Day 60 of My One-Person Company

March 23, 2026 01:42

The bar for fulfilling wishes just got lower

I keep marveling at how this is the best era for curious, hands-on product people. Over the past week, despite a packed TODO list, a few small personal wishes quietly came true.

  1. Back in mid-2022, I wanted to build a literary clock extension — one that shows the current time through passages from literature I love, with the hex value of the time as the background color. This was purely to satisfy my own curiosity: what were writers thinking when they wrote about time?

That idea sat buried in my Feishu docs for years. Then last week I stumbled upon it, opened a new terminal window, tossed the requirement to Claude Code, and — working on and off — went from development to publishing in a single day.

The extension is called "Shike — Chinese Literary Clock." I hope everyone who uses it can feel and collect those fleeting moments about time in literature. Here's the link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/agoanicnncfnnilkkihplfkpkpkhdbac?utm_source=item-share-cb

The hardest part was actually the corpus. Without clear constraints and scope, AI hallucinates and fabricates. I'm not fully satisfied with the sentences yet, so it's only been beta-tested in a few small groups.

  1. On Saturday I didn't want to do anything too mentally taxing, but when I walked into my study that evening, the computer pulled me in like a black hole. I opened the terminal again — let me build a personal blog, the domain was bought ages ago during Chinese New Year.

It came together quickly. This, too, was a gift I'd been meaning to give myself for a long time.

Back to Day 60

Today marks 60 days since I left my job to go solo. Though if you count from when I actually got my business license, it's only been about a month.

One sentence to sum up these two months: I haven't made much cash, largely because my actual efforts, projects, and energy allocation haven't been evaluated through a commercial lens. That's a capability issue but even more an attitude issue. In the short term, I don't think that's necessarily bad. Overall, I'm fairly satisfied with myself — I've seen a lot of hope. Of all things, hope is the most beautiful.

Also, I'm being "seen" more. Including seeing my own boundless energy and potential.

I'll stop here for now. Maybe I'll write a more complete version another time. Good night!