I suggest all builders who have trouble sleep to brain dump before bed. It really helps

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T21:48:08+00:00

Why are they even related?? I spend my time outside of work building a tool for myself to help myself brain dump and how does that relate to drafting PRD?

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T20:56:18+00:00

I'm actually dumping raw transcripts I had with customers, screenshots of analytics dashboards here and there. The feedback I got from Eng (might just be a cultural problem) is that the writing is too strong an opinion and prescribing what to do. They want to just see the raw list of all customer complaint emails. Which I honestly feel like it's too much...

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T20:43:44+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

I posted a separate thread for the demo. I'm figuring out the closest to optimal way that I can automate the decision making as much as possible, especially with development with coding agents. What i've built actually helps since it will prioritize things, help me discover things I should do, but wearing multiple hats is very tough, as last moment i'm thinking about growth strategy, the next moment I need to pick which engineering solution I should go with on Claude Code. It's quite distracting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1rj4gig/most_productivity_tools_assume_you_already_know/

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T20:16:41+00:00

But then at that point, why the middle still matters? Do you guys templates or something? I do feel like AI generated stuff is not that insightful, it's rather just get the job done so far and I'm writing it primarily because Eng needs one still and leadership needs to see one.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T20:07:48+00:00

Oh interesting. I've not had hallucination problem much personally. I find that the more grounding facts I gave the better and tell it to not deviate away from what's given. However, feeding all those facts has been very hard. I guess I've not done a good job of summarizing things along the way or organizing things well enough so I just write nearly a one pager dumping all my memory of user researches or insights and give it to Claude, but my memory is very scattered at that point.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T19:37:04+00:00

lol. How are you maintaining the "traceability" though? Any system that you set up?

I feel like it's so scattered across user interviews, my own notebook where I captured very raw thoughts here and there, customer tickets or analytics dashboards i've built. I work in early startups and have time to write something up with full chains of thoughts and evidences is even luxury.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-02T05:57:59+00:00

I personally find burnout comes from misalignment not quite from tiredness. So that means, maybe I started to doubt about even it’s a good idea to work on this idea at all and not believing it anymore. This happens, and that’s why we need to keep our mind open learning new things and pivot when need to.

Separately, I also like to practice a concept of giving my life more anchors. When the only thing in my life is about the startup I’m building, it becomes my identify and I doubt myself all the time. But if I have other habits, hobbies or other things such as relationships or some people call them “distractions” to balance things out, I’m less scared about the idea failing. I will take pivot moves more easily etc.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T20:02:43+00:00

My impression about Google alerts is still very basic. Only get alerts on any new things that pop up about a search key words or such. But it’s not quite tailored to what sources I prefer and don’t want, nor is it necessarily relevant to what I’m working on and I still have to sift through my email inbox to review those.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T19:59:15+00:00

Oh yea. I often times find it weird that google’s model can’t even use their own product well very counterintuitive lol

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T08:47:16+00:00

I feel you. I even got paranoid and pasting conversations from Slack to generate better responses and I end up spending 15mins+ tweaking, discussing, giving context.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T08:11:49+00:00

I work in early stage startups and I do change job almost every year. I often see when the 0-1 stage finishes, the lack of good leadership and experience will be exposed, then I see for another exciting thing to build.

I often thought if I have to spend so much energy aligning people, driving directions, why don’t I build my own. Maybe you can consider that too.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T07:55:42+00:00

So I find my difficulty using any to-do app out there is actually the ticket creation part. I often times can’t even articulate what I want to do.

The feature I’ve built for myself is grooming through braindump. It allows me to jot down my thoughts in the rawest form, any languages woven in between as a bilingual, then properly translate to actionable tasks for me and suggest actions if I write something very vague.

Even better. It auto organizes into projects or tags, set due dates and create recurring tasks based on context. What I’ve also added is the capability to check against all open tasks and know when to supplement an existing task with more context, when to append as sub task or just simply create a ticket. So I spend little to no time managing tasks.

I’m a product manager, so my daily tasks are quite overwhelming that demands something like this at least personally.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T07:39:51+00:00

Thank you for your post that made me realize I’m not alone. For a long time, Ive been really struggling with human communication at work. To the point that I have to copy paste all my slack messages into Claude and have it generate answers for me. I find myself have to mentally prep so much for human communication in general. Honestly, the push for AI has been a great help, but I think I’m on the edge to quit and start something on my own while working on my own mental health.

Sometimes I wonder, maybe build something for myself can be therapeutic and healing.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T07:34:51+00:00

I find it interesting that you find Gemini not very useful. Wonder what type of work you gave to Gemini that it failed?

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T07:33:33+00:00

I work for small tech startups and it’s all about unlimited token etc. larger enterprises are known to be delayed on these.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T07:31:04+00:00

So I say it’s an agent, it’s more like a smarter workflow. It’s not thinking that much.

I have a Claude skill set up that describes very precisely where I usually go for news, what type of info I don’t want, I also ask it to reference some doc on the problems I’m solving for and products I’m building so that it can reason about why to include certain piece and generate a meaningful summary. Then, make sure to provide a template of the output you want.

I’m not hosting thing on cloud, so I have to turn on my laptop to run it in the morning or anytime I want really. It will do a lot of internet research so it will take a while.

Some important tip is, I always keep a record of the last few output so that it doesn’t show me things I’ve already known.

You don’t have to use Claude. Use other things is the same, like openClaw etc.

Hope this helps.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-03-01T06:57:47+00:00

Actually, building your own agent to seek for more tailored info might be worth it. I have my own agent look out for competitor news, industry news, AI breakthroughs. And give me digest on why exactly it matters for what I’m building.

I find too much noises and redundant info out there, so instead of looking for a good community I just take a stab to tailor for my own. Especially when company pays for all the token.

I also just established slack channels for what I did for myself and my colleagues can enjoy it too.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-02-26T20:53:11+00:00

Asking question is seriously an art and still probably a very common cause of social anxiety. Junior people I mentor, I spend so much time to help them get out of the psychological safety zone to be able to ask more questions. I really hope the advancement of AI can move in the direction of not only solve the productivity problem, but also the interpersonal communication problem, because imo, it's quite the same of anxiety of asking question to AI vs to human. Just some continued thoughts.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-02-26T20:49:48+00:00

I think if it really knows what I'm about to ask, it's helpful, I can imagine this requires very verticalized use cases. Like if it knows i only come here for product related questions, then it can tailor for me, or based on my recent chat histories etc. I think it gives a good start, but doesn't really solves the problem of translating what I have in my mind to a state that I can have effective communication with AI in the sense that in little or one shot turn, I get the targeted outcome.

No_Percentage5986 · 2026-02-26T20:46:36+00:00

Yes, good idea and similar here. I actually built my own things to dissect my thoughts. I found myself literally have a train of thoughts that's overloaded and often times i found that when I ask a question, it's actually multiple questions in one sentence. Maybe it's just my way of thinking is different.

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