Looking for solopreneurs between $1k–$9k MRR to connect with. It can be lonely building @carenote.app. I’d love a regular connection point with others at or just past this stage of business growth. DM me if interested. #buildinpublic

I spent 40 minutes in a future 11-year-old me could only dream about: an autonomous robot writing code using only my voice. I built a way to talk to Claude Code while out on a walk. Since starting to use CC over the past month, I was worried I'd always be tethered to a desk. That fear is gone. Wow!

I did something hard today. I announced CareNote v6 and emailed 400+ users a sneak peek of what’s next. A lot of anxiety released. v6 is a ground-up rebuild—faster, more secure, more capable. One timeline. One place. One system. Built to hold care better. #buildinpublic

Three new customers today in 2026. May this happen everyday this year! #buildinpublic

Lost a customer this morning at 11:45am. Reached out, figured out what they needed, won them back after dinner, about an hour ago. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

I've wanted to use more animations to explain features in CareNote today I built one with Claude. It's so freaking cool. www.carenote.app/pastoral-car...

Hey 🏗️, I'm on schedule for my Advent calendar of posts for @carenote.app. 11 days in, and my engagement on FB is up 133%, it has resulted in anything but it's nice to say I'm trying. #buildinpublic. How are you sharing content with potential customers? I'm posting daily on four social media sites.

Hey 🏗️, Just finished an onboarding call, it was recorded and is being transcribed, mined for insights, and accessed by AI sales coach for next steps. This is the world I've wanted to make sure I stay on top customer onboarding and engagement. So nice! #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Finally, have my internal CRM up and running with daily tasks. I just completed the first task generated by my CRM. It’s nice to see all my trials and leads in one place and to know exactly where they are in the sales funnel—and what my next step is to close them. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Playing around with agentic coding tonight. I created something really beautiful. We processed 171 customer calls—transcribed, classified, extracted pain points and promised features. And then the agent refreshed and wiped the database without a backup. $115 and hours gone. #buildinpublic 😤

This took entirely too long to develop, but I finally finished my @carenote.app advent calendar of content. I'm committing myself to posting content daily in four places. I'm using Advent to launch this content campaign. #buildinpublic

I'm enjoying this discussion in the Ann Arbor Politics fb group where they are attacking me for stating something factual, but I can't reply because I'm being moderated. #a2council You can read the MLive article: archive.is/VfBEC You can hear my direct comments: www.youtube.com/live/8HPmu4z...

Hey 🏗️, It’s been a wild 24 hours. I lost a sizable new customer yesterday, which stings even though you understand it. Then today, I gained a customer worth more than 3x that amount. Building a SaaS is an emotional ride🎢. The swings are real. #buildinpublic

I’m feeling grateful today. I’m finalizing the terms for our church to receive an interest-free loan to pay off our mortgage. It’s the result of a lot of behind-the-scenes work, relationship-building, and persistence. I created the conditions that made this possible and I’m extremely proud of that.

Once again, I’m so happy that I can upgrade my computer to the latest OS without worrying that my development environment will get f*ck’d. Thanks to the Laravel Herd team and @marcelpociot.bsky.social #muchgratitude

Hey 🏗️, I built a command today to auto-generate my CareNote release notes. Since I use commit messages as my release log, AI can read and summarize them into a blog entry. And it worked—I can now automatically create the content I used to do manually. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, My sales dashboards are up and running, and I’m now ingesting my email, calendar, trials, intent surveys, and interactions so I have a clearer picture of my funnel. Tomorrow, I start contacting the 92 trialing leads who are ready to subscribe to CareNote. #buildinpublic

So I'm capturing leads from all sources (web, email, phone, trials, sms) feeding them into dashboards to move them through my sales funnel to see if I can convert them into paying customers. First step: collecting and aggregating the data. Next step: taking action based on that data. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I’m learning so much this morning now that my lead, intent survey, and interactions dashboards are up. I found a prospect who started a trial with their personal email and then emailed me today from their church email—I would have missed that it was the same person. #buildinpublic

I’m so excited, my internal CRM is coming together. I now have a central place for my emails, calendar, texts, demo recordings, so I can ensure I’m following up with potential trial teams. My daily dashboard now guides me on who to call, who to send a follow-up to, and more. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Up early handling sales emails before work and building out my internal CRM to help me close more teams. I need to shift from building to sales to convert more of my funnel. Next up is connecting my email to my CRM to track interactions and flag those awaiting a response. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I figured out how to handle my trialing users. I have a flow now: a 14-day trial, a 21-day reactivation nudge, at 45 days the account is deleted if they haven’t subscribed. I just built the dashboards to help me manage all of this. Today, three teams reactivated their trials. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I just manually sent 175 individual emails to customers who started a trial but didn’t convert and didn’t delete their trial account, even after linking their church management systems. If all of them subscribed, I’d meet my financial goals with CareNote. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I have to remember that when Git operations on GitHub don’t work, it’s usually an outage, not that someone has hacked into my account and deleted my repository. I must remember this. 😂 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Updated my site today, reflecting on the early days of CareNote—when I’d do anything to win one church. After onboarding 600 teams, I know exactly what CareNote is: a purpose-built pastoral care platform. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic Why CareNote? → www.carenote.app/pastoral-car...

Hey 🏗️, I just shipped the coolest feature I’ve ever built in CareNote. I can finish a pastoral visit, walk to my car, text my report to the system. No login, no app, no dashboard—just a text message & it’s logged + shared with my team. Feels like magic. #buildinpublic youtube.com/shorts/fGEsQ...

Hey 🏗️, After the emotional setback of my first, and hopefully last, refund request from an early sponsor, I woke up to an email from a new customer who’s onboarding and eager to share CareNote with colleagues in sister churches. The ups and downs of building a SaaS. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Bittersweet day: a large church signed up, but one of my earliest CareNote sponsors cancelled and asked for a refund––a first for me. But I also shipped SMS care-request acceptance and email-to-CareNote forwarding, features I’ve long dreamt about but never had time to build. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I'm really enjoying working on CareNote. Almost every day I meet new people who are caring for their communities. I’m so grateful to come alongside folks who serve others. Had great conversations yesterday and today — it feels like a community is forming around CareNote. #buildinpublic

You should be my neighbor, so I could feed you tonight. Corn Crab Bisque Southwest Salad Grapes Baguette Lemon Crinkle Cookies web.archive.org/web/20190603... #a2council

I’m at home instead of council chambers tonight, but I’m baking lemon crumble cookies. Round two. These are perfect. The crumble is perfect. #a2council

Beautiful to see such a diverse group of voices sharing why they love Ann Arbor and believe in building a more welcoming, sustainable, and connected city. These talks capture the best of who we can be together. #a2council www.youtube.com/@MoreNeighbo...

Made these cookies tonight. My scoops were enormous. I’ll reduce by a third next time. Inspired by @strongman.bsky.social #a2council bromabakery.com/lemon-crinkl...

AAPS wouldn’t allow this as it would impact parents from dropping off their kids on their way. Instead AAPS has designed drivelines at every new school they are building. a2schoolsbond.org/news-press-i...

This is our plan in Ann Arbor: aadl.org/newdowntown. Voters in Ann Arbor this summer approved, by a 2-to-1 margin, an innovative approach to develop a new downtown library branch that will include both market-rate and affordable housing. #a2council

The coffee shop I’m working at doesn’t use labels for their drinks, they write what it is on the bottom of the cup. Then they quietly announce what the drink is & move on the next order, so people constantly interrupt asking, "What drink is this?" When it’s busy like this morning, it’s a nightmare.

Andrea Pitzer's article "You don't have to swallow frogs" is a helpful analysis of the Klein and Coates interview. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-... There's a YouTube video too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVS1...

This article/podcast shows the failure of white progressives like Klein: he rejects class solidarity with Black people and the Black experience in the US. Even as Coates draws the parallels, Klein clings to "power-first" politics—where human dignity can be sacrificed now and hopefully fixed later.

Hey 🏗️, Wild day on the new customer acquisition front—12 new churches reached out today! Four created accounts and started trials today, I had two demos, and three phone calls. I usually see ~30 trials a month, so 12 new leads in a single day feels significant. #buildinpublic

New customer requires $1M of insurance, so I’m applying for insurance. The broker is shocked that I didn't already have insurance. Yes, I haven’t needed it, so I didn’t get it. I know that’s shocking to you, but there’s no need to shame me for it. #buildinpublic

It was an honor receiving the 2025 Community Champion Award from Avalon Housing for my housing advocacy. Read my acceptance speech here. #a2council thewychefamily.com/receiving-th...

Biked the newly opened Broadway Park West last night. Grateful for more riverfront park space and for a safer, wider way to cross the river—using the new 10-ft path bridge instead of walking bikes over the dam bridge. #a2council lowertowna2.org/broadway-par...

Hey 🏗️, my competitor is offering a $40/month scholarship for up to 20 users for new churches, the same number of users on CareNote is $180/month. What would you do? #buildinpublic

I’m deeply humbled & surprised to be named @avalonhousing.bsky.social's Community Champion Award recipient. Grateful to stand with so many working for housing justice imagining a world where everyone is housed. #a2council Buy a ticket to support Avalon: avalon-housing.givecloud.co/product/HFG2...

Hey 🏗️, at the coffee shop chipping away at my CareNote task list from this past week. I’ve got plenty of post-sales call follow-ups to handle, along with a long list of development and coding tasks. Still waiting for the day CareNote feels “finished” so I can focus more on sales. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I had to email a potential customer to reframe an incentive pricing offer. I realized I was giving too much away. So, I gave them a short window to still receive the full discounted pricing, and then offered a 30% transition discount on the regular rate. I guess I’m maturing. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I just finished a long sales call. Really good call—two of the three champions are ready to commit. The Executive Pastor is hedging. I realized my competitor has an easier job: “This is my product, take it or leave it.” I wonder if there’s a lesson there for me. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, tfw you realize a trial isn’t the end of the sales cycle but the start, so you have to create a drip campaign for your trial users to get them to convert. I was led to believe the product sells itself, and while that's true, some customers still need a nudge to convert. #buildinpublic

No shit! “Black drivers still disproportionately stopped by police in Ann Arbor despite ordinance” www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... Like really, no shit, Sherlock! As CM Harrison put it: the ordinance “changed policy, but it did not change policing.” #a2council