I'm building Gostly as a solo founder while the rest of my life stays deliberately full. This log keeps me honest about both. Every entry has the same four parts.
The format
Shipped
The one milestone that actually landed this month.
Hard decision
The call I made, and what it cost.
One number
A metric that moved, even when it moved the wrong way.
Off the keyboard
Proof the balance held. Usually a dive.
Why in public
Two reasons. First, a solo founder's biggest failure mode is drifting toward the comfortable problem instead of the load-bearing one. A public monthly number is a cheap forcing function against that. And second, the people I want to work with should be able to watch how I actually make decisions before we ever talk. The log is the interview.
The useful entries will be the ones I didn't enjoy writing.
First entry coming soon
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