Can I Turn GrowthOS Into a Private Marketing Control Room?
Part 3 of the Hermes build diary: GrowthOS gets real analytics, social intelligence, commercial experiments and a private browser control room.
Build Diary
Behind-the-scenes build diary posts from Old Stack Journal projects, including product decisions, bugs, launches, fixes, and lessons learned while shipping.
How Do I Turn Hermes Into a Useful Marketing Agent?
Part 2 of the Hermes build diary: turning a local agent into GrowthOS with durable context, web research, qualification, and human approval boundaries.
Can I Build a Persistent Local Marketing Agent System With Hermes?
I’m installing Hermes Agent on a local Ubuntu server to see whether it can grow into a persistent marketing agent system for my products.
What’s It Actually Like Building a Football Club Manager With Codex?
Building a football club manager with Codex is fast and productive, but keeping it inside a deliberately simple PHP architecture takes active work.
What Should an n8n Workflow Record After It Runs?
A practical guide to what n8n workflows should record after they run, from triggers and outputs to review status and readable receipts.
TextToDeck Is Live, and the First Sales Are In
TextToDeck turns written posts, changelogs, launches, and updates into short vertical video decks, and the first sales are already in.
TextToDeck: Turning Written Updates Into Short Video Decks
TextToDeck started as a workaround for making Old Stack Journal promo videos with HTML, OBS, and Clipchamp. Now it’s becoming a focused web app for turning written updates…
EVE Profit Routes — Week 4: Adding the Pages That Explain the Tool
Week 4 of EVE Profit Routes adds navigation, About, How-To, and update pages so the app can explain itself, build trust, and feel more complete.
I Plugged My HTML Promo Video Template Into My WordPress Social Desk
I added my HTML promo video template to a WordPress plugin, so each article can generate social drafts and reusable video HTML from one place.
I Got Tired of Fighting Canva, So I Made Social Video Templates with HTML
I got tired of fighting design tools, so I built a simple HTML/CSS workflow for making reusable article promo videos with OBS and Clipchamp.