How Checked Off Actually Works
What using Checked Off day-to-day actually looks and feels like, and the thinking behind why it works this way.
The amount of process behind a small app
What one person plus AI actually looks like day to day - more disciplined and slower in places than the 'vibe coding' stereotype suggests.
There's an assumption built into "solo founder using AI" that goes something like this: one person, AI-accelerated, therefore fast and loose. Ship first, figure it out later. Move at the speed of prompting. That's not how this actually works, at least not here. Before any code gets written, there's a spec. Not a paragraph of vague intentions, an actual document: what the feature does, why it exists, what it explicitly doesn't do, how it's supposed to behave in the cases th…
Local-First and Bring Your Own Data
Your data lives on your device. The core app works offline. The positioning choice is deliberate, and it matters.
Routines Show One Item at a Time
A routine that shows its full list at once is a routine that displays its total weight at every glance. Checked Off shows you the next item, then the next.
