Last Time Developing Mushin

Okay, I've been working a lot on Mushin (is a focus-first productivity system i'm building. You work, AI organizes) lately, always in my free time and on weekends. I finished some crucial functionalities that were important to me to have before launch.

But something that was catching up with me was the cost of keeping Mushin running. I had it on DigitalOcean and both the $ and the time to maintain the server were adding up. Although I enjoy configuration, Linux, etc., the time spent securing and monitoring was too much. So I decided yesterday, December 25th, and today the 26th, to migrate everything to the cloud, taking advantage of Free Tiers as a first step.

So I went from a droplet on DigitalOcean to a serverless/PaaS setup on Cloudflare, Railway, and Supabase :)

Migrating from a traditional VPS to something more modern like PaaS/Serverless was much simpler than I initially thought. It didn't take me that long and the biggest challenge was understanding that for specific extensions I needed to work with Railpack on Railway to get my backend running correctly.

As for features, I built 2 new ones this past month...

Kioku: it will be your memory... you can leave all your reminders here and Mushin will notify you when it's time to complete them. It happens to me a lot that I have future activities, recurring ones... so this is excellent for jotting them down and forgetting about them... the system notifies me in advance.

Along with Kioku, I also worked on Mirai, which is the future, and it's a small glimpse of what's happening with Mushin behind the scenes and the internal chaos you no longer have to worry about—how it broke down projects, epics, which tasks are pending, which ones you should focus on after finishing your session, all organized automatically with future dates...

Mirai is the feature I'm spending the most time on since I still feel I can optimize and improve the deductions it makes, how it relates all the work, and how Mushin learns from your daily work. It's the brain, and this is where I'm dedicating the most time to get it to a level I'm comfortable with.

We're still in closed alpha, accepting few early access requests. Currently there are 3 users giving me recurring feedback, and with that I keep improving the features I've already released.

Now let's see how performance and consumption look on the new architecture. The good news is that downtime was practically 0 :) :)

See you in the next post.