explore | Grilled Cheese

Saturday and I'm designing the perfect survey instead of touching grass.
5 questions became 18. Nobody will finish it. I regret nothing.
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Bad workflows get worse when automated.

Before adding AI:
• Cut steps customers don't value.
• Keep judgment human.
• Automate repeated, rules-based work.

Small teams win by deleting work before delegating it.

What will you cut before automating?

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Building felt hard.

Then marketing showed up. 😭
Now I’m learning a whole new game — finding the right people, getting attention, and surviving the silence. 😅

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The unglamorous part of building Story Bible Studio: a database structured so your characters, timeline and world stay linked as you write.

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Friday: launched a tiny feedback form this morning, had 6 real responses by lunch.
Turns out people will tell you what they think — if you just make it easy to.
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First outreach attempt: done. 😅
I’m still awkward at this, but slowly figuring out who to talk to, what to say, and who actually cares. One message at a time.
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Thursday and the first response to my feedback form was "the form works great."
Not the feedback I needed, but I'll take the QA.
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Same chores, every week. Sorting enquiries, retyping receipts. Still by hand.

The AI-First Operating Playbook starts with the boring part: AI prepares, you approve. Money and signatures stay with you.

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LinkedIn is officially part of the experiment now. 😅

I’m figuring out how to market Baton without sounding like I’m selling to everyone. If you’ve used LinkedIn to get your product in front of the right people, I’m all ears.

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Marketing time. 😮‍💨
Building it was one battle. Now I have to make people actually notice it. 😅
Let’s see how this one goes.
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Tuesday and I spent longer choosing a tool to make a feedback form than it would've taken to just... ask people.
Procrastination with extra steps.
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Kernel panic. No on-call, no team. Just me.

It wasn't what failed. It was the combination.

I finally wrote a postmortem. The fix fit in four sentences.

https://praveenlavu.com/dispatch/solo-founders-don-t-write-postmortems-they-should #BuildInPublic #SoloFounder

Your GDPR slip is rarely dramatic — an unsigned DPA, a pre-ticked box. 'Just in case' isn't a retention period.

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Saturday. My to-do list says "rest."
I have added three sub-tasks to it. I have missed the point entirely.
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Friday and "My Day" is finally empty.
A rare and beautiful sight, gone the moment I remember three things I forgot to add.
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Founders: what's the pettiest thing you've added to a to-do list just to cross it off?
I'll start: "open laptop."
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The weekly limit forced me to stop building… and honestly, I needed it. 😅

Sometimes the best progress is stepping away, feeling the breeze, and taking care of yourself. 🌿
Rest now. Build better later.

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Thursday and I finished a task, felt great, then realized I'd written it on the list *after* doing it just to check it off.
We take our wins where we can.
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