Building Vist
David HeijlA product person learns to code and builds his first SaaS at 48
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 17 | Founded | 7 months ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Kanban Board and Task Dependencies
I’ve been using Vist daily for my own note taking and task management needs on a range of projects. I found that I missed a Kanban view to keep track of what I really needed to do now, what can be postponed, and so on… and so I added it!
V...
Run a Local Coding Model on Your Mac (Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.5, OpenCode, and Vist MCP)
Running a local coding model on a MacBook with a healthy dose of RAM (32 GB in my case) is not a weekend project anymore. It’s an hour at worst.
The models have gotten small enough to fit, fast enough to be useful, and the tooling around t...
My Dev Tools Setup
Quick life update from the solo developer in me (I will spare you the actual private life stuff)… Focusing mostly on the tools side, since that’s what people seem to love to talk and read about, these days!
I’ve built most of Vist using a...
A Better Note Editing Experience
I shipped a batch of editor changes to Vist last week. Nothing earth-shattering - no AI agent that writes your thesis while you sleep, no blockchain… just the kind of quiet improvements you only notice when they stop annoying you. This post...
To Shill or not to Shill, or how I turned to Claude Routines to keep me sane
Every few days another vibe-coded app shows up. Fresh from a Sunday afternoon of Cursor sessions, ready to be shilled... A “what’s your favorite tool for X” question lands on four subreddits in a row, with other empty profile accounts conve...
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48, Product veteran (UX/PM/PO) turned solo founder. Building Vist: The high-speed markdown notes & tasks combo for Claude power users. Writing about the transition from managing products to shipping them (Rails, Postgres, MCP). Building in public.
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