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Build what you keep wishing existed.

Free6 tools shipped since 2019 · 4 still running · 2 retired in public · 1 person

I write software for one user — me — then sell it to the people who turn out to have the same complaint.

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The two I finished

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Steward
The week that plans itself, from the week you actually had.
- In build
- private beta, 40 seats, 31 taken
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Offcut
One recording in. Nine things worth posting out.
- Shipped
- public, 286 people, 8 hours of video a month

Shorts, in published order

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I deleted 91 tasks and shipped more that week
Ninety-one open items, none of them scheduled. The delete rule that replaced my backlog.
- Short
- 0:52
- Sep 2026
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I stopped planning my week. I let last week plan it.
Sunday planning is a guess made by whichever version of you had a good weekend.
- Short
- 1:08
- Sep 2026
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Why my habit tracker counts weeks, not days
A daily streak breaks once and takes a year of consistency with it. Three-in-seven cannot.
- Short
- 0:41
- Aug 2026

Builds, uncut

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38 minutes: building the planner that reads my calendar
One sitting, one feature, unedited — including eleven minutes lost to a bug that was my own test fixture.
- Video
- 38:12
- Aug 2026
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Every way an LLM got my week wrong, and the six rules that fixed it
Thirty days of an agent running my calendar, read off the failure log in order.
- Video
- 24:06
- Jul 2026
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One recording, nine posts: the Offcut pipeline end to end
The real pipeline that cut every short on this site, rejects included.
- Video
- 16:47
- Jun 2026

Writing — no video attached

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Enthusiasm survives any idea for a week. Resentment repeats, on a schedule, with timestamps.
Resentment is a spec
- Writing
- 5 min read
- Jul 2026
The publishing arithmetic I took from Daniel Priestley, and the part nobody quotes: what running it costs.
Seven hours, eleven touchpoints, four places
- Writing
- 6 min read
- May 2026
Nothing here gets a page until it has survived ninety days of my own week. Here is what breaks on day sixty.
The demo that lies
- Writing
- 7 min read
- Apr 2026

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