Building alone means the entire project history lives in one brain. Mine. Three months in I started noticing I was making decisions I'd already made, forgetting the reasoning from week two, rereading my own notes trying to reconstruct why I'd gone in a direction.
Rewind was quietly solving this. I didn't notice until it was gone.
Tried Granola for call notes. Clean, works, not the problem I was trying to solve.
Tried Fabric for a few weeks. Interesting approach, ingests content from a bunch of sources. Setup was more involved than I wanted. The retrieval is decent. Didn't feel like it understood my project context the way Rewind did.
Screenpipe I've stuck with for passive capture. Runs locally, has been reliable. The weak point is exactly what you'd expect: it captures, it doesn't act.
Invoko for active moments. When I'm deep in a debugging session and have four things open, I can ask it to pull a coherent picture. Fast. Useful. Completely useless for anything that happened when I wasn't looking.
The problem with building solo is that you need the passive layer to work. The active layer only helps when you remember to use it. Still haven't solved this properly. Anyone else building alone with something better?