The Day I Started Building Solo

I'm a few hours into a SplootAudio session with Claude. We're working through GStack, Garry Tan's skill for building an app from 0 to 1, based on all his learnings at Y Combinator. Decisions stacking up. The context window is getting long.

I know what that means. Claude starts to hallucinate when there's too much loaded in. Context overload. And there's so much happening in these sessions: interviews, decisions, structure, what's been built, what's next. If I lose any of it, I'm flying blind tomorrow.

First try is a note file. Copy, paste, copy, paste. After a while it's a wall of text. Unwieldy. I'm scrolling past my own decisions trying to find what we settled on.

So I open Obsidian, a note-taking app set up to be a wiki of your own work. I tell Claude to capture and document everything from the session and put it in there.

Claude labels the file. Drops it into the right folder.

I look at it. Clean structure. I can see what's been built and what's left. I don't have to keep any of it in my head. Tomorrow I come back, point Claude at the Obsidian folder, and it gets fresh context from the wiki, not from a context window stretched thin.

I saw what's possible. I saw that I can build apps on my own.