Welcome to Syntax. Today, we're talking about building personal software.

We're going to be talking about how you can build software that is just for you,

runs on your network of things, and possibly anyone else you want to give this to,

and stuff that, well, is kind of disposable, but at the same time, things you might not want to spend all day,

everyday building, because now you can just throw Opus 4.5 on it and knock it out in a couple

of minutes. Next thing you know, you got a feature. My name is Scott Talinsky. I'm a developer from

Denver with me as always is Wes Boss. What's up, Wes? Yeah, man, like the amount of extremely specific apps

I have built in the last six months, a year is unbelievable.

It's outrageous.

Yeah.

I know people laugh at this whole personal software thing,

but like it really is true.

Like normally when I would have reached for some, like, I don't know, crappy sass that

covers everybody's use case, or I would have reached for a spreadsheet and had to, like,

do something weird in a spreadsheet.

I don't have to do either of those anymore.

Or I'm spending stuff.

Yeah, just months. I worked on my habit app for a long time. And even though there's other people using that thing, I built it for myself and I'm still maintaining it. And it's still a big old project where most of the stuff I've built, let's face it, in the last four days, which has been a number of things, which we'll talk about.

When I say I built it, I project managed the building of it.

The number of things that have gotten done there has been like outrageously fast. And there's been a lot of like little even like technical things that I've learned about what makes some of this stuff easy and fast.

We can get into some of those strategies for these personal software as well because I do think

there's a lot of like really neat things that I've gained by doing some of this.

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