Log
Weekly build notes.
Week 1 weekly review published. Search Console verified across four properties. Sitemaps shipped for every counted site. Three counted launches now have signal to measure against.
LocalShoot got an image-coverage overhaul (Openverse as a second photo source, an honest 'be the first to shoot here' placeholder, image-first candidate tooling) and Galveston launched as a second city with 12 verified spots on its own map.
Half a day on the LocalShoot launch video and LinkedIn post; the other half on the first two factory sites off the home-services-leadgen template — HandyCost and Austin Handyman.
Week 2 starts for real. The Hub publishes its Week 1 recap posts, Handscript reaches Memorial Letters Ship 1, and LocalShoot's submit flow gets rebuilt end to end.
Week 2 opened on a Monday with nothing committed to any tracked repo. Backfilled honestly rather than dressed up.
Three undocumented days behind, a scoreboard out of sync with reality, four pending §5 carries, and a deploy that's been quietly failing since Day 4. Sunday spent on doc discipline + closing two of the four carries.
No commits across any of the five repos. No uncommitted changes anywhere. A genuine rest day on Week 1 of a 132-day sprint.
Five GA4 properties wired in one morning across three Astro spokes and two Next.js sites. A Pro-team token that couldn't see its own team. One unused Vercel project deleted, code preserved. The §5 gate closed on TC Media — the doc lag is a separate story.
About six hours went somewhere else. One late-night LocalShoot fix on the way to bed was the only 50by50 commit. Build-in-public means saying so.
The day the factory engines came online, a side-quest went live, a real product attached its domain, and the news aggregator stopped looking like a dev tool. Four streams. Forty-one commits across three repos.
Planned to scaffold two sites. Shipped a design system instead — between a power outage at 2 PM and my daughter's band recital at 6:15. The honest hour-by-hour record.
Idea at 9:30 AM. Walk by 11. Lunch at 1. Live site by 5. This is the honest hour-by-hour record.
132 days, 50 useful websites, one factory, one birthday.