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Duolingo's Streak Is Brilliant. That's Why JupiterGoals Won't Have One
Duolingo's streak and its judging owl are brilliant at getting you to open the app. They are much worse at getting you to your goal. Goodhart's law, the what-the-hell effect, and the 3 rules JupiterGoals uses instead.
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Missed a Day and Never Got Back on Track? It's the Plan, Not You
Most goals don't fail on day one. They fail the day after a miss. A simple 3-part model for getting back on track, and why it changed what JupiterGoals is.
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Codex vs Claude Code vs Antigravity CLI: Which AI Coding Agent Is Worth It?
I ran three AI coding harnesses side by side on their entry-level plans. One burned through my limits fastest and still needed the most retries. Here is what I saw, why it happens, and the harness-agnostic setup I'm sticking with.
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Why I Don't Persist Technical Specifications
When refactoring my entire backend and worker architecture to asynchronous serverless tasks, I didn't write a technical spec. Here is why separate technical specs are an anti-pattern, and the 7 homes where technical truth actually lives.
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Faster, Cheaper, and Totally Broken: Why We Abandoned Local AI
Our $0 local SLM stack beat cloud APIs on speed, but failed 68% of pre-launch tests. Here is why we pivoted to single-pass frontier models—and the 3-stage architecture lifecycle.
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The Spec Is Permanent, the Plan Is Garbage
How splitting the what from the how - and draining each plan back into the spec before deleting it - kept our specs true enough for AI agents to build from, and which automated gates actually hold the line.
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Why Static Planners Fail: Building Context-Aware Habit Tracking
How bio-data integration and the Phoenix Protocol are fixing rigid programs like 75 Hard and Couch to 5K.
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Integrating Stripe & Building the Onboarding Phase
How we integrated Stripe to build a privacy-first onboarding experience without storing sensitive payment data.
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Mastering Agent Optimization & Subagents
The meta-game of AI coding: optimizing context windows, utilizing M2M subagent communication, and finding the best models for UI generation.
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Learnings & Struggles with Agent-Based Development
Diving into the technical hurdles of AI coding: from Spring Modulith async struggles to context optimization, Claude Code comparisons, and shared agent directives.
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Transitioning to Agent-Based Development
How we shifted to agent-based development with Antigravity CLI to build faster while keeping our AI costs at zero, plus the reality and struggles of adopting AI.
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How to Build Habits That Actually Stick (Using Gamified Stakes)
Motivation is fleeting. Learn how to use external accountability and optional stakes to ensure you follow through when the novelty wears off.
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Why Traditional Goal Setting Fails (And What to Do Instead)
Setting massive goals often leads to paralysis. Discover why 'tiny habits' are the secret to overcoming the overwhelm trap.
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Books That Shaped the JupiterGoals Philosophy
A look at the foundational literature that inspired the system design behind our AI habit tracker.
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Design Updates & Pivoting
A look behind the scenes at how user feedback shaped the UI, the radar chart, and the core mechanics of JupiterGoals.
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How I Built a $0 AI-Powered SaaS: The 2026 Scale to Zero Blueprint
While building JupiterGoals, I wanted to leverage the power of AI while keeping costs at an absolute minimum ($0 if p...
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Building the JupiterGoals Landing Page: Journey & Tech Stack
Building a landing page for JupiterGoals required choosing the right tool for the job. While there are many ways to s...
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From Idea to Internet Address
In my first post, I made a post to build JupiterGoals - a tool to solve a problem I know intimately. The first step to ...
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My hardest project isn't for a corporation. It's for my life
There's a question that starts as a whisper and grows into a roar over time: **Am I living a life I won't regret?**...
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About Me: The Story Behind JupiterGoals
Hello, I'm Jupiter, and I'm the engineer and founder behind JupiterGoals....
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