Notes from building CodeSpring. The real stuff - stress, wins, mistakes, growth.
Anthropic didn't get lucky with MCPs and Claude Code. They played a very deliberate game of chess, and it's reshaping who gets to build software and what 'developer' even means.
Starting a public journal about building CodeSpring. Not the polished version. The real one.
I went from building everything myself to managing a small dev team. The hardest part isn't the work, it's the conversations you have to have and the ones you keep putting off.
I moved to Greece for a month to see if my business could run without me. It couldn't. But the forced downtime turned out to be the most valuable thing I've done.
The strategy that took CodeSpring from barely surviving to £150K/month in six months. It came down to one idea: stop trying to improve the core product and build new things around it instead.