Building in the Margins: Why I’m Spending the Next 3 Years Creating "Sidekick"
Why I'm spending the next 3 years building Sidekick in the open — mastering the full stack without vibe-coding.
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Journal of Project Sidekick
Building in the open; writing as it happens
Notes, decisions, experiments, progress updates, and lessons learned while building Sidekick — an open-source personal operating system. Written as the project evolves, balancing development with a full-time job and family life. Estimated timeline: 2–3 years.
Living Implementation Plan of Sidekick
Tasks are grouped into phases. Each phase is a shippable milestone — by the end of it, something real and working exists that you can use, demo, or build on top of. Phases are sequenced to minimize…
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