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Decisions, learnings, and progress across the incubator. Updated weekly.
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Evaluation criteria, kill/continue framework, distribution channels
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Ethos site launched
2026-02-06- Created standalone ethos site to document the Solo AI Product Incubator model
- Built /projects page to track active experiments with status badges
- Set up /log page (this one) for ongoing documentation
- Established weekly log workflow: Monday reminder → Sunday review → publish
Decisions
- →Keep ethos site separate from guildry and public-brief - each project gets its own repo/deploy
- →Use markdown-style content in JS for now - low overhead, version controlled
- →Weekly log cadence with session-start prompts to capture notes throughout the week
Learnings
- ◆AI-assisted development is 10-20x faster than traditional estimates - Phase 0 took half a day vs 3 week estimate
- ◆Discovery-first approach beats rigid upfront schemas - let AI conversations reveal what data matters
Guildry Phase 0 complete
2026-02-06- Completed foundation: Clerk auth, Supabase with RLS, Claude API integration
- AI can create clients via natural language conversation
- Fixed schema mismatches (org_id vs organization_id) across codebase
- Consolidated documentation into /docs folder
Decisions
- →Pivot Phase 1 from 17-PR waterfall to discovery-first approach
- →Let AI conversations reveal what data structure clients actually need before locking schemas
- →Skip Sentry for now - add before production launch with real users
Learnings
- ◆Build guides can be overspecified - risk building rigid models that don't match real workflows
- ◆The 'target schema' pattern (AI extracts structured data via function calling) is flexible enough to evolve