James Chappel

Running four AI tools means four tools that each know a different half of what you told them. On a team it gets worse, because the half your colleague explained on Tuesday never reaches you at all.

I have been building Second Brain around that problem for a while. Today the team version went live: every member gets a private layer, the team gets a shared one, and recall reads across both. It runs in your own Cloudflare account and it is still MIT.

The one where your mail finally stops introducing itself as a.very.long.address@example.com and starts signing off like a grown-up.

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• Your name on outgoing mail. Skim always had a slot for a display name it just never bothered to fill it. Now it does, per account. And it doesn't ask you: it takes a quiet look at your Sent folder, notices what you actually sign with, and adopts it. Guess once, never again, and never after you've touched the field yourself. (Microsoft OAuth hands the name over at connect time, because it's already right there in the token. Google makes us do it the hard way.) closes #43

• Per-mailbox signatures. One plain-text sign-off per account, inserted into the draft the moment you open the composer so what you see is exactly what goes out, and the copy in IMAP Drafts matches. Comes with the proper -- delimiter pre-typed, which also means the AI co-author and the language detector politely skip over your sign-off instead of studying it. closes #42

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Making a product is one big challenge. But shifting your mindset from building to marketing it might be an even bigger one.
As makers, we spend so much time improving the product. Then comes the question: How do we get people to discover it - and ultimately turn that attention into real customers and sales?
I'm not sure traditional approaches like email marketing and constantly posting on social media are enough anymore. The way people discover products is changing.
So I'm curious:

How do you approach marketing your product?
And for the marketers here:
What would you consider a modern marketing approach in 2026-2027? What would you advise an early-stage founder to focus on?
I'd love to hear different perspectives...