Most maker sites show you the wins. This one keeps the whole ledger: the product decisions, the real costs, the security holes caught in review. The biggest lesson so far is that building is not shipping. Everything I make ends up here, marked honestly.
Fifty-four chapters from no-idea to a live business, product-agnostic, each one running the same drill: the concept, best practice, the mistakes, tools and real costs, a checklist, and then a case study from my own project, including where it went wrong. The case-study app never launched. That's not hidden; it's the point.
Everything in progress, with its real status. No "coming soon" that means abandoned. When something dies, it gets marked dead and the lesson goes in the handbook.
I'm a solo founder working with AI as the whole team: engineering, design, content, research. The leverage is real: one person can now build what used to take five. What AI can't supply is the will to ship. I learned that the expensive way, and wrote 127,000 words so you don't have to.
This site is the one place everything lives: the handbook, the apps, the experiments. If you're building something yourself, start with the handbook; it's free and it's honest.