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The honest, build-in-public story of creating VanillaPM — a free, full-PMBOK project-management platform — solo. The architecture, the decisions, the numbers, the wins and the flops.
Three months ago, VanillaPM was an empty Django project. Today it runs the entire PMBOK 8th-edition project lifecycle — Initiating through Closing — with a work breakdown structure, critical-path sche
In my last post I wrote up what it cost to build VanillaPM — a full PMBOK project-management platform — solo in three months. The reaction was kind. But almost every reply circled the same question:
I built a big app the "boring" way: server-rendered Django templates + Alpine.js for interactivity, no SPA. ~50 Django apps, a lot of screens, one developer. Alpine is the perfect amount of JavaScript
"Add AI" is the easiest line item on any 2026 roadmap and the easiest way to ship something worse than nothing. Wire an LLM to a "Generate charter" button, feed it the project name, and it will happil
I spent years as a developer with a tidy issue tracker and a recurring, stupid problem: the things that actually derailed our projects were almost never in it. The database migration that needed a DBA
