I built 128 things with AI. 127 are dead. So I started shipping into real OSS instead.

i built 128 things with AI in four months. then i made an AI dissect every one of them, and the verdict was uncomfortable: good at building, beginner at distribution, and 127 of them are already dead.

so i stopped building app #129.

instead of shipping into the void again, i started shipping into tools people already use. in one day i opened pull requests localizing real open-source dev tools into Japanese — Hoppscotch, Jan, Betterlytics.

here's why it matters. i'm Japanese, Tokyo-based, and a lot of great tools quietly fall apart for Japanese users: half-translated UIs, the Enter key that fires mid-IME-conversion and submits your half-typed text, a /ja locale with nothing routed to it. small, annoying, invisible-in-analytics stuff. exactly the stuff i can actually fix.

then i put a counter online that reads straight from GitHub's API: https://greymoth-jp.github.io/proof-dashboard