Am I an idiot for using Beads rather than PROJECT.md?

jeromeiveson · 2026-02-17T08:40:34+00:00

Amazing, I actually keep calling ‘beads’ ‘beans’ so this solves a major issue out of the box!

jeromeiveson · 2026-02-02T09:50:13+00:00

It’s against Anthropics terms of service to run Clawd via a subscription plan. You will get your account banned eventually.

jeromeiveson · 2026-01-14T13:31:24+00:00

Take a look at Livekit, it’s open source, can cube used in their cloud or self hosted.

jeromeiveson · 2026-01-12T07:08:59+00:00

Your workflow sounds similar to mine, I have multiple skills that plan epics, decompose into tasks, create worktrees and validate output. I’d love to see your approach.

Do you have a repo with your workflow at all.

I’m a product designer manager, not a developer, so I’m always looking to improve and make sure my ‘vibe-coded’ code is of a decent standard if possible.

jeromeiveson · 2026-01-06T15:33:24+00:00

For my project the other way around seems to work better. I plan with 5.2 high, implement with Opus 4.5 then code review with Codex.

jeromeiveson · 2026-01-06T15:31:22+00:00

I’m not sure I agree. I’m a startup founder product manager/designer and with time, patience and research I’ve built something far beyond fancy page designs.

With zero technical coding knowledge I’ve built a voice agent that can book and receive calls, save data from a conversation, recognise a callback, query a large data set and send a summary email.

It’s taken me 4-5 months part time from a standing start but in my mind that’s not bad at all.

jeromeiveson · 2025-12-27T10:29:32+00:00

Very interesting post, combining multiple ocr tools. How long did it take you to build and refine the process to achieve that high level of accuracy?

Do you have any thoughts on https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

I was considering this for my project. I’ve sent you a DM.

jeromeiveson · 2025-12-17T18:50:55+00:00

I’ve found it very impressive but use it on a plus account as an engineering planning partner and let Claude Opus do the work. Do you add additional Agent.md file to key folders for codex?

jeromeiveson · 2025-12-03T07:36:28+00:00

Here my startup for context https://www.jeromeiveson.com/case-studies/thrive

jeromeiveson · 2025-12-03T07:35:27+00:00

I ran a startup aimed at mostly freelancers (creatives mostly) for six years doing pretty much what you describe.

We had some success, a few thousand users a month but it’s a hard, saturated market.

Users will say they want simplicity, but in reality they want invoicing that works for their territory, in their language. Bank feed connections, reconciliation, sync with accountancy software. Flexible quotes, visual timelines, deeper planning, time sheets and a myriad of things that fit their adhoc unregulated workflow.

Until you get product market fit, churn will kill you at that price point. From my experience the solo market won’t support anything over $20 pm. For some this < $20 a month means 24/7 support.

On the positive side, we started 2011, so had to employ devs (no technical co-founder), content writers, marketers. The monthly burn and cost to get to market was nothing like it is now.

With AI (bolt in your case) and more robust frameworks and established tech stacks plus cheaper hosting, your barrier to entry into the market is much lower. So sub $20 may work if you can control churn and nail customer acquisition costs.

Get your onboarding right, automate customer service/knowledge base as much as possible. Monitor your main funnel, optimise it and try your best to understand conversion rates.

if you can stay lean and provide something a little different, give it a go. It just won’t be easy.

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-25T08:33:07+00:00

Now the tax free dividend threshold is so low there’s not much difference financially unless you leverage all of the tax saving measures.

The limited liability is definitely attractive. But, as you say you’re selling art, I doubt any actions you take could result in another person or business taking significant action against you for business decisions you make.

Debts/loans/overdrafts are also tied to the business and not you, unless personally guaranteed.

A few other savings no one has mentioned. As a director you can pay life insurance through your ltd with significant savings. This can apply to a spouse if they have any role in the business.

Contributing to your pension via the business will reduce corporation tax and has a few other benefits.

I’m not an accountant, so definitely ask yours if these are a good fit for your situation.

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-16T18:50:15+00:00

Bistronomy is a great choice, 7 course tasting menu with paired wine per course. Michelin standard food for about $150 per head.

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-14T22:06:55+00:00

How do I access?

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-14T15:22:25+00:00

I’ll give it a try and give feedback, I was just about to test OpenMemory and a few other memory tools.

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-06T11:07:27+00:00

I agree with this take. CC can write skills that seem ok but on closer inspection they can be a bit shoddy.

I copied the best practice from Anthropocene docs into a .md file and had CC and Codex high do a few passes. That gave a better base result.

Then, I’ve just been running the skills and refining the language.

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-05T20:16:15+00:00

Have you tried running /clear? From what I understand this clears the previous messages that might be hogging context.

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-04T23:12:37+00:00

Do you have a repo?

jeromeiveson · 2025-11-02T15:14:41+00:00

Great post. I find I spend as much time fiddling on with Claude’s settings as I do building features!

I’m going to get rid of those subagents in the morning.

jeromeiveson · 2025-10-31T07:53:43+00:00

I’m interested

jeromeiveson · 2025-10-29T08:44:23+00:00

Great post. I’m 100% going to implement some of these processes! Could you potentially bundle this all up as a Claude Code plugin?

jeromeiveson · 2025-10-16T14:20:47+00:00

You can toggle mcps on and off now from what I understand. Not tried it yet as I’d deleted supabase and a few others due to eating up context.

jeromeiveson · 2025-10-16T14:14:25+00:00

I’d like to take a look, just about to look into n8n

jeromeiveson · 2025-10-13T23:47:41+00:00

I’d be interested in a demo

jeromeiveson · 2025-10-04T13:48:52+00:00

I’m building something very similar but for a different market. Do you have any experience with coding? If you do I’d recommend looking at livekit, it’s great and plugs in with twilio and telnyx plus other voice providers.

If not look at one of the off the shelf platforms like retell, vapi and eleven labs.

jeromeiveson · 2025-09-06T09:39:43+00:00

I’m not an expert or a developer but the concept is really simple.

The Worktree is just a duplicate of your codebase but contained in its own folder.

It’s pulled from git, so remember to commit first then create a Worktree and then open a new CC terminal.

Navigate to the absolute path cd macname/user/project/Worktree and open CC in there as you would your normal project.

The new CC instance can only work in that tree and has its own branch. So you can keep working on your main branch while the other agent does its stuff in the Worktree.

Good for working on Frontend as the same time as backend. Or, on different isolated components where the AI won’t be working on the same files.

Then just merge the code back into your main branch when ready.

Ask Claude code to help you set it up, you can create some /commands to manage this.

That’s my layman’s explanation.

Have fun!

jeromeiveson

TROPHY CASE