mekod
Joined 10 months ago
Joined 10 months ago
What’s fascinating is the pattern we’re seeing lately: people who explored the frontier from the outside now moving inside the labs. That kind of permeability between open experimentation and foundational model companies seems healthy.
Curious how this changes the feedback loop. Does bringing that mindset in accelerate alignment between tooling and model capabilities — or does it inevitably centralize more innovation inside the labs?
Either way, congrats. The ecosystem benefits when strong builders move closer to the core.
I built Ledger because I felt like a "guest" on every writing platform I used. Notion is a hotel; comfortable, but they own the keys. Medium is a billboard; they own the traffic.
I wanted a house where I held the deed.
So, yes, it is another blogging platform. But here is the difference:
It stores absolutely nothing. I have no database. (Actually, it exists if you want.)
Bring Your Own Database (BYOD): It connects directly from your browser to your Supabase project via LocalStorage.
The Philosophy: It is effectively a "Serverless SQL Client" designed specifically for long-form writing.
The Aesthetic: The design is "Bureaucratic Brutalism," inspired by Franz Kafka. I wanted a UI that feels less like "tweeting" and more like filing an official document into an archive.
There are no likes, no metrics, and no "Forgot Password" button. As the quote on the dashboard says: "I am free and that is why I am lost."
wp btw
Benchmarks keep improving, but in real workflows the biggest productivity hit isn’t hallucination — it’s refusal or excessive caution at exactly the wrong moment (scripts, debugging paths, concrete next steps).
Curious how others here think about the safety vs usability tradeoff, especially for long-running or agent-style workflows.