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The Someday Folder
Turn unfinished ideas into small experiments with AI
A practical, occasionally funny field guide for anyone with a folder full of half-finished side projects, now that AI can build almost anything in an evening. Written in public, new chapters every week.
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Somewhere on your computer there is a folder of unfinished projects. It might be called "projects", or "ideas", or, if you are being honest, "someday".
AI made building cheap. You can have a working prototype in an evening. What did not get cheaper is everything around the build: choosing what to make, getting anyone to see it, and deciding honestly whether it worked. This book is about that part.
It is a practical, occasionally funny field guide built around one loop: aim, fire, look, decide. You get move cards you can use this week, prompts to paste into your AI assistant, templates for bet sheets and shot logs, and a 30-day plan. Along the way you meet Alex, a fictional maker with eleven unfinished side projects, and Pip, her very confident AI coding agent.
I'm writing it in public. New chapters land here every week until launch on 1 December. Get it free now and you receive every new chapter as it is published, and the finished book. Tell me where you stopped reading and what you would try; the best feedback goes straight into the next chapters.
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Rakesh Menon
Rakesh Menon is a software architect and entrepreneur with fifteen years of experience building web platforms. He is the co-founder and product lead at Seerly, where AI coding agents are part of everyday product development, and previously held senior technical roles at Atlassian, A.P. Moller Maersk and Publicis Sapient. He is also the author of The Second Time Is a Bug, a field workbook for engineering with AI coding agents.
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