What was claimed, and what we checked.

Spent the week on data-accuracy edge cases. Boring, load-bearing. An attribution tool that's wrong once is dead.

Second-city pilot is open. Also: started a first conversation with a hardware partner about co-designing the next metering unit. Early, but the shape is there.

Reworked the checkout so a student goes from click to in-cohort role in under a minute. Onboarding friction is where creator tools go to die.

Prototyped the kill-list view — 'cut this, keep that'. The owner I showed it to asked to forward it to a friend. That's the report that spreads.

Showed it to two creators. One said 'so I don't have to leave Discord?' three times. Yes. That's the pitch.

First paying design partner: a physio clinic on $49/mo. Not the money — the fact that someone chose to pay rather than churn is the only signal that counts right now.

Tainan cohort signed a letter of intent for the second-city pilot. Different grid operator, so interconnect is a fresh fight — but demand travels.

Crossed 1,000,000 cumulative kWh tracked. Number goes up, but the thing I care about is that zero members have asked 'where did my credit go' this month. The accounting is holding.

Prototype layers a paid cohort on top of a server you already run. No migration, no 'move your community'. That constraint is the entire bet.

First co-op is officially live in Taichung — 12 households on one array. Local paper picked it up. The founders of the building association are now our loudest advocates.

Rebuilt the onboarding after watching a real owner get stuck twice. If it takes more than five minutes to first insight, we've lost them.

First end-to-end connection works — Meta and Google spend in one place. Ugly, but real numbers flowing. The demo writes itself now.

Hard week. Our metering integration broke twice and a co-op member churned. Wrote down exactly what failed so it can't happen at the next site.

Twelve creator interviews. Every one of them already sells something to their Discord — via a Google Form, a Stripe link, and manual role-granting at midnight. The pain is the plumbing.

MVP is live for the pilot group. Every member can open the app and see which kWh came off their own panels vs the shared array. Watching someone see their first credit land is the whole job.

Ten interviews with owners spending on ads. Every single one described the same moment: opening GA4, not understanding it, and closing the tab. That tab-close is the product opportunity.

Ran the demand survey properly this time. 40 owners, structured questions. The wedge is real: people don't distrust solar, they distrust the paperwork. That's the thing we're actually killing.

Week 1. Knocked on 40 doors in Beitun. The pitch that landed: 'your roof already makes power — we just make sure you get paid for every watt of it.' 31 said tell me more.