The Log

Short entries, long articles, all in one timeline. Red bars are failures that taught me something. Green bars are breakthroughs. Articles go deeper.

Mar 15
r3d.bar goes live

Bought the domain. Connected Cloudflare. Deployed from GitHub. Auto-deploy on push to main. The whole thing took one Claude Code session. First green bar for the site itself.

Mar 14
Draft onboarding test: 12% completion rate

Ran 50 users through Draft’s onboarding flow. 12% made it to their first generated message. The mic permission prompt kills momentum — 38% drop off right there. Need to rethink the flow: show value before asking for permissions.

Mar 10
Transcripted pricing: $0 conversions at $9/mo

Zero paid conversions in the first week at $9/month. Free tier (local transcription + Familiar Voices) is too good — nobody hits the paywall. The AI summaries aren’t compelling enough to upgrade for. Need to find a sharper wedge for paid.

Mar 8
Draft voice detection hits 94% accuracy

After 200+ accepted drafts from 10 beta users, Draft’s style matching hit 94% — measured by edit distance between generated and accepted text. The RLHF loop is working. Users are editing less over time, which means the learning flywheel is real.

Mar 5
CLIs are the future of AI integration

GUIs were always a compromise. Now that AI agents are real, the command line is back — not because developers are nostalgic, but because it's the only interface that actually works for AI.