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Product · 2026

IndieOS

A calm console for indie hackers running 5+ projects. Persistent project narratives, conservative attention model, and assistive (not autonomous) agents.

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Why I built it

If you run a portfolio of side projects, your brain is the integration layer. Everything else is a tab. I wanted a system where the agent helps me remember, not replace me.

Process

  1. Anchored on 'project narratives' — long-form, append-only docs that the agent reads + appends to instead of starting from zero each session.
  2. Built a conservative attention system: the agent picks ONE project per session unless I override.
  3. Reuse layer: any integration (Stripe, GitHub, Linear, Resend) shared across all projects with one auth.
  4. Assistive, not autonomous. The agent never ships. It drafts and waits.

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Lessons

  • Memory beats context window. Always.
  • The most valuable feature is the one that stops the agent from doing something dumb.