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The Devlog

Five real, live projects. Not a highlight reel — the actual decisions, the dead ends, the bugs that made it to production, and an honest guess at how long things really take. Updated as the work happens.

How this is put together: each project's devlog below was reconstructed from real working sessions — file timestamps, commit history, and the actual back-and-forth that built the thing — not written after the fact from memory. Dates are approximate where the source material was approximate; that's noted inline rather than smoothed over. Anything that would expose another person's private information, an active security detail, or an unconfirmed conversation with a third party has been generalized or left out — everything else is as-is, including the parts that didn't go well.

The five projects

Pick one to read the full history, or jump around — each stands on its own.

DoorOps
Live · doorops.io

DoorOps

An AI property-ops platform, dogfooded the whole way on a real 7-building, 22-unit Phoenix rental portfolio. Compliance-first leasing AI, a self-classifying rent ledger, and an autonomous ops agent that asks before it acts.

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Lumenor
In App Review · getlumenor.com

Lumenor

A Socratic AI tutor that teaches by questioning instead of answering, with a visual skill map, voice, and a video-avatar tutor. First iOS submission was rejected on three counts — the fix is in progress.

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Tiglit
Live · tiglit.com

Tiglit

Six research-backed toddler-parenting tools, a native iOS app, and a rebrand forced by an Apple trademark rejection — from "Real Tamagotchi" to a tiger cub named Tiglit.

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SoloStack
Live · solo-stack.ai

SoloStack

This site. An AI-tools content site started from one question — "can I make passive income with AI?" — now an 18-post publishing machine plus a real $14 digital product on Gumroad.

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I Need Wisdom
Building · ineedwisdom.org

I Need Wisdom

A podcast project asking people 80 and older what they've learned, before it's too late to ask — started from a letter PJ's father wrote him in 2011. No guest interviewed yet; a real, growing library of free wisdom already live.

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The honest pattern across all five: almost none of the hardest problems were the product idea itself — they were deployment infrastructure, sync bugs between the editing tool and what actually goes live, and auth/OAuth configuration that only breaks once real users show up. Every project has at least one incident where something shipped broken and got caught by actually using the product, not by reading the code. That's the real throughline of building alone with AI: the ideas come fast, the plumbing is what costs the time.