Shipping an iPhone Game with a Robot on the Mixing Desk
App Store metadata, age ratings, screenshots, pricing, even this blog post — the release of Roadie Wars 5 was driven through the App Store Connect API by an AI copilot.
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Comic Cutscenes and a Localhost Editor
Roadie Wars 5 tells its story in comic panels between stages — authored in a homemade web editor that runs on localhost and deploys to the Simulator with one button.
Read moreThe Whole Tour Is a JSON File
100 stages, five venues, boss nights and breathers — all of it lives in levels.json, and a headless robot plays every stage to prove they're beatable.
Read moreAn AI Art Department in a Python Folder
Every character in Roadie Wars 5 is drawn by Gemini — kept on-model by a pipeline that treats prompts like a legal document and chroma-keys like it's 1998.
Read moreWhy Our First iPhone Game Starts at 5
Roadie Wars 5 : Stage Climb is the first Roadie Wars game you can actually buy. That's not a mistake — it's the joke, and it's also a design story.
Read moreRoadie Wars: Stage Climb — Privacy Policy
Privacy policy for the iOS game Roadie Wars: Stage Climb.
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Eventbrite Sync, DeepL Translation, and Claude AI: The Integration Stack Behind City of Om
Three third-party integrations that saved hundreds of hours building Ottawa's wellness festival platform. How we connected Eventbrite, DeepL, and Claude into a single Rails pipeline.
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Building City of Om: A Festival Booking System That Handles 4,000 Yogis
How we built Ottawa's largest wellness festival platform -- Eventbrite sync, slot-based booking, bilingual content, and AI-cleaned bios. All on Rails 8 with SQLite.
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How Two Spaces Almost Sank an Aircraft Carrier: A Kamal Deployment Story
Your Rails app is tested. Your CI is green. Your Kamal config is pristine. But SCAN_RUBY found a tab character on line 47 and now the entire deployment is grounded. This is the story of how whitespace nearly ended civilization.
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Your Shopify Store Is Now Shoppable Inside ChatGPT. Here's What That Actually Means.
Shopify merchants are now discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Gemini. AI-driven traffic is up 7x. Here's how it works and what you should do about it.
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We Built a Loom Replacement Into Loadout
Why we stopped paying for Loom and built a self-hosted video posting system with auto-generated intro slides, FFmpeg processing, and zero external dependencies.
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BuildOn: How Har-Tru Lets Customers Design Custom Courts in the Browser
Building an interactive court customizer with layer-based color selection, logo uploads, and PDF generation via Adobe's API.
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Building TourChamp: A Crew Portal That Runs Itself
How we built a self-service crew portal so tour managers stop playing email tag with 50 people about passport scans.
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Syncing Unleashed Inventory to Shopify: How brands Stays in Stock
Building a real-time inventory bridge between Unleashed warehouse management and Shopify for a multi-warehouse retailers.
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Solar-Asteroid Part 1: Core Functionality & Why It Matters for Solar Installers
The solar installation industry is booming. What started as small, local operations has evolved into sophisticated businesses managing thousands of SKUs, multiple warehouses, complex customer relations...
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Solar-Asteroid Part 2: Intelligent Inventory & Warehouse Management
Picture this: You have three warehouse locations. A customer orders 20 panels from your Shopify store. Your team checks one location—out of stock. They check another—only 12 in stock. By the time someo...
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Solar-Asteroid Part 3: Customer Management & Custom Pricing
You're running a solar company, and every customer is different. Your major contractor who buys 10 SolarEdge inverters a month deserves different pricing than the homeowner buying panels for their roof...
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Solar-Asteroid Part 4: Shipping, Transfers & Fulfillment
You've sold a $50,000 solar installation. Your customer is thrilled. Your team has assembled the panels, inverters, batteries, and mounting hardware. Everything's packaged and sitting in the warehouse....
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Solar-Asteroid Part 5: API Integrations & Data Syncing
Your solar business runs on multiple platforms. Some truth lives in Shopify. Some lives in Google Sheets. Some lives in Dropbox. Some lives in spreadsheets people email around. And some lives nowhere b...
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The Foundation: Crew Management & Team Building
Running a tour is like conducting an orchestra—every member has a critical role, and synchronization is everything. Whether you're managing a solo artist's three-person road crew or a full-scale arena ...
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Why We Built TourChamp: The Hidden Complexity of International Touring
When you watch a major concert tour, you see the lights, the sound, the spectacle. What you don't see is the nightmare of keeping 50+ crew members legally compliant across 20 countries in 90 days.
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Rails 8 for Tour Management: Why We Chose Boring Technology
TourChamp uses Rails 8, SQLite, and Hotwire. Not because it's trendy—because it's reliable, fast, and maintainable by a small team.
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Travel Compliance: Passport & Visa Management
International touring is where logistics meets bureaucracy. One crew member's expired passport, one missed ESTA renewal, one overlooked visa requirement—and suddenly your entire show is at risk.
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The Schengen 90/180 Rule: A Tour Manager's Guide to Not Getting Deported
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