Nik McFly
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What I learned by building.

Longer notes about products, mistakes, useful tools, and what worked in the real world.

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How Two AI Agents Migrated a Production Site in 36 Hours

Claude planned and reviewed the migration, Codex implemented it, and I kept the business decisions and production approvals.

#ai#codex#claude#nextjs#operations

Your AI System Needs an Owner

A practical test for deciding what an AI system may do, what a good result looks like, and when a human must stop it.

#ai#claude#operations#skills#harness

How My Cofounder and I Organize One Shared Obsidian Vault

The six-zone structure, ownership rules, weekly review, sync setup, and mistakes behind the shared vault we use for a company and a life together.

#obsidian#ai#tooling#cofounders#self-hosted

How I Document Human Authorship When I Write With AI

A practical workflow for keeping AI drafts, recording human decisions, and describing AI-generated material when registering a book in the United States.

#ai#copyright#self-publishing#legal

How I Turn Markdown Into KDP Files With One Claude Skill

The open-source workflow I use to build an EPUB for Kindle and a print interior PDF from one Markdown manuscript.

#ai#claude#open-source#self-publishing#kindle

How I Replaced MiroFish's Cloud Memory With a Local Stack

What I changed in MiroFish-Offline, how the simulation works, what local processing requires, and why a simulated population is not a real forecast.

#ai#open-source#mirofish#simulation#agents

A Flat Per-Stream Rate Cannot Predict Your Royalties

We compared nine months of streaming and royalty reports. The same stream count did not always produce the same revenue, and the money arrived later than the streaming dashboards suggested.

#music#royalties#streaming#calculator#side-project

How I Turned 24 AI Mockups Into One Dashboard Direction

A practical process for generating many visual options, comparing them against product requirements, combining useful elements, and testing the result with real data.

#ai#design#variant#product

How I Replaced a Spreadsheet With a Small Finance System

How I designed the money rules first, then built a dashboard, database, Telegram bot, and audit trail around them.

#ai#finance#vibe-coding#operations

I Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application With Help From AI

What AI helped me research and document before filing, what Patent Pending actually means, and where an inventor still needs professional judgment.

#ai#patent#open-source#vibepatent

How to Make Your Website Easier for AI Search to Find and Cite

A practical checklist for crawlability, original information, clear facts, useful page structure, and measuring visibility in AI-assisted search.

#ai#marketing#aio#seo