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Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem

January 3, 2026
3 min read

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...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Debugging#Claude Code
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The SaaS Boilerplate Killer

December 31, 2025
8 min read

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...

#Agent-11#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code#SaaS Boilerplate#Claude Skills
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The Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money

December 30, 2025
5 min read

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...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#PaperTrading
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I Built a 30-Agent AI Team to Run My Business. Here's How It Works.

December 30, 2025
6 min read

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...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Multi-tasking#Claude Code#IndieHacker
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Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality

December 29, 2025
10 min read

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...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Agent-11#BuildInPublic#Solopreneur#ClaudeCode
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Redesigning Trading Bot From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture

December 27, 2025
6 min read

Redesigning Trader-7: From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture December 25, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Architecture · Build in Public --- The Landscape H...

#Crypto#Trading#LLM Trading
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AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More

December 19, 2025
5 min read

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:...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#AI Search#Claude Code#SEO
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The Uncomfortable Truth About llms.txt Generators (And Why Most Are Lying to You)

December 19, 2025
6 min read

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...

#LLMs.txt#Solo Market#SaaS Market#SaaS Launch#solopreneur
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The 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity

December 19, 2025
6 min read

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...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#multi-tasking#Claude Code
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Building a Smarter Trading System

December 19, 2025
7 min read

Building a Smarter Trading System: Planning the v5.0 Multi-Regime Architecture Date: December 17, 2025 Category: Architecture Planning Reading Time: 8 minute...

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The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything

December 16, 2025
3 min read

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 ...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Crypto Bot#AlgoTrading
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The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them)

December 14, 2025
4 min read

The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them) December 13, 2025 --- For three days, my AI trading system was generating excellent trade setu...

#Crypto#Agent#tradingbot#algotrading
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From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How I'm Building my Trading Bot's Entry Timing System

December 13, 2025
8 min read

From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How We're Building Trader-7's Entry Timing System Date: December 13, 2025 Author: Jamie Watters Series: Buildin...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#TradingBot
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Signups and Marketing Physics

December 13, 2025
4 min read

I Rewrote My Signup Page Today. No Idea If It'll Work. I spent two hours today rebuilding my signup page based on a framework I read about 20 years back. It ...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Marketing Physics#Tiers#Pricing#llms.txt
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Your Best Feature Is Worthless If Nobody Knows About It

December 10, 2025
4 min read

Your Best Feature Is Worthless If Nobody Knows About It How I almost shipped a major competitive advantage that was completely invisible to customers --- I s...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Rob Fitzpatrick#Doug Hall#Marketing Physics#LLMS.TXT
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Crypto Bot - Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day)

December 10, 2025
4 min read

Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day) December 9, 2025 My trading bot ran for 14 hours yesterday. It lost $100 and taught me two lesso...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics
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If Google can't find you optimizing for AI Search is the wrong problem to solve

December 10, 2025
4 min read

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...

#Build in Public#AI Search Optimization#SEO#AIMPACTSCANNER#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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The $0.12 Crypto Trading Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive)

December 9, 2025
4 min read

The $0.12 Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive) Day 20 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- Here's a question e...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics
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Implementing the insights from Alpha Arena 1.5 and Grok 4.2's strategies

December 9, 2025
3 min read

Stop Optimizing For Win Rate (What I Implemented After Watching AI Win With 34.6% Accuracy) Day 19 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public ...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#Grok4.2#Alpha Arena
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Alpha Arena - A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing.

December 7, 2025
5 min read

A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing. What happens when you let AI models trade against each other for 2 weeks? T...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#Grok4.2#Trading Bot
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I Built a Calculator to See What 0.2% Daily Returns Look Like Over 10 Years (The Numbers Are Insane)

December 7, 2025
4 min read

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...

#Build in Public#Calculators#Compound Growth#Free Calculator#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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I Thought My Crypto Agent Lost Money Overnight. Then I Found the Bug?

December 7, 2025
3 min read

My AI Trader Ran All Night While I Slept (Here's What Happened) Day 19 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- I woke up at 8am to chec...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#BuildinPublic#TradingBot
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My Build In Public Site - 97% quicker using agent-11 vs Claude's estimates

December 6, 2025
4 min read

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 ...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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Crypto Trading Agent - upgrade to reasoning model

December 6, 2025
4 min read

When Your AI Trader Argues With Itself (And You Have to Pick a Winner) Day 18 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- Today I learned s...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Claude Code#Chain of Thought
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Crypto Trading Agent - Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned.

December 6, 2025
4 min read

I Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned About Compound Momentum. December 5, 2025 - Building Trader-7 in Public --- Yesterday, I woke up with ...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#BuildInPublic#ClaudeCode
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My Build In Public Site - Rebuilding (And What Most Founders Get Wrong About Content)

December 6, 2025
6 min read

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...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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Crypto Trading Agent - How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter

December 6, 2025
3 min read

How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter December 4, 2025 - Building Trader-7 in Public --- Yesterday, my AI-powered crypto trading bot lo...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics
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Agent-11 Progress - Dec 5th

December 6, 2025
3 min read

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#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code
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Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Trading Progressing

December 4, 2025
5 min read

Building an AI Trading Bot: When Your Code Actually Makes Money December 3, 2025 There's something surreal about watching code you wrote at 8am generate $25 ...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#Testing
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Crypto Trading Agent - Todays open positions

December 3, 2025
1 min read

Paper Testing Positions Open Positions (All Profitable) | Asset | Entry | Current | Unrealized | |--------|---------|---------|------------| | SOL #...

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Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Testing

December 2, 2025
4 min read

When Your Bot Opens Two BTC Longs and You Learn to Love It TL;DR: Deployed Sprint 16 fixes to Trader-7 with better dashboard metrics and fee warnings. Disc...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics#Paper Trading#BTC#ETH#SOL#XRP
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Agent-11 Progress - Added report to generate social media posts

December 1, 2025
2 min read

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...

#Agent-11#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code#Social Media Posts
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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - Nov 30th

December 1, 2025
4 min read

Wrestling with Connections and Consistency: Fixing Trader-7’s Critical Bugs TL;DR: Spent the day squashing three nasty bugs that were tripping up Trader-7’s ...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#build-in-public
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LLM Powered SaaS Growth Engine - New Project

December 1, 2025
3 min read

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...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Automated SaaS Growth#Sales#Marketing
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Evolve -7 Genius insight via multi-model LLM and evolutionary alogrithms - Progress - 30 Nov 2025

December 1, 2025
5 min read

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...

#Build in Public#evolve-7#multi-model LLM#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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My Build In Public Site - JamieWatters.work - Progress - 30 Nov 2025

November 30, 2025
4 min read

From Hardcoded to Heartfelt: Transforming Project Metrics for Authenticity TL;DR Today, I embarked on a journey to replace generic hardcoded metrics in my po...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Metrics
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AI Impact Scanner - Analyze sites AI search readiness tool - Progress 29 Nov 2025

November 30, 2025
3 min read

Unlocking SEO Magic with llms.txt — Day 29 of AImpactScanner MVP > TL;DR: Launched the first sprint of llms.txt integration, letting Growth and Scale users g...

#AI Search Optimization#SEO#Build-in-public#Saas
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LLMS.TXT File Generator - Progress - 29 Nov 2025

November 30, 2025
3 min read

From SaaS to API Powerhouse 🚀 – Day 45 of LLM.txt Mastery > TL;DR: Turned LLM.txt Mastery into a fully API-callable platform, unlocking new B2B possibilitie...

#Build in Public#SEO#LLMS.TXT#API
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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 29 Nov 2025

November 29, 2025
4 min read

Wrestling with Fees: Making Trader-7 Transparent and Trustworthy TL;DR: Sprint 12 was all about nailing fee transparency in Trader-7. We added detailed fee...

#Crypto#Agent#LLM Trading#AI Trading
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Agent-11 Progress - 29 Nov 2025

November 29, 2025
3 min read

Locking It Down: Making Persistence Protocols Unbreakable – Day 29 of AGENT-11 > TL;DR: Today I sealed the cracks in AGENT-11’s file persistence during coord...

#Agent-11#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code#File Persistance
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Agent-11 Progress - 28 Nov

November 28, 2025
3 min read

Getting Lean and Smart with AGENT-11: Sprints 4 & 5 Set the Stage - Day 28 > TL;DR: Made AGENT-11 smarter with Opus 4.5 and leaner by fixing token bloat—plus...

#Agent-11#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code#Token Optimization#Opus 4.5 Orchestration
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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 28 Nov 2025

November 28, 2025
3 min read

Breaking Through the Noise: Trading Smarter in Weak Trends – Day 28 of Trader-7 Automated Trading System > TL;DR: Today, I cracked the code on trading during...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Spot vs Perpetauls
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Evolve-7 Multi LMM Evolutionary app - Nov 27 2025

November 28, 2025
6 min read

Cracking the Authentication Code & Building True Multi-Model AI Debate – Day 27 of Evolve-7 > TL;DR: Squashed critical auth bugs blocking user onboarding, th...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Insight generation#idea generator#analytics
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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 27 Nov 2025

November 27, 2025
4 min read

Smarter Trades: How I Taught Trader-7 to Pick the Best Instruments TL;DR: Today I wrapped up a big feature to make Trader-7’s instrument selection truly st...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Trading Strategies
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My Build In Public Site - JamieWatters.work - Progress - 26 Nov 2026

November 26, 2025
4 min read

From Plain Text to Polished Posts: A Day of Debugging and Development 🎨 TL;DR Today was a rollercoaster ride through the world of web development as I tackl...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer#Saas#Claude Code
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Agent-11 - The Coding Agent - Progress - 26 Nov 2025

November 26, 2025
3 min read

Turning Progress into Stories: AI-Powered Blog Magic for AGENT-11 - Day 38 > TL;DR: I unleashed a new AI feature that turns dry progress logs into engaging b...

#Agent-11#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code#Build-in-public
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ISO Tracker - Interstellar Object Tracking - Progress: 26 Nov 2025

November 26, 2025
3 min read

Unlocking Seamless Payments: Stripe Checkout Comes Alive – Day 18 of ISO Tracker > TL;DR: Today, I built a smooth, secure checkout flow that lets users subsc...

#Build-in-public#ISO Tracker#Interstellar Objects#3I-Atlas#Tiers#Pricing#Stripe#Overt Benefit#Dramatic Difference#Marketing Physics#Doug Hall
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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress 26th Nov 2025

November 26, 2025
4 min read

From Chaos to Control: Sprint 7 Unlocks Hybrid Trading Power - Day 26 of Trader-7 Automated Trading System > TL;DR: After wrestling with tricky bugs and buil...

#Build-in-public#Crypto#Agent#LLM Trading#Coinbase Perpetuals
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ISO Tracker - Interstellar Tracking Application Progress - 24 Nov 2025

November 25, 2025
2 min read

Progress Report - November 24, 2025 Project: ISO Tracker ✅ Completed - Fixed critical email signup functionality for 3i-atlas.live landing page - Resolved RL...

#ISO Tracker#ISO#Interstellar Object#Pricing#Tiers#3I/Atlas#Email Signups
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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 24 Nov 2025

November 25, 2025
3 min read

Progress Report - November 24, 2025 Project: Trader-7 Automated Trading System ✅ Completed - Multi-Exchange Price Aggregation System Deployed - Implemented 5...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Perpetuals
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Personal Build In Public Site - Update - JamieWatters.work - 23rd Nov 2025

November 25, 2025
3 min read

Build Update - November 19, 2025 🐛 Fixed: Blog Posts Finally Showing Real Content Shipped a critical fix today that had me scratching my head. Every blog po...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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ISO Tracker - Interstellar Tracking Application - Progress 23 Nov 2025

November 23, 2025
2 min read

Progress Report - November 23, 2025 Project: ISO Tracker ✅ Completed Sprint 11: Community Arguments & Debate System - Built arguments and argumentvotes datab...

#ISO Tracker#ISO#Interstellar Object#Build-in-public
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Crypto Trading Agent - 23 Nov 2025 Update

November 23, 2025
2 min read

Progress Report - November 23, 2025 Project: Trader-7 ✅ Completed - Sprint 5: Reporting Panel shipped - Full reporting dashboard with 8 KPIs, equity curve, d...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Reporting#Build-in-public
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Interstellar Tracking App Developments - Progress - 22nd Nov 2025

November 23, 2025
3 min read

Progress Report - November 22, 2025 Project: ISO Tracker ✅ Completed - Sprint 10: The Loeb Scale - Anomaly Assessment Engine - Complete implementation of sci...

#Build in public#interstellar objects#3I-Atlas#LOEB Scale
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Crypto Trading App

November 22, 2025
3 min read

Progress Report - November 22, 2025 Project: Trader-7 (LLM-Powered Trading System) Completed - Sprint 3 Complete: Database & Position Sizing Enhancements -...

#Crypto#trading#agent
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My Build In Public Site - JamieWatters.work - Progress

November 20, 2025
3 min read

Build Update - November 19, 2025 🐛 Fixed: Blog Posts Finally Showing Real Content Shipped a critical fix today that had me scratching my head. Every blog po...

#Build in Public#Jamie Watters#Soloprenuer
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Solo Market Progress

November 20, 2025
6 min read

🚀 SoloMarket Week 2: Building the Launch Platform What We Shipped This Week Week 2 was all about building the core launch platform - the features that let m...

#Solo Market#SaaS Market#SaaS Launch#solopreneur
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ISO Tracker - Interstellar Tracking Application Progress

November 20, 2025
4 min read

Progress Report - November 19, 2025 Project: ISO Tracker ✅ Completed - Sprint 7 Complete: NASA Horizons API Integration & Orbital Visualization - Fully integ...

#ISO Tracker#ISI#Interstellar Object
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Agent-11 Progress

November 20, 2025
3 min read

Progress Report - November 19, 2025 Project: AGENT-11 ✅ Completed - Fixed Critical File Persistence Bug - Discovered and resolved critical documentation/impl...

#Agent-11#Solopreneur#Development#Claude Code
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Crypto Trading Agent

November 20, 2025
2 min read

Build Update - November 19, 2025 Trader-7: Analytics Dashboard Complete ✅ Shipped three major features today to help evaluate the AI trading system's decisio...

#Crypto#Agent#Progress#Analytics
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Crypto Trading App Progress

November 18, 2025
1 min read

Paper test started Nov 16th, steady progress.

#Crypto#Trading#LLM Trading
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Daily Update: November 18, 2025

November 18, 2025
5 min read

Completed 276 tasks across 5 projects. Building in public, one commit at a time.

#daily-update#build-in-public
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Daily Update: November 15, 2025

November 15, 2025
1 min read

Daily progress update for my build-in-public projects.

#daily-update#build-in-public
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Daily Update: November 11, 2025

November 12, 2025
7 min read

Completed 188 tasks across 2 projects. Building in public, one commit at a time.

#daily-update#build-in-public
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Week 1: Building JamieWatters.work

November 10, 2025
1 min read

The journey of building a personal brand website begins. Why I'm building in public and what I hope to achieve by documenting this journey to billion-dollar solopreneur.

#build-in-public#web-development#solopreneur
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Choosing the Right Tech Stack for Solo Founders in 2025

October 7, 2025
1 min read

Why I chose Next.js, Neon, and Netlify for my personal brand website. A practical guide to making technology decisions as a solo founder.

#tech-stack#nextjs#architecture
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Using AI Agents to 10x Your Development Workflow

October 6, 2025
6 min read

How I use AGENT-11 to orchestrate development with specialized AI agents. A practical guide to AI-assisted development in 2025.

#ai#productivity#agent-11#development
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