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Week 1: Why I Built Zero AI Features for My "AI-Powered" App preview image
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Week 1: Why I Built Zero AI Features for My "AI-Powered" App

The first week of building Mythryx Brain had no AI in it at all. Just infrastructure, a database, auth, and a working frontend. Here's why that was the right call.

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Building with Claude Code: How AI Wrote Most of My App (And Why That's Not the Interesting Part) preview image
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Building with Claude Code: How AI Wrote Most of My App (And Why That's Not the Interesting Part)

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AI wrote most of Mythryx Brain — but the two-chat workflow, Feature Briefs, and scope discipline are what made it work. Here's the full system.

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The Architecture: How I Fit a Full AI App on an $80 Computer (And My Gaming PC Helps) preview image
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The Architecture: How I Fit a Full AI App on an $80 Computer (And My Gaming PC Helps)

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Mythryx Brain runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 for the main app, database, and web server, with heavy AI work offloaded to a home PC's graphics card — six Docker containers, two computers, all on a home network, for about $160 upfront and 75 cents a month.

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Why I'm Building My Own Personal Memory App (And Why the Ones That Existed Keep Disappearing) preview image
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Why I'm Building My Own Personal Memory App (And Why the Ones That Existed Keep Disappearing)

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I built a self-hosted AI memory app on an $80 Raspberry Pi after watching three personal memory apps disappear in 2025. Here's why.

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The Stupid Questions That Got Me Here (And Why You Should Ask Them Too) preview image
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The Stupid Questions That Got Me Here (And Why You Should Ask Them Too)

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I had no experience, no degree, and definitely no idea what I was doing. Here's why that was the best way to start.

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