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Notes on building with AI and shipping on my own. Mostly the kind I wish I’d read earlier.
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I'm not switching, and it isn't loyalty
OpenAI shipped Astra and people rate it above Fable. I read that, felt nothing, and went back to work. Not because the new one is worse, and not because my setup is the best one. Because I finally have a way to answer the question, and it says no.
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- My Claude Code setup, in detail (not a template)
- I named my puzzle game after a genre. The genre was trademarked.
- Don't chase tools before you know how you work
- I can build almost anything now, which is the problem
- I found my app on the App Store before I built it
- I'm still a vibe coder. I just stopped vibing alone
- How I pass App Store review on the first try
- I shipped more this winter than ever. My body kept the receipts
- I asked an AI for a thousand pictures. Checking them was the work
- Fable, Opus, Sonnet, or Haiku? I ran them head to head
- Don't copy this. Build your own.
- What building and burying things taught me
- What a solo SaaS actually costs to run per month
- Apple's reviewer is your AI app's first jailbreaker