I built a personal dashboard in my boxers on New Year's Day

First Saturday of the new year. I should be recovering from cake and cinnamon rolls. Instead I'm on a livestream in my boxers demoing a personal dashboard I built.

Halfway through, my friend Zain says something I had to write down:

His wife doesn't code. She had an idea at dinner for something that would help her friends.

They sketched it on the counter and just... built it.

The two of them had a working prototype in about an hour.

Same thing happened to me.

All my stuff was scattered across a million apps...3 calendars, Claude, Stripe, Substack, Notion. So I started building a dashboard that connects them and can view them exactly the way I want (I call him Felix.)

My girlfriend peered over my shoulder and her eyes lit up. We spent the next 2-3 hours building her one too.

It tracks her spending (auto forwards receipts from her email inbox and organizes them for her accountant), has her task list organized how she manually does it now (Today, This Week, 2 Weeks) and takes all of her notes from her Remarkable tablet and integrates them.

That's what "kid again" actually means. AI has given me my version of adult LEGOS (TBD, I would usually wait til someone else built the massive 1,500 piece pirate ship and then I would play with the finished product.)

But most people aren't feeling this yet. And it's not the tools...

You have access to the same AI we do.

You can't create what you can't picture.

So we started showing what we're making.

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Stay Curious,

P.S. Two weeks before that livestream, four of us sat around my dining table in Atlanta for three days straight. One guy brought a desktop computer.

Not a laptop. A desktop. Monitor stacked on pretzel boxes. Four dogs licking our feet. I forgot to eat lunch twice.

This is not a polished operation. We're proud of that.

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