Walkthroughs, setup guides, and what we’re changing in the product.
Why I put it up, how a bit of vibe coding turned into a completely different morning routine, and what six months of building actually looks like.
A short tour of the whole app: adding feeds, ordering the digest, and the random article trick that keeps Paul Graham essays landing on my Kindle.
This week my goal is for my Kindle to be at the top of my phone's screen time report. On building tools for yourself instead of for a market.
The app had grown to 200 users without a plan, and it showed. Two weeks rebuilding it from scratch, around simplifying and explaining.
I spent three months building a post discovery algorithm. Nobody used it, and it never answered the question people were actually asking. So I deleted it.
I ignored the project for a month and expected it to be quietly dying. The active users had gone up instead.
Social media killed the discovery of good writing, because the incentives aren't there. Subscribing to a feed is deciding for yourself what goes in it.