A month ago this was a side project. Now it's my main one.
GhostRoom: not only live, not only recorded. Both. A room that never closes.
Everyone's here, even when they're not.
One-take, kinda chaotic demo below. Launching in ~a month. Testers wanted.
https://t.co/7DB72u4dLg
Day 42 of building VergabeMeister in public.
Today was one of those days.
Frontend still isn't clicking. Turned around to check the backend — and realized the database was never properly wired up. Not connected. Not implemented. Just... sitting there.
So I'm back to phase 5. Rewiring foundations I thought were done.
Days like this, I wonder if I bit off more than I can handle.
Still here. Still building. Still believe in what this becomes.
The messy middle is real. But so is shipping.
Leaving Salesforce for Replit.
For literally 25 years I've been an advocate for Salesforce. I've probably paid them half a million over those years.
In one week I've eliminated the need. I built my own personal CRM integrated with pretty much everything. Leads, accounts, contacts, cases, contracts, projects, web scraping for building lead inventory, automated AI outreach (with Human in the loop approvals), sales cadences, website with AI chatbot, automated social media posts, and on and on and on.
My Salesforce experience allowed me, a non programmer, to learn so much. But the ease of using Replit makes my leaving SF easy.
My choice has become simple. Thousands for overly complex Salesforce, plus too much time needing to administer it. Versus a week to plan, and another week to vibe code and debug my plan.
Now <$50 per month. If I want a new feature, I just tell the AIs what I want. A few minutes later it's done.
I cannot recommend Replit any more strongly. Click and just get it. It will change your life.
https://t.co/Ym0i1uyDZ3
Day 41 building VergabeMeister.
Went down the Cursor rabbit hole today — specifically for design exploration.
Burned through my free tokens fast.
Current question:
Is Cursor actually good for UI/product exploration, or mostly great once you already know what to build?
My rough mental model:
Cursor = editor-native visual/product iteration
Claude Code / Codex CLI = repo-level implementation, tests, refactors
Anyone using Cursor seriously for design?
What’s Vergabemeister? It’s a dual Agent/Webflow for solopreneurs and small teams to win German public procurement tenders. https://t.co/OMdeugHies Sign up on the waitlist to get into the beta test.
Day 39 building VergabeMeister:
Today was unsexy but important: moving the tender corpus from legacy SQLite toward Postgres without touching the active scraper.
Snapshot first. Backfill from copy. Keep rejects explicit. No guessed procurement truth.
Current Phase 5 result:
866k tenders imported
869k lots imported
203k awards imported
43k winner rows rejected because the legacy data could not prove the award link.
Annoying — but better than inventing relationships.
Day 38 building VergabeMeister in public.
Almost 3 hours into letting Codex move the SQLite DEMO database toward production for Phase 5.
Unglamorous but real work:
• snapshot state
• disposable Postgres corpus
• shadow backfill
• importer fixes
• count/reject validation
codex-cli kicks ass. I’m on GPT-5.5 because it just works.