In April I wrote that the ProjectGrid component was the unlock. I built it, measured it against the demo problem, and landed on a different next step: a real demo site.
Three parallel subagents, ten open Projex issues, one release. I skimmed the diffs at the end, not in the middle.
After a deep code review with my AI agent, I realised the code wasn't the problem. The problem was I couldn't figure out how to show anyone what I'd built.
Projex is my internal tool for managing my projects page. Its config file is TypeScript. Hand-editing it was only a matter of time before I broke something. So I built a CLI instead.
I built Projex to showcase projects on my site. The first time I tried using the dev.to integration, nothing worked. Tests passed. Types checked. Stats were completely broken.
209 commits. A rename mid-flight. Publishing pipelines that broke for two days straight. And zero blog posts while any of it happened.
The specific kind of demoralizing that comes from building something, sharing it for free, and getting nothing back.