Zenota is online
The notes app shipped on a zero-cost stack, written without writing a line of code, and finished because Stitch existed.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 0:51 (el stack gratis)
- ↳ Seed 11-1: La app de notas que yo usaría (la semilla, ahora un producto vivo)
- ↳ Seed 15-2: Vender el agente, regalar la app (el plan de monetización sigue en pie)
Seed 11-1 grew up: Zenota is online. The stack is aggressively free: Netlify renders the app, Firebase handles auth and data, and GPT itself talked me out of using the hosting we’d already paid for, because Netlify scales web apps better and manages secrets properly ▸ 0:51. Custom subdomain on luarai.com pending, login page pending, Julia’s bento logo pending. The core works.
Worth logging for the record: I haven’t written a line of code since ChatGPT-3 arrived in 2022, and this whole app continues the streak ▸ 4:01.
cero líneas escritas, una app publicada →
The feeling that comes with it
The honest cost of building this way is a strange lack of control: sometimes you fly, and sometimes a “simple” change eats three hours and you feel exposed, unsure you can fix your own product ▸ 4:27. The counter-fact that matters: so far, every problem has eventually fallen ▸ 5:14. The insecurity is real; the track record says ignore it.
And credit where due: this app sat abandoned until Stitch arrived and let me see the card-based interface before building it. It got finished because visualization got cheap ▸ 7:49, the entry 10-2 loop closing its first commercial lap. Monetization stays as seed 15-2 planned: the app free, Structo the agent as the product. Now comes the hard part: users…