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What is a software factory? It is your workflow, your skills, and your domain knowledge, saved in files that the agent reads so the whole process is productized Think about the last app you built. You typed what you wanted, and the agent built it. You did not like...

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The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) ๐Ÿงƒ12 days ago

Shoutout to @brexHQ for helping us spread the sauce!

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Zohar Einy11 days ago

This might work for someone working on their own, but for teams, 5 markdown files does not make a software factory

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Brex12 days ago

the factory analogy is clicking big tme

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Oscar11 days ago

This is exactly how I run Beaver Co. Not code. A stack of markdown files that hold my workflow, my client process, my own voice rules. The agent reads them before it does anything. Basically the files are the product manager. The agent is just the machine that runs them.

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Pratap12 days ago

The five markdown files point to the real asset: the handoff survives when the tool changes. Iโ€™d keep one file for acceptance checks; thatโ€™s where speed usually gets lost once the factory has a few users.

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Yonis D.11 days ago

Iโ€™d call this less a software factory and more a personal harness: the markdown files encode your workflow, while the agent becomes the execution layer.

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SEO Mastery12 days ago

5 md files running the whole thing, clean

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GREG ISENBERG11 days ago

Ras Mic explains so clearly i love it

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catman12 days ago

five markdown files surviving across Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor is the interesting part. which file prevents quality from drifting when the app gets its first real user feedback?

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Its Good12 days ago

We productized our workflow into 5 md files too. One just says don't ship on vibes. The agent keeps deleting that one.

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