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I've been in this community for about a month now and wanted to share where things stand with one of my builds. This isn't polished by any stretch. I do have a few other workflows like content-creator, document-creator, but I needed something to help me navigate my day-to-day as I begin a couple side quests outside my normal 9-5. The goal was simple: I didn't want another chat window I have to remember to open. I wanted something that knows my priorities, reads my calendar, checks my email, and texts me when I need a nudge. Not a chatbot, more like a Chief of Staff. And the goal is to operate within the bounds of the subscription with no extra costs, while also maximizing token efficiency. The other thing I didn't want to do is implement an orchestrating harness yet (OpenClaw, Hermes, etc). The challenge for myself was to keep this as simple as possible without inflating scope. Someone in this community said once: 'constraints are just as, if not more, important than your requirements. What do you NOT want your build to do?' I've definitely taken this to heart in my workflows. ## Planning I've made a few posts about this in comments, but I cannot stress the importance of planning before you build. My method was simple: - First I brain dumped context via voice dictation and transcribed this. Simple tools: VoiceMemos, copy, paste. - Next, I worked through the planning phase with the chat function of Claude in Opus 4.6. I wanted pushback, challenge, and for the model to force me to think deeper and keep me honest. This produced the product requirement document, or PRD. This was a multi-day process (a week?) in my free-time. - For the architecture build, I used Cowork. Handed it the PRD, answered a few basic questions, and then it went on it's way. Got it uploaded to a private git repo. - Currently, I'm working thru further debugging and walking thru the checklist within the PRD in a phased approach. As you'll see below, I have setup a remote screenshare so I can also let Cowork see what I'm doing. This was the most essential because we work TOGETHER to make things happen. it's like working side-by-side with my developer and engineer.

Today I'm launching an early access enrollment to a project I've been working on for the last 90 days, but really mapping out its internal workings for the last two years. It's been a long journey. It's a long story but it's finally starting to come to fruition and I wanted to share it as a win because my life story over the last three years has been tumultuous, to say the least. SWIM (Seamless Web Infrastructure for Merchants), is my earnest effort to want to really help merchants e-commerce from a place of dignity , because in today's market it feels like we're just all renting our space wherever we are. We've moved so far against what the internet was promising: to be more independent, less controlled, less monitored. That's what I'm looking for: merchant sovereignty. Join me on my mission to help merchants become sovereign. If you yourself sell online, we're starting with digital products. Hopefully in the next 60 days I'm not going to wait for it to be perfect. I'm not going to let fear overtake me or the false sense of security from the false sense of perfection. I don't even have my promotional video ready yet. It doesn't matter. I'm still going to roll with it. This is an ongoing process and it's part of what building in public really means. And I like this community and feel like this is the right place to just let it breathe. I've been trying to do this the right way - building while also organically marketing on Instagram, spending time on product market fit and really finding those users who are having these pain points, and there are a lot of them! But also building a company and taking seriously the structure and organization required in order for a company to scale, after all this is the new frontier for the solo dev entrepreneur. Anyway I've ranted enough. The link's below. Check it out. It does link to our documentation, which is still in the works. That's what I really loved about this project: it was born more from the documentation and refining those ideas before any code was laid down. Even so, changes still had to be made throughout the process and they still do and it's a lot of fun. My focus again isn't becoming the next billionaire, although I don't doubt becoming one, but rather helping the merchant really succeed in such a large market that I see becoming more fraudulent and harder on the merchant every day. Our tagline is "Commerce flows through us. We are the infrastructure for your e-commerce experience. We're not just another store."