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I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source

STRAŦUM v1 is now MIT-licensed and public. Nine agents, two Postgres schemas, ten locales — and a table that shipped with Row Level Security switched off, reachable by anyone holding the key that loads in the browser. Here is what I gave away, what I would not build the same way again, and why you are welcome to fork it and build your own.

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My AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.

June: $57.01. July: $33.09. Two months after switching to DeepSeek V4 Pro via OpenCode, my AI costs dropped 75%. The commit history proves I shipped more, not less — 786 commits across 4 products. Here's the full breakdown.

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Offline Mode for My AI App Didn't Need AI. It Needed Boring.

I almost built a clever, AI-specific offline mode for DIALØGUE's iOS app. Then I asked a more boring question — what does iOS already give me? — and the real work turned out to be resisting the urge to be clever. Here's the standard, unglamorous machinery behind "download an episode and listen on a plane," and why boring was the senior choice.

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Native Isn't a Skin: Rebuilding DIALØGUE's iOS App

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I Rebuilt My Site With Two AI Models: Opus for Design, Codex for Execution

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I Rolled Back 2,724 Lines After One AI Audio Change Broke Production

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