Building, shipping,
vibe-coding.
How to ship a real SaaS in a weekend with Lovable
A no-fluff walkthrough: pick a template, customize it with vibe coding, plug in Stripe, and ship to a paying customer before Monday. The exact prompts and decisions we used.
Why Your System Falls Apart in Week Two (It's a Keeping Problem)
Week-two collapse usually isn't bad system design — nobody kept the system. What a keeper does each morning, and the rules that hold through a bad week.
Why ADHD Adults Abandon Planners (And What to Do Instead)
ADHD adults don't abandon planners from lack of discipline — most planners are badly designed for ADHD. Here's the failure pattern and the fix.
Body Doubling Alone: How to Run a Focus Session Without a Partner
How to get the body doubling effect by yourself using a timed session and a visible log — plus session lengths, start scripts, and what to record.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: An ADHD Planning Setup That Keeps Everything Visible
An ADHD planning setup that puts today's tasks, deadlines and appointments on one visible screen instead of hiding them in folders.
Executive Dysfunction and To-Do Lists: Why Long Lists Backfire
Why long to-do lists stall people with executive dysfunction, and how writing the smallest visible next step gets you moving again.
How to Stop Forgetting Things When Your Brain Is the Only System
If you keep forgetting tasks, ideas and promises, the fix isn't a better memory — it's one inbox that catches everything in five seconds.
ADHD Planner System: What Actually Helps and What Adds Friction
A step-count test for judging ADHD planner systems: which features reduce friction, which quietly add it, and a daily loop you can copy.
Morning Routine Template for People Who Aren't Morning People
A 20-minute morning routine that starts at your real wake-up time, plus the Notion template structure that runs it without a 5 a.m. alarm.
Habit Stacking With a Daily Dashboard: Attach New Habits to Routines You Already Have
How to habit stack using the routines your daily dashboard already shows you, with the habit-formation research that backs the method.
How to Restart a Habit After Missing a Week
A missed week doesn't end a habit. Here's a planned restart: shrink the habit, pick the day, fix the trigger, and skip the catch-up.
Goal Setting That Survives February: Turn Resolutions Into Weekly Actions
Most goals die in February because nobody turned them into weekly actions. Here is how to break a yearly goal into something you can see this week.
Habit Tracker in Notion: A Setup You'll Still Open Next Month
Build a Notion habit tracker on the page you already open daily, with a hidden database behind it — so it still works in month two.
Deep Work at Home: A Daily Plan That Protects Your Focus Hours
A daily plan for deep work at home that protects your first focus block from inbox and chat, plus a simple template to keep it.
Why Productivity Apps Stop Working for You
Productivity apps stop working after a few weeks because setup feels like progress. Here's the app-switching loop and how to step out of it.
Time Blocking When You Always Run Over: Plan the Overrun Into Your Day
Your time blocks keep breaking because nothing in the plan absorbs the overrun. Here's how to build a day that survives tasks running long.
Weekly Review Template: The Sunday Routine That Actually Sticks
A 20-minute weekly review template you can run every Sunday — as a checklist inside your system, not a habit that needs willpower.
Notion Life Planner for Beginners: Start From a Finished Setup, Not a Blank Page
A beginner's way to get a working Notion life planner: start from a finished setup, change only five things, and leave the rest alone.
How to Plan Your Week When Everything Feels Urgent
A 45-minute weekly review that sorts urgent from important in one sitting, so an overloaded week gets a plan instead of a longer list.
A Life OS for People Who Hate Setting Up Systems
How to pick a life OS that runs from day one — what "no setup" really means, what to check before you buy, and what to ignore in week one.
How to Move From Sticky Notes and Five Apps Into One System
A migration order for scattered planners: what to move into one system first, what to move later, and what to leave behind for good.
Why Your Notion Setup Falls Apart After Two Weeks
Notion systems don't fail from laziness. They fail from too many databases and no daily entry point. Here's how to diagnose and fix yours.
One Dashboard for Tasks, Notes, Habits and Goals: Why Four Apps Never Add Up
Four apps means you're the only link between them. What one dashboard for tasks, notes, habits and goals removes — and how to judge one before buying.
Life OS Template vs. Building Your Own in Notion: An Honest Cost Comparison
The real trade-off between buying a Notion life OS template and building your own: where the setup hours go, and which path fits your situation.
What Is a Life OS? A Plain Definition — And Who Actually Needs One
A plain-English definition of a life OS, the four parts every one of them has, and an honest look at who is better off without one.
The blank prompt problem (and how templates fix it)
Lovable is magic — until you face a blank prompt. Why starting from a template beats starting from scratch, every single time.
10 prompts every Lovable builder should have saved
The prompt library we copy from project to project. Stripe billing, auth flows, dashboard polish — paste these in once and skip the back-and-forth.
Building a CRM in Lovable from zero vs. from a template
We timed both. Building from scratch took 3.5 days. Remixing ClientHQ took 47 minutes. Here's exactly where the time went.
The Stripe billing flow that every Lovable app should steal
Subscriptions, one-time, trials, and the Stripe Customer Portal — all wired into a Lovable project in under an hour. The schema we use.
Design systems for vibe coders
You don't need to be a designer to ship a beautiful product. The minimum design system that makes any Lovable project look intentional.
How to build an AI wrapper that doesn't feel like an AI wrapper
AI wrappers are a meme — but a thoughtful one is a real product. The product decisions that turn an LLM call into something worth paying for.