Hey all 👋 Sharing something I've been building: Astrid, a project assistant that lives entirely in plain files you own — no database, no SaaS, no account. The problem it tackles: most of what running projects involves is scattered — a commitment made in a hallway, a decision buried in an email thread, a risk everyone knows about but nobody wrote down, a deadline whose first witness is the customer. Astrid turns that scatter into a small set of durable JSON "cards" that a Claude project (plus a few tiny scripts) read. It reads your cards before it says anything, tells you what's urgent / late / stalled / overdue to report, and turns the things you mention in passing into tracked work before they fall through a crack. It walks from the project-card (the anchor) down to the action-card (the work) — nine card types in all: project, action, meeting, contact, plus risk, issue, decision, milestone and deliverable, every one linking down to the actions that move it. Portfolio reporting and stagnation-spotting are built in: Astrid knows when a project is overdue for a steering report and which action hasn't moved in three weeks — and it leads with that. Two short videos: - ▶ The explainer — project-card to action-card (1:40): https://youtu.be/Hv_I9FLQ6gA - Meet Astrid — the intro (2:40): https://youtu.be/hMdUBDRynO8 GITHUB: https://github.com/astetic-dev/astrid One deliberate choice I want to be upfront about: the UI is minimal on purpose. The only interface that ships is a single, read-only dashboard.html. That's not laziness — it's the bet. The product is the data model, not a front-end. I want this to be a core you shape to your own taste. So this is a "Show Your Work" post and an open invitation in one — I'd genuinely love for this to become a community build: - Build a UI on top of the cards — a web app, a TUI, a mobile view, an inline editor, an Obsidian/Notion sync. The JSON schemas are the contract; the dashboard is just one renderer.

Come chat about your goals for this week! Update: seems like there is an appetite for this so this will officially be Sunday Coffee #1! New reset every Sunday for the week ahead. Thought it would be fun to start a new series where we can all chat about our goals for the upcoming week. Leave a comment below: - What you’re working on - Something you hope to ship - Blockers you’re running into at the moment - Where you’re looking for help currently - Anything else you’d like to share Let’s use this as a chat room to discuss current freeform topics. Network with fellow members and maybe link up for projects. Do you think this is a good idea to have weekly? Would you like a space to come discuss your current work? Leave a like and enter your vote in the poll. If there seems to be enough interest I’ll make a new thread every Sunday. ☕️