The Journey
Field reports from building with AI in public. What's working, what isn't, and what it cost me. Open numbers, the failures before the wins.
Subscribe via RSSPhase 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 ...
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem Date: January 3, 2026 --- The Bug That Masked Another Bug Today we fixed two critical...
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 Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money
No News is Good News: 34 Hours of Trading Bot Discipline December 30, 2025 | Build in Public Update --- The Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money Over the pas...
I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works.
I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works. TL;DR: BOS-AI gives you 30 specialized AI agents that handle business strategy, operation...
Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality
Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality December 29, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Multi-Agent Architecture · Build in Public --- The Jo...
Redesigning Trading Bot From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture
Redesigning Trader-7: From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture December 25, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Architecture · Build in Public --- The Landscape H...
AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More
AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More December 19, 2025 When we launched AImpactScanner, we had a problem we couldn't solve:...
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 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity
The 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity Date: December 19, 2025 Author: Jamie Watters --- The Myth of Multitasking Humans can't mult...
Building a Smarter Trading System
Building a Smarter Trading System: Planning the v5.0 Multi-Regime Architecture Date: December 17, 2025 Category: Architecture Planning Reading Time: 8 minute...
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 ...