Long-form writing on product development, AI, and building category-defining tools.
The two features that make switching impossible
We're an A-. Production-ready. Zero critical issues. 98% test coverage. Now we build the shit that makes switching impossible. North Star and Scene Builder aren't polish. They're the moat.
Building a RAM monitor for AI development workflows
My computer kept crashing from AI agents consuming all my RAM. Activity Monitor wasn't cutting it. So I built Memmon—a simple dashboard with colored bars and a kill button.
Why ID8Labs exists and how we think about product development
Every product we build starts with a real problem from 20 years in production. We don't improve existing tools. We invent entirely new categories that treat AI as a creative partner, not a replacement.
Today we're launching ID8Composer v1.0, a new category of creative tool that treats AI as a writing partner through timeline-based story development.
As AI becomes more general-purpose, the need for specialized, domain-specific tools becomes more critical, not less. Here's why.