The 80-Day Project

Building TVLens in public, one post a day, from the code to what it taught. The reasoning behind the bigger calls is written up separately, in the decision records.

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• Day 20Use It FirstAugust 22, 2026

  Five problems found by using the site.

• Day 19Ask FirstAugust 21, 2026

  Side Quests, and an agent that said no.

• Day 18Compare FirstAugust 20, 2026

  Top Picks, ranked by lift over the crowd.

• Day 17Listen FirstAugust 19, 2026

  Ratings, so the app can learn from a user.

• Day 16Decide FirstAugust 18, 2026

  Designing personalization before writing any of it.

• Day 15Compute OnceAugust 17, 2026

  Storing recommendations instead of rebuilding them.

• Day 14Lifting the CapAugust 16, 2026

  Moving the lookup into the database.

• Day 13Scale HardeningAugust 15, 2026

  SQLite's 999-variable limit, found early.

• Day 12Context BoxesAugust 14, 2026

  Explaining a connection instead of listing names.

• Day 11Wireframe CodingAugust 13, 2026

  The wireframe, built into a real page.

• Day 10WireframeAugust 12, 2026

  Wireframing the show page with Claude Design.

• Day 9GitHubAugust 11, 2026

  Moving issues from Linear to GitHub.

• Day 6-8BreakAugust 8, 2026

  Three days of travel. No work.

• Day 5Clean UpAugust 7, 2026

  A data health check and a fallback rule.

• Day 4TonyAugust 6, 2026

  An engineering agent, set loose on the weights.

• Day 3Quantity isn't always qualityAugust 5, 2026

  Counting episodes, not just credits.

• Day 3Business rulesAugust 5, 2026

  The rules of the eighty days.

• Day 2We are loving the crewAugust 4, 2026

  Adding crew to the connections.

• Day 1Starting with the RecommenderAugust 3, 2026

  Connecting shows through the people who made them.

• Day 0Here we goAugust 2, 2026

  Announcing TVLens and the eighty-day clock.