GoKawiilI’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.
I’ve always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be “knowable.” The contract you have with it should be “sane” (i.e., you just own it). But I’m busy, and I’m an OK-but-not-great coder. So all of these software opinions largely stayed locked in my noggin. Then, a year ago, Claude Code appeared.
My first Claude Code project was to rebuild Twitter as I always thought it should be:
All posts disappear in 7 days But you can keep a post ”alive” by replying to it
You can only post 2 times a day
You can reply 20 times a day (discussions are encouraged!)
All images appear in 1-bit black and white until clicked on (at which point they transition to color or full-spectrum grayscale)
The timeline is non-algorithmic, just simple reverse chronological ordering
Surprise! It’s really lovely. And members from my membership program have used it this past year to form a community the likes of Ye Internet of Yore. We share nice, inspiring things, and are nice and inspiring to one another.
My membership program is called SPECIAL PROJECTS. I don’t use Patreon or Substack, I built my own platform atop Memberful. Why pay a company a monthly fee to be hamstrung by how they think your program should look or be run? Each month, for the last few years, I’ve added new functions to the members’ site. Most recently, using Claude Code I built a tool to auto-generate granular chapters for my members-only livestream Q&As. And then I built a tool to index the forty hours or so of video I’ve amassed these last few years, allowing members to search the archive. When they click a question, the precise playback moment pops up in the video from which it’s pulled. It’s sort of amazing and is exactly the sort of thing I would have thought of a year ago, but never built.
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