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Phase 4 Complete: ModelOptix Now Has a Business Model
Phase 4 Complete: ModelOptix Now Has a Business Model Build in Public Update - January 22, 2026 --- The Hook: Are You Paying 10x More Than You Should for AI?...
Phase 3 Complete: The Recommendation Engine Is Live
Phase 3 Complete: The Recommendation Engine Is Live The core value is here. ModelOptix now delivers personalized AI model recommendations that save you money...
I Built a Waitlist Landing Page for PlebTest (For Founders Who Hate Cold Calls)
#Founders Who Hate Cold Calls (Including Me) How PlebTest helps you validate your startup idea without the awkward phone calls --- I've been there. You have ...
ModelOptix: Full Model Catalog + Portfolio Management Live
Phase 2 Complete: Full Model Catalog + Portfolio Management Live Building in public with ModelOptix - Day 5 update. The product is taking shape fast. --- TL;...
ModelOptix Phase 1 Complete: From Zero to Full-Stack MVP in 48 Hours
Phase 1 Complete: From Zero to Full-Stack MVP in 48 Hours Building in public with ModelOptix - the independent AI model advisor that helps you stop overpayin...
Introducing PlebTest: Kill Bad Ideas Before They Kill Your Runway
Introducing PlebTest: Kill Bad Ideas Before They Kill Your Runway January 18, 2026 --- I'm building PlebTest, and I want to tell you why. The Problem Nobody ...
Introducing ModelOptix: The Independent AI Model Advisor
Introducing ModelOptix: The Independent AI Model Advisor Date: January 18, 2026 Author: Jamie Watters Category: Product Announcement Read Time: 5 minutes ---...
The CLAUDE.md Paradox: When Your AI Framework Needs to Protect User Preferences
The CLAUDE.md Paradox: When Your AI Framework Needs to Protect User Preferences How we spent a day working ON BOS-AI instead of IN it - and why that matters ...
The SaaS Boilerplate Killer
The SaaS Boilerplate Killer: How Sprint 9 Changed Everything Why I Almost Built the Wrong Thing I was going to build a SaaS boilerplate. You know the type—au...
The Uncomfortable Truth About llms.txt Generators (And Why Most Are Lying to You)
The Uncomfortable Truth About llms.txt Generators (And Why Most Are Lying to You) December 19, 2025 | By Jamie Watters --- I spent the last month testing eve...
The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything
The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything December 15, 2025 Sometimes the most frustrating bugs are the ones that seem obvious in ...
If Google can't find you optimizing for AI Search is the wrong problem to solve
You Can't Win the AI Race If Google Can't Even Find You Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody's talking about in the AI search optimization space: Most websi...
I Built a Calculator to See What 0.2% Daily Returns Look Like Over 10 Years (The Numbers Are Insane)
I Built a Calculator to See What 0.2% Daily Returns Look Like Over 10 Years (The Numbers Are Insane) TL;DR: My crypto trading bot is averaging small daily ga...
My Build In Public Site - 97% quicker using agent-11 vs Claude's estimates
From 30 Hours to 1 Hour: The Power of AGENT-11 Automation In the fast-paced world of software development, every second counts. Imagine accomplishing a task ...
My Build In Public Site - Rebuilding (And What Most Founders Get Wrong About Content)
Why I'm Rebuilding My "Build in Public" Site (And What Most Founders Get Wrong About Content) TL;DR I just finished testing my personal site and realized som...
Agent-11 Progress - Dec 5th
Day 47: Why Advisory Protocols Always Fail Under Pressure December 5, 2025 Today I shipped Sprint 8 of AGENT-11, and it tackles a problem that's been frustra...
Agent-11 Progress - Added report to generate social media posts
Day 43: Shipping Social Media Automation for Build-in-Public December 1, 2025 Today I completed Sprint 7 of AGENT-11, and it's one of those features that wil...
LLM Powered SaaS Growth Engine - New Project
From Zero to Autonomous: Building the ASMGE Growth Engine in a Day 🚀 - Day 1 of AI Search Mastery Growth Engine (ASMGE) > TL;DR: Today I turned a mountain o...
Evolve -7 Genius insight via multi-model LLM and evolutionary alogrithms - Progress - 30 Nov 2025
One API Key to Rule Them All: Unifying 300+ AI Models – Day 30 of Evolve-7 > TL;DR: Replaced 6 separate AI provider API keys with a single OpenRouter integra...