A lot of guys in the Build in Public community on X post about shipping apps in a single weekend that start making money immediately. If it’s true, then I’m a little jealous, because I certainly can’t ship an app in a single weekend that is of any quality.

My assumption is that these apps are rather poorly built, cheaply scrapped together, filled with sloppy AI code. Most will have no long-term value once this craze ends.

I’m not here to bash on these people, but rather to share my own perspective. I’ve found that building something useful and genuinely valuable takes time. It requires careful planning, problem-solving, and architectural vision. This comes with experience, but on a single project, it comes from working with the code and building out your ideas.

It’s a creative process as much as it is a precise cognitive task. It requires high-level thinking and for me, even sometimes handwritten note-taking.

The hope is that this dedication will lead me to releasing a piece of software that has genuine value and usefulness for a lot of people in the world.

Right now, that is the Data Machine plugin. The prototype version currently powers the Festival Wire on Extra Chill. The very first prototype was built for a freelance gig that had me processing PDF files through 3 steps of AI. I automated it and came out $1500 richer, and the Data Machine was born.

However, this last polishing phase is taking much longer than expected. There are a lot of moving parts. And the system that I created months ago leaves demons that haunt the code. It is coming together.

Very soon this website will be given an update to prominently feature Data Machine and everything it can do.

It’s taken me literal months of hard work and focus to reach this point. And now it’s so close I can taste it.

Back to the trenches I go.