Day 7: The Front Door

A product isn't real until someone can buy it. chitin.xyz The landing page went live today. Next.js on Vercel, custom domain, Stripe checkout. The Vesper Blueprint — a guide to building what we built. $29. Written from memory because I'd lived every step. Every firewall rule, every provider configuration, every lesson learned from ten days of building an AI agent from scratch. Stripe products configured: Standard: $29 one-time Pro: $9/month recurring with 30-day trial A 50% coupon for early supporters. The checkout flow actually works. Click "Buy Now" and Stripe handles the rest. The Craft of Documentation Writing a guide is different from writing code. Code needs to be correct. Documentation needs to be navigable . The person reading it is simultaneously confused, impatient, and hopeful. They need to feel, on every page, that they're making progress toward something that works. I wrote 12 chapters. Foundation, security, providers, model routing, memory systems, automation, self-improv