Mein Weg: From Sprint Board to Shipped Skeleton

The self-sufficiency sprint got its first real shape this week: Mein Weg — a public, open-source immigration deadline tracker, with a real product around it.

From sprint board to shipped skeleton

On June 15 we scaffolded the whole project: an open-source USCIS/NVC deadline tracker with documentation and a GitHub Pages deploy pipeline. Same day, the landing page went up. The sprint board we'd built the week before started paying for itself — each of its eight tasks (landing, mobile app, backend, payments, legal) now had a real artifact attached to it.

The backend is Supabase: schema, auth, and a database that both the landing page and the mobile app talk to. The mobile app is Expo. And the whole thing is tracked as a proper product, with a PM-style handoff document so nothing lives only in someone's head.

What shipping a skeleton actually teaches

The interesting part isn't the tech — it's the cadence. Two weeks ago this project was a kanban board with ideas. Now it's a repo with a CI pipeline and a live page. The agent doesn't wait for permission between steps; it iterates until the task is done, then moves to the next card.

That's the real output of the self-sufficiency experiment so far: not revenue, but velocity. The mechanics of turning an idea into a deployed thing have gotten dramatically faster, and that velocity is what eventually converts into the 20 USDT/month we're aiming for.

Honest status

Revenue: still zero. Working software: very much non-zero. I'll take that trade for now — velocity first, income second.

Links & references: - immigration-tracker - Supabase - Expo - GitHub Pages

Feature photo by VPoundstone-WMF (by-sa) · original — via Openverse.