Skip to main content
Jamie Watters

Open Source

Building in the open: what I am releasing and why.

All topicsAIAI SearchBuildingOpen SourceTradingThinkingBusiness
TypeEssayBuild LogVideo
On a Deep Space navy background, a gold-edged card labelled ENCRYPTED REGISTER lists accounts, assets, liabilities and instructions, standing solid in front of three faint dashed cards labelled a service, a vault app and a startup that are fading away. Kicker: DIGITAL ESTATE. Headline: The map is a file. It outlasts every company that might have owned it.
Essay

A friend said it was a business. I decided it was not, and built it anyway.

July 19, 2026
3 min read

A friend said it should be a business. I spent forty years around operations and resilience, so I assessed it honestly, decided it was not, and built it anyway, for free. Here is the reasoning, and why the map of your estate should be a file no company owns.

Open SourceBusiness
Read More