From the Logs: Initial Commit, Granite and KeptWell
What I've been up to the past couple of months!
It’s been quiet on the newsletter, but absolute madness on the shipping side of things!
Here are a few things I’ve shipped since we last spoke…
Initial Commit
Initial Commit has had a few different incarnations over the past ~6 months. It was originally a “business in a box” service where I was building and launching entire businesses from scratch every few weeks and auctioning them off.
Then it turned into just a pure consulting/advisory play for a couple of months, and now it’s expanded to add the Initial Commit Club! The Club is a private community and library of exclusive AI resources and skills. Currently has ~200 members and has been a ton of fun as a place for folks to trade ideas/thoughts/links/etc.
Granite
I’ve been an Evernote user for 15+ years. I’ve always had a bit of a tumultuous relationship with it. It’s historically been some of the clunkiest software I’ve ever used and I always just used it as “document storage”…never really being interested in the “knowledge base” side of it.
A month ago I got an email from them that they were DOUBLING my annual subscription and that was enough to make me throw in the towel and build a modern day replacement for the type of usage I want.
So, I built Granite. It’s a document vault. Not a knowledge base. A place to drop documents you may never need or only need once or twice. But you should be able to find those docs instantly.
Imagine a title for a vehicle. Or receipts for taxes. Or a purchase agreement from a business transaction. You simply dump all of those docs in Granite and never think about them again...until you do.
No organization. No tagging. No folders. Simple plain english text input to find exactly what you need right when you need it.
KeptWell
In early April my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That’s an overwhelming and devastating diagnosis. It leaves everyone feeling powerless and also just immediately inundated with information, medications, appointments and an infinite number of questions.
I needed a place to put all of it. A place that would actually understand what was inside. Read the pathology report, surface what mattered, connect last week's lab to this week's. A place I could ask questions out loud (what does ECOG 2 mean, what did the oncologist say about the next scan, has Mom's platelet count been trending) and get a real answer, with a citation back to the page where it came from.
That place didn’t exist. So, naturally, I built it.
KeptWell is a replacement for medical binders that come everything from major diagnosis as well as caring for aging parents.
Super Fantastic
Most people don’t realize this, but I also run a toy store. 🙂 So I’d be remise not to mention we recently launched a boatload of new products!
Okay, back to building! 🎉