you can add Bub's mcp in claude.ai, chatgpt etc. (add https://mcp.bub.club/mcp to get started)

:todo_done_check_tick: Improved my local LLM marketing assistant

:todo_done: Improved deployment scripts across all my client projects and own products

Kind of a nasty vibe coded homepage right now but managed to update bub.club to reflect what the tool now does https://bub.club/