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Founding Federation, Week 0. The week for pricing your life and picking what to build. They built anyway.
See upcoming classesCover: The nebulous monolith by @profit4dogs
Week 0 is the week you work out what your life costs and pick a branch — Make and Do or Go To Market. Nobody is supposed to ship anything yet.
They shipped anyway. An essay that sat in drafts for weeks. A radio bridge that took a year. A guide for getting your deposit back from a landlord who'd rather keep it. Here's the week.
This issue was assembled by AI from what you shared in class. Want your piece changed or taken down? Email [email protected] and it's done.
No. 01 Render Bluesky
His public crumb for the week: post the thing he made in Blender. Shaders finished Tuesday, posted Tuesday.
“We're going to the neeeebulooooous mooonooooliiiiith chaaaaarliiieeee”
@profit4dogs Watch it →
No. 02 Built in Agentic SDLC
A distributed recommendation algorithm, built in the Agentic SDLC class. Videos come from PeerTube servers run by communities, and your feed is ranked on your own device by a recipe you control. Every pick has a “Why am I seeing this?” — and nobody else decides it.
“Federated video, ranked on this device by a recipe you control.”
the Agentic SDLC class Visit →
No. 03 Essay Working Through the AI Transition
I spent the first half of my career in the nonprofit sector as an applied researcher and policy advocate working on climate change, clean energy, and just transition. Just transition is the concept of ensuring a fair and equitable shift away from fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy without leaving workers, communities, and entire regions behind.
He skipped Wednesday's class to finish his crumb — a Substack, and the essay he'd been putting off for weeks.
@richardsonlj Read it →
No. 04 Hardware
Band power off a Bluetooth headset, streaming. Demoed in class Tuesday.
@wombat83
No. 05 Guide 412.shittyrentals.com
Get your security deposit back from a bad-faith landlord: document the unit at move-in so thoroughly and so truthfully that they decide not to even try.
“renters, pls benefit from my rage and spite”
@b3n Read the guide →
No. 06 Radio
A year of work, released Wednesday morning. Messages, voice, data and images over 915 MHz radio, no center.
@wombat83
git clone https:// github.com/ rpbostick/ crafting-guild
No. 08 Open source GitHub
Build software with a small team of Claude Code agents. One session plans, sends builders into git worktrees, checks what they claim, and merges with your tests as the gate. He posted it to every Discord he's in.
@rpbostick Clone it →
No. 09 In the works
Planned lessons, spontaneous learning and past learning go in; a parent reviews; a transcript comes out. He found a competing app this week and decided he likes his better.
“lives at cloudflare, stands on claude and espresso, keeps a D1 database and durable objects, I feed it”
@farmer.andy
No. 10 App
In internal testing on Google Play
What Am I Agreeing To? A terms-of-service reader. First prototype built, design fully scoped, ruleset in research.
@effythealien Her other tools →
No. 11 Apron
Also this week: she pivoted her whole project after Tuesday's class and had a working prototype by Wednesday.
“I'm building a content generator that learns you, gives you a prompt to riff on, then mines it for nuggets.”
@ang
When Coke came out, everyone tried to be Coke and failed. The people who figured out what Coke drinkers needed made a shit ton of money on refrigerators and vending machines.
Three games in right now: Pedge a Bobble, Blizzard Run and Pippin's Pipes. Walk in.
Every current and former student gets the AI tutors on campus, and they remember you — what you were building, where you got stuck.
Come by.
More from Founding Federation and Context Engineering, as posted.
No. 01 Site Context Engineering
A knowledge graph of all his synths and modules, with patch mapping. A studio-assistant agent is planned next.
@a.different.jason Visit →
git clone https:// github.com/ Shw33n/ Monday-Launcher-Mockup
No. 02 Repo Context Engineering
Shween pushed a mockup repo during Context Engineering and kept working on it over the weekend.
“here you go guys this is what I have so far. Will keep working on it for the weekend”
Shween (@sc8872) Clone it →
No. 03 Status Intro to Agents
Alpha, looking for testers
An Ollama-style local model runner with tool calls, built from scratch. It is an alpha CLI, and he is asking for testers.
“I wanted something entirely my own and tailored to my workflow so I went for it.”
@nodocs
No. 04 Render Founding Federation
A brand-interview video for Sagax, made with Kittl, Claude Design and Suno.
@ang Watch it →
No. 05 Note
His Affinity build for Twenty CRM went live, and he offered his job-finder tool to the cohort.
@fabian
No. 06 Sketch Founding Federation
A game about the awebo bird, in Godot, headed for itch.io.
“making a game about this bird”
@soph0n
No. 07 Status Founding Federation
In progress
A bike-weather app in TypeScript and React, on Cloudflare's free tier.
@rpbostick
100% is for video games. For business, you can't shoot for done, you've got to recognize 'ready.'
My project is me, soft launching my dang self so maybe I can stop being corpo drone one day
If you're not the builder or the paying customer, you're the product.
I started with zero training at the beginning of the year… I have cherry picked the hell out of them for what I need
perfectionism is kind of like a fantasy. Like a superhero
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