Month 62

The confidence is new. Not the idea — that's been there for years — but the feeling that this might actually work. Something shifted over the last couple of months; the pieces are connecting, and instead of draining me, the work is giving energy back.

What Moved

March was the month things went public. Not just a project website — strackt.io now has real promises on it. What the platform will do, what it'll cost, who it's for. That changes things; it's not a side project anymore when there's a page telling people what to expect.

Under the hood, the foundational pieces are landing. Application mobility, rollbacks, ZFS snapshots, per-app isolation — the stuff that makes "managed platform on your own infrastructure" more than a tagline. It's starting to actually work that way. And the shift I notice most: I'm not fighting the basics every day anymore. The days are moving toward UI, UX, tone of voice, visuals. The experience layer. That's new.

We also shipped Nebula — a mesh overlay network that gives every server a built-in VPC across providers. Your Hetzner box and your DigitalOcean box talk to each other privately, out of the box. Pretty cool for something that's just... there.

What Didn't

The balance is still tricky. I want to spend more time on strackt, but I also want to be present in the evenings and weekends. There's no clean line between the two; I just notice when I've been on one side too long.

And the thing I keep avoiding: showing it to people. Not the website — that's public now, fine. But actually asking someone to look at what I've built, use it, tell me what they think. It's incredibly difficult to step out and invite judgement on something you've been building alone for years. I know it's necessary. I'm not there yet.

Would I Pay For This Today?

No. But it's piquing my interest. If strackt can deliver on what's there, the experience will be noticeably smoother than what I'm used to. It's not there yet — but for the first time it feels like it could get there.

Next Month

April is about proving the basics hold up. Running things, watching them, seeing how the processes behave over time instead of just the moment they ship. Beyond that: monitoring and visibility built into the platform, proper dev/preview/production environments, deployment and backup processes. And keep pushing on the foundational features that are going to deliver this experience.

It's spring; things are blooming.