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I Shipped 15 Projects in One Weekend — Here's How AI Changes Everything

#buildinpublic #ai #automation #opensource

The Weekend

I sat down Friday morning to fix an audio issue on a YouTube video. 48 hours later, I had shipped more than most teams do in a sprint. Here's the full list.

What I Built (Friday-Saturday)

BitchX 2.0 — Modernized IRC Client

  • Forked the legendary 1995 IRC client that's been dead since 2004
  • Fixed TLS 1.3, patched a remote DoS CVE, hardened 57+ buffer overflows
  • Built Claude AI directly into it (/AI command — 7 subcommands)
  • Added 30 new commands: /CRYPTO for live prices, /RAINBOW text, /GUARD channel protection, /MASSOP, /KICKBAN, and more
  • Submitted PR to the original repo, posted to Smithery
  • GitHub: github.com/prime001/BitchX

Freedom Stack — NFT Card Game

  • Designed 207 unique cards with 35 named characters (real people)
  • Built a playable browser game engine (FastAPI + vanilla JS)
  • AI opponent with 3 difficulty levels
  • Balance-patched by 4 AI agent reviewers
  • Printable prototype deck ready for playtesting
  • Live at primefi.net/play

PrimeTrader V2 — Stock Scanner

  • Added multi-asset alert consumer to existing BTC trading bot
  • 109-ticker watchlist scanner with hourly cron during market hours
  • TradingView webhook → enrich with technicals → Claude AI analysis → Discord trade cards
  • Market regime detection (BULL/CAUTION/BEAR via SPY+QQQ)

HumanRail MCP Server

  • Built and deployed an MCP server for my SaaS (human-in-the-loop for AI agents)
  • Published on Smithery with 83/100 quality score
  • Live endpoint at humanrail.dev/mcp

erikandersonbook.com Blog System

  • 8 SEO blog posts with auto-publish pipeline
  • Wednesday publish → Thursday Dev.to crosspost (automated via cron)
  • Contact form with backend + Discord notifications

Other Wins

  • Contact forms on 5 websites (erdtreeforge, erikandersonbook, humanrail.dev, humanrail.com)
  • Buy Me a Coffee on erdtreeforge.com (9,870 monthly visitors!)
  • Fixed YouTube Shorts upload pipeline (OAuth token refresh)
  • Ran full portfolio rebalancer analysis (6 AI agents analyzing positions)
  • Published 2 Dev.to articles
  • Updated YouTube video description template

The Infrastructure

All of this runs on two servers in my house:

  • Neo (i7, 32GB) — Python projects, cron jobs, Claude Code
  • Morpheus (6 cores, 17GB) — Docker workloads, Plex, game servers

40 cron jobs fire daily. Zero cloud bills.

What Made This Possible

AI-assisted development changes the math. I'm not writing every line of code — I'm designing systems, making architecture decisions, reviewing output, and steering. The AI handles the implementation at a speed no human can match alone.

But here's the thing people miss: the AI doesn't have the ideas. It doesn't know what to build, or why, or for whom. It doesn't know that BitchX was legendary, that financial literacy needs a card game, or that IRC could be the backbone of an AI agent economy. The human provides the vision. The AI provides the velocity.

The Numbers

What's Next

  • Freedom Stack physical card deck on Amazon
  • BitchX distribution (snap/apt packaging)
  • PrimeTrader scanner tuning (Monday's market open is the real test)
  • More card art generation for the NFT collection
  • That YouTube video about AI agents paying Bitcoin

The Point

If you're a solo founder wondering whether AI changes the game — it does. Not because it replaces you, but because it removes the bottleneck between having an idea and shipping it. The ideas are still yours. The speed is new.

I build systems that run without me. If that resonates, let's connect.

What did you ship this weekend?

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