Skip to main content
Writing

Building in Public: Year One

After 12 years in real estate, I chose radical transparency. Here's why.

buildingaientrepreneurship
CB
Chuck Botensten
1 min read · 655 reads · Day 271 of vibe coding
Share
Building in Public: Year One

Why Build in Public?

After 12 years in real estate, I chose radical transparency. No stealth. No hiding. Just the work, open for anyone to see.

What You'll Find Here

Real estate insights. AI tools I'm building. The messy middle of starting companies. Triathlon training. No filters.

Share this article
Share
More to read

Continue reading

6 min

When a Buyer’s Glance Taught Me How to Ship Code

A kitchen‑island stare taught a former realtor to pace releases, chase feedback, and stop selling his code to himself.
5 min

How a Live SQLite Crash Taught Me to Stop Being My Own Ops

A botched ad‑hoc UPDATE while pm2 held the WAL nearly erased ninety minutes of community activity, and forced me to writ
5 min

How I Learned to Ship a UI by Turning Constraints into a Design System

I discovered that forcing myself to work inside a tiny set of CSS variables turned a chaotic mess of copy‑paste styles i

Build alongside us

Free to start. Daily build logs, posts, comments, DMs, live streams.

Join the community

Discussion

Be kind and constructive.