First: It’s a MCP/cli you can hook up to Claude code and slack, it integrates with GitHub.

the harness lets you record decision as contextual info you can pull up whenever your start a planning session.

It also makes sure your decisions don’t conflict with each other.

I find myself talking through a decision I made months ago with it, update it with any new decisions and it just figures out how to merge everything.

No extra workflow outside of this.

Yes but very cautiously and always with human in the loop. AI is great at cutting away ops noise (false alerts), OK at root cause analysis / debugging and terrible at actually prioritizing and fixing the thing.

It's not a solved a problem and companies like Rootly's actively speaking in this area. I'd read their blog and see what's the latest in the field.

For the next five years, I got an email every single day from different people.

Every email came with a story, each story was a window into the lives of the writer. I loved reading every single one of them.

The emails came to an abrupt end in 2018, and ever since then I've been looking for something similar on the internet.

Recently I've decided to bring it back to the community of indie hacker / makers / startup founders / investors we have on this platform.

There's something about emails that's personable, it speaks to you differently than a tweet or a blog post.

I want to replicate the same feeling I had reading these emails and I want to help people make real connections in a different yet familiar way.

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otherwise, consider it lost + name and shame

Stat seems like only 15(?) authors on substack makes $1,000/m or more. Which is wild.

But through this process I've

- gained an engaging audience on X - multiple inbound leads that turned into long term collabs - a discord community of my best readers where we meet once a week

Worth the investment

Rarely makes good products.

Thank you.

So just to clarify I didn't have an audience when I wrote the book. I took the time and told people my story over the past 6 months, and while I did that - sold books.

I think good storytellers should be able to build an audience regardless of the format - highly recommend any aspiring author to try it.

No paper.

I write in notion, export to markdown, then compile to pdf / Epub with pandoc

It's super easy, highly recommend

Send me an email, I'll share you the first chapter

I basically gave bits and pieces of each chapter away as content - then funneled interested readers into DMs and profile visits with link to my ebook.

I've marketed and sold 400+ copies of it at $19 so far and about to raise the price to $39, near 100% margin minus stripe fees.

What stops authors doing what I did? Plenty of people want to read, to blame lack of readership is just completely wrong.

I got hired to migrate a client's existing excel spreadsheet internal tool over to a customized React SPA.

This is the first contract where I'm not rushing around every sprint trying to piece together half baked features and pushing them out the door. While not strictly waterfall (more kanban) I'm enjoying the heck out of the process either way:

• Everything is rigorously tested and documented.

• Nothing gets released until all the requirements are met. No sprints.

• We celebrate every release.

• Clients give feedback, we spend time talking about it internally, and then do proposal, design and then developers come up with architecture docs and we talk about it some more.

As a 34 year old dev I'm loving this.

Am I just getting old?

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- tally.so forms, can embed anywhere

- cloud function (gcp)

- sendgrid (adds to contact list)

Unless you're getting hundreds of contacts a day this setup is basically free.

Demo:

https://500k.agency/mba-interest

Source

https://github.com/500k-agency/functions/blob/master/functio...