Agency in a box
Idea for 2025: agency in a box. Time tracking, chat, git and docs, self-hosted, with AI doing the boring bits. Agencies that don't make AI their own thing, in their tools, their data and how they …
Products (7 posts)
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Building a product on someone else's API
Notebud was my 2016 side project: OneNote as a planner, with tasks from your to-do manager written onto each day's page, and later two-way sync of tags and tasks. It ran on the OneNote API. The …
Choosing an audience before building anything
In 2014 I wanted to build a product and didn't know who for. This is the exercise I worked through, from Justin Jackson's writing on finding an audience. Credit to him; the list is mine. 1. List every …
All in
Decided to go all in and bootstrap my first product. Said it on the podcast, so now I have to.
Said it out loud
First time I've said my product idea out loud to strangers. Desktop app half written, taught myself C# for it. Still not sure the pain isn't just mine. (Choosing an audience came later.)
Not another time tracker
"Isn't it just another time tracker?" No. A tracker tells you what you did so you can bill it. This tells you what you chose to spend your hours on.
Time is a budget
Idea for a time tracker where the timer never stops and time is a budget, not a log. Budgets are goals, time spent is spending. Make the app I want to use.