day 3/62
my friend jake told me yesterday that i should build a public API for Foundation. that hadn’t crossed my mind yet. and it got me excited because that would mean others could (and would want to) build on top of it.
this is a great reason to question in public and share half baked thoughts. if i’m only heads down doing my own thing, this probably never comes up. or, at least it takes long. and time is valuable in these 2 months.
there’s not a clear monetization path with Foundation, so the idea for an API makes me happy because it increases the project’s usefulness surface area. plus, it would be a challenge for me and great marketing for the project. not everything needs to be monetized, but a big reason i build and work on ideas is to make money. i just keep thinking about building my way towards freeing up as much of my time spent needing to earn income as possible. software is amazing because it can work while you don’t and you can have many small projects. there’s a sovereignty here that’s also appealing: laptop + internet x creativity = a really fun lever to pull on every day.
focus today: making a concrete plan for building the API
- on marketing: post to instagram and threads. i’m following jack frick’s ~60 day plan here for organic growth and reusing the same template for at least the first week and then i might switch it up a bit
- on x/twitter: on a lottttttt yesterday, but the universe sent me the API idea that way so what are you gonna do?
- on exercise: whooops, didn’t do this yesterday
- on consumption: drinking like 2 or 3 coke zeros a day and a bunch of coffee and seltzer. no alcohol. way more carbonated bevs. and since losing drinking water for like well over a month after hurricane helene (it’s back now) i haven’t been carrying and drinking out of my own water bottle