Notes on building products, operating marketplaces, and working with AI. No hot takes, just observations.
Collapsing eleven days of planned MVP work into one PR, making the Motus autofix pipeline fail loudly, and a pre-flight wiring check across core infrastructure.
Two iOS subscription bugs that stranded paying users at the paywall: a restore flow that returned nothing and StoreKit cancel detection that was too narrow.
A week spent consolidating how Motus resolves resting metabolic rate so TDEE calibration uses measured data first, plus a recovery-score fix and the relaunched ruhrohhalp site.
Bluetooth HR strap support for Motus, multi-photo uploads, natural language command parsing, and the dev log automation pipeline goes live.
Shipped the weekly dev log pipeline, migrated bearduckhornempire.com to its permanent home, and added full cardio workout support to Motus.
Highlights from this week's shipping across products and internal systems.
Motus gets real cardio workouts with GPS tracking, bearduckhornempire.com moves to production, and the weekly dev log pipeline ships.
Fraud detection is an adversarial design problem. The system you ship on day one is already being tested by people who want to break it.