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The Developer Factory. Production-grade tools for builders, shipped weekly.
Solo founder building Five Dollar Workday—The Developer Factory. I build production-grade tools for builders and ship them weekly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CURRENT PROJECT Five Dollar Workday - Developer productivity tools → CodeToText: live → Assemblage: live → Buildlog: In development ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I WRITE ABOUT Build-in-public journey ($0 to $50K MRR) Technical deep-dives (React, TypeScript, Firebase) Product decisions & experiments What works, what doesn't (real metrics, no BS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PUBLISHING SCHEDULE Monday: Technical posts (features, implementation) Wednesday: Build-in-public updates (metrics, lessons) Friday: Reflections & decision logs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE BUILD 🌐 fivedollarworkday.web.app 🐦 @fivedollarday 📧 Newsletter: fivedollarworkday.web.app/subscribe Currently: Week 1/52
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Jan 5 · 9 min read · Date: Monday, January 6, 2026Status: 8/52 weeks completeMission: 12 apps in 12 months | $0 → $50K MRR The Factory launches today. Not as a manual service. As a complete product. Describe your app → Get a working codebase in minutes. But here's what ...
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Dec 28, 2025 · 9 min read · Date: Monday, December 30, 2025Status: 7/52 weeks completeMission: 12 apps in 12 months | $0 → $50K MRR The Factory proved its core promise this week: Turn a conversation into a working app scaffold. But I had to make a critical architecture decisio...
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Dec 22, 2025 · 3 min read · The Assembly Line for Software Ford reduced Model T production from 12 hours to 93 minutes using assembly lines.I’m applying the same principle to app development: reduce setup time from 20 hours to 60 seconds. But this week, while designing The Fact...
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Dec 15, 2025 · 5 min read · Excerpt: This week I proved The Factory works by building two completely different apps from one codebase in 60 seconds each. CupCalm (a cozy tea timer) and TermiTask (a brutalist hacker todo) share the same React foundation—only the YAML blueprint c...
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Dec 10, 2025 · 8 min read · About this post: This is part of building Five Dollar Workday (The Developer Factory) in public. This post focuses on Assemblage, our Shopify app component library. You know that moment when you ask ChatGPT a technical question and get a confident a...
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