Maker Journal October 2026

October has been an interesting month.

I'm still trying my best to optimize my Solo Workflow, which is an important part of my plan to turn my company into an AI Native Studio.

I killed quite a few products and started a few new ones. This time, the difference is that I'm trying to let AI fully manage the products.

I'm still the one driving things, deciding what to build and how things should work. But ideally, with AI handling more of the work, I should be able to manage things better. Or maybe one day, AI will be the one driving, and I'll just make the decisions. We'll see.

Currently, my Solo Workflow is driven by GrokBot, with Trello, Obsidian, and T3code supporting different parts of the process.

I'm still figuring out how everything should work together. It's already at version 5, so you can probably imagine how often I've been changing things. 😅

Anyway, here's what happened to my products in October.

ELI5

My first AI content product.

I finally automated the entire content generation process with AI. It's one of the first products where I can see how much work AI can take off my plate.

Singapore, explained like I’m five | ELI5.sg

From CPF and housing to hawker habits and Singlish. Understand everyday Singapore, whether you’re new here or just new to the topic.

ELI5.sg

BarPeek

My first free native iOS app.

I just released version 1.1, mainly fixing the widget views. I'm also waiting for approval to have BarPeek featured on the CodexBar GitHub homepage.

Not a huge update, but another small step forward.

BarPeek — Your CodexBar usage, on the go

BarPeek is the private iPhone companion for CodexBar. Check AI usage, quota resets, and cost at a glance.

BarPeek

HookFeed

This one went through quite a few pivots.

The latest idea actually came from my own problem. With multiple AI bots and agents running, I needed a better way to keep track of their notifications.

So HookFeed became an open-source agent inbox, a local Mac app that receives notifications from your bots and agents.

It's also my first time releasing a native Mac app as open source.

HookFeed for Mac — Your agents. One inbox.

Download HookFeed, the free native Mac inbox for your agents and scripts. Available for Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed, notarized and auto-updating.

HookFeed

Turns out, there are quite a lot of tiny things to handle when releasing an open-source Mac app. Things I never really thought about before.

I ended up spending more time on those details than I expected.

MailScope

My first paid native Mac app.

Unfortunately, I missed my planned launch date.

Part of the reason was that HookFeed took longer than expected. The other part was a strange issue with my Apple account.

For some reason, I couldn't log in to my Apple account through my home ISP. I spent a lot of time testing different things before finally narrowing down the problem.

Definitely not something I expected to spend my time on when trying to launch a product.

Looking back, October was less about launching more products and more about changing how I build and manage them.

I'm trying to move away from doing everything myself, but I also realise that having more AI agents doesn't automatically mean things become easier.

Sometimes it just means I can start more things and end up with even more things to manage.

I guess that's another problem I need to solve with my Solo Workflow.

Still a lot to figure out, but that's part of the journey.

Let's see how November goes.