Overwhelmed by Overengineering in Project Tracking Tools. The Result? I Built a Lightweight, Local-First Project Tracker.

Hey everyone 👋

I want to give a massive shoutout to AI — it has injected a whole new level of passion and joy into coding for a non-tech guy like me.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been exploring what AI can do. I was learning fast, building small experiments, testing ideas… and then I hit a problem:

The Problem: I tried the usual approaches:

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