A few years back I started writing a middle grade novel. It’s about a kid named Mike McNulty who lives in a small Jersey Shore town, turns 10, and finds out he has a power passed through his family that can drop him into alternate dimensions where he meets other versions of himself. In his […]
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I Built a Poop Emergency Delivery Service in 2.5 Hours Episode 2 of the Build and Bail podcast is live, and it’s the canonical Build and Bail story. It started with a web form. I needed a fake business name and my brain handed me “Emergency Pants For When You Poop Yourself.” Two and a
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The first episode of the Build and Bail podcast is live. This is the one where I lay out the whole system — why this site exists, why I keep starting things and bailing on most of them, and why that’s the point. Quick version of what’s in it: I also walk through a few
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People have feelings about AI. I have feelings about AI. Here are mine. I’m a validation engineer. I’m not a developer. Before AI, I’d never shipped a production app in my life. In the last year I’ve shipped: None of that existed before because I couldn’t build it. The skill gap was real. AI didn’t
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The app itself was the easy part. Next.js 14, Supabase auth, Tailwind, a calendar view for scheduling Build and Bail posts across TikTok, Shorts, Reels, Reddit, and the blog. Standard stuff. Claude Code knocked that out before I even got seriously involved. Then I tried to deploy it to Cloudflare Pages. Three days, four separate
I built a content calendar app. Shipping it took three days. Read More »
People email me their picks. I put them in a Google Sheet. Every week during the playoffs I manually look up every stat line for every player on every roster and update the numbers by hand. Then I announce standings in the group chat like a town crier reading from a scroll. Six seasons of
Build: WhoStat → Flippa listing Tools used: Claude (chat), Claude Code, Flippa This is the first Build and Bail project to complete the full cycle. Idea. Build. Ship. Bail. WhoStat is a daily sports stats guessing game — Wordle but for sports nerds. You get a career stat line with no name attached and three
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Build: WhoStat — a daily sports stats guessing game Time spent: A few hours Tools used: Claude (chat), Claude Code, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare The idea was simple: Wordle, but for sports nerds. You get a stat line — career numbers, no name attached — and three guesses to figure out which player it belongs to.
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Build: White Knuckle Golf — Listing Strategy Time spent: ~15 minutes Tools used: Claude The Problem White Knuckle Golf has three text designs. Three. And I was already spiraling about listing architecture. Should every text-on-every-product be its own listing? Should I group by product with text as a variant? Should the text be the hero
I Asked AI How to Sell Golf Ball Markers and It Told Me to Chill Read More »
Everyone shortens URLs. I went the other direction. The idea hit me while hovering over a suspicious bit.ly link — you know the feeling. You don’t know where it goes. You don’t trust it. You click it anyway because you’re brave and/or reckless. But what if the link had been longer? More path segments. More
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