Posts tagged “building-in-public”

Everything Important I Built This Year Started Away From My Desk

A year in review, measured in trips, staycations, and one email read on vacation

VoiceCommit started on a hiking trail. BlackOps features get kicked off from hotel rooms. Spotter's biggest weekend began with an email read on vacation. One year of the same pattern, with receipts.

A stranger took my beta app to the gym and found the bug I couldn't

Three sessions on university WiFi did what weeks of my own testing didn't

My first outside beta tester took Hey Spotter to a university gym and lost his workout history to flaky WiFi. Here's the bug, the offline queue that fixed it, and the airplane mode test that proved it.

How I Use BlackOps to Reply on X Without the AI Slop

I run each Hunt as a live search on X, the extension scores the results and drafts only when something I actually wrote answers the tweet, and it tells me no the rest of the time. I send every one myself.

Everyone says reply to twenty tweets a day. BlackOps flags the three or four conversations where I actually have an answer, drafts from what I've written, and tells me no the rest of the time. Real replies, not AI slop.

Replace Yourself Before Someone Else Does

If you're not slowly replacing yourself with AI agents in your own workflow, you're not doing it right.

The replacement conversation is framed as something that happens to you. Flip it. Here's what I've automated in my own workflow, the receipts, and the playbook.

I Predicted One Senior Dev and an Army of Agents. Tonight It Happened.

Last year I predicted the future dev team: one senior engineer and an army of AI agents. Tonight, from a phone at Epcot, I watched 10 AI agents run a standup, find production bugs, debate priorities, deploy fixes, and verify them. The prediction is no longer a prediction.

The Industry Just Validated What I've Been Building All Year

A 20-year product leader described the AI capability overhang. Every theme matched systems I'd already shipped. This is what it looks like from inside.

A great video just described the AI development revolution happening right now. I've been writing about it — and building it — for months. Here are the receipts.

Building a Customer Radar with OpenClaw

Instead of trying to get better at marketing, I built a system to notice patterns in real conversations. Here's how I used OpenClaw to replace guessing with observation.

My First Week with OpenClaw: From Skeptic to Believer

I spent 10 days building an AI workforce. Then Anthropic made my tool change its name. This is the real story — crashes, renames, and shipping anyway.