The Build Log
What building with AI actually looks like, one day at a time.
Daily notes from running software businesses with Claude Code: an electrical calculator site, a course, and the automation behind both. What worked, what broke, and the real numbers. Posted here and on LinkedIn.
- A subscriber group sat empty for weeks, and nothing said so progress update
- What twelve to seventeen hours a week actually runs metrics snapshot
- An absent cookie used to mean two different things. That was the whole bug. lesson learned
- One filming session, ten posts. Here is how the second through tenth get made. how i did it
- The most expensive part of this was never money. story
- What if writing was never the job? question
- Four sites, four different definitions of finished. Now there's one checklist. before after
- This blog went quiet for five days. Here's the actual reason. opinion
- One vote per member per month, and how I made it hold how i did it
- The paid community moved off someone else's server progress update
- A stale doc almost outlived what it described lesson learned
- TikTok never gets its own decision how i did it
- I keep a written list of exactly how this could all go wrong opinion
- I never let the AI that wrote the code review the code lesson learned
- Your content list is probably a queue. It should be a menu. opinion
- My rate limiter had failed silently three times before I tested the right thing lesson learned
- I hit 205 of a 250 call daily API cap and never saw it coming lesson learned
- The five things every page on my sites ships now how i did it
- One dead business, three products before after
- The back office worked. The business did not. how i did it
- I killed a business this week lesson learned
- This post published itself question
- The Sunday meal planning argument is gone before after
- Build tools, not content opinion
- Never let an AI guess a safety calculation lesson learned
- The unglamorous numbers, month two metrics snapshot
- A calculator ships itself every Monday at 7am how i did it
- I mostly stopped writing code this year story