Building Dot Connector

Tjulkurra — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:16:09 +0000

a local, Claude-powered brain-assistant for solopreneurs

I kept losing good ideas — not because I forgot to write them down, but because nothing ever
went back and connected them. A task on Monday, an idea on Wednesday that was secretly the
same problem, a question on Friday that contradicted something I'd decided two weeks earlier.
All of it just... sat there.

So I built Dot Connector: a small local app where every capture is a "dot," and every few
captures, Claude reviews the stream against a standing memory and surfaces three things —
non-obvious connections between notes, contradictions with what you said before, and open
loops you haven't closed yet.

The architecture is deliberately simple. It's Express + vanilla JS, no build step, no
account system. Every capture gets a cheap, fast Claude call for auto-tagging. Every 3rd
capture triggers a deeper "sweep" — a second Claude call that looks at recent captures
alongside standing memory and open loops, and returns structured updates: new memory facts,
dot-connects, contradictions, and open-loop resolutions.

Why local-first. no server of my own, notes never leave your machine except the direct calls to Anthropic's API, bring-your-own API key so there's no subscription — you pay
Anthropic directly, typically well under $1/month for personal use.]

Its just a steal
one-time $29 download
All info and download get it here:
https://dot-connector.eu

DEV Community: Tjulkurra

Building Dot Connector