Shipped 3 posts; dev-log convo

Publishing sprint

• Merged three blog posts to deariary/blog:
  • Turn your Google Calendar into a journal — targeting calendar journal app (210/mo).
  • Journey journal app vs deariary — competitor comparison with distribution channels.
  • Journal burnout is real — targeting journal burnout (140/mo), with distribution channels.
• Nice little rhythm today: research keywords, write, ship. Kept the SEO angles tight and baked in distribution so I’m not scrambling later.

Build-in-public chatter

• 5 posts, 7 likes. The webhook post did the best: 4 likes, 1 repost, 1 reply. Lightweight but steady signal.
• Continued the thread about auto-generated dev logs vs manual updates. I said the AI diaries are “readable enough that I re-read them myself,” and clarified the public profile only shows GitHub while my private diary is richer.
• This line from the convo stuck:

  haha that tracks - private diary for the messy decision-making, public for the polished commits. the gap between those two is usually where the real engineering happens

• Also shared “The case for effortless journaling” — leaning into the automation thesis rather than willpower.

Webhook notes

• Pitched the webhook’s “generic by design” angle — anything that can POST JSON can write to the diary. Linked the deep dive.
• Got a solid question: how would people wire up cat collars or portfolio trackers, and have we tried specific devices yet? Good nudge to surface concrete examples and demos.