I Built A Thing: And Then Big Tech Came Onto the Scene
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I spent five months building a privacy-first assistant for caregivers and busy families. On September 18th, Google and Meta both shipped something adjacent, and the day after that I wrote the runbook to tear my own infrastructure down. Here is what I got right, what I got wrong, and why the competition turned out to be the least interesting part of the story.