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Maker Tracker
A personal system for running several maker projects at once: capturing ideas, deciding what to build and tracking what's in progress without losing the thread.
What needed solving
Anyone building their own projects accumulates ideas faster than they can execute them. Without a system, ideas get forgotten and ongoing projects get abandoned halfway.
Who it's for
Makers and builders running several projects in parallel. Starting with me.
What I did
- Project data model: idea, validation, build, launch, maintenance.
- Fast idea-capture flows and periodic review.
- Automations for friction-free tracking.
Decisions that mattered
- Optimized for few clicks: if logging something is costly, it won't get logged.
- Explicit states for every project, so abandoning one is also a decision.
What came of it
- Daily use managing my own project portfolio.
- Fewer lost ideas and more finished projects.
Technologies
- TypeScript
- React
- Automation
- Applied AI