building in public

10 things I learned from CarouselBot’s beta testers

And what this means for the Roadmap

Jan 24 • Karen Spinner

I overhauled my website with a team of Claude Code subagents

Did it actually work?

Jan 3 • Karen Spinner

I built a Chrome extension to manage hundreds of scattered AI prompts

My resolve to get organized shall not waver.

Dec 27, 2025 • Karen Spinner

I built a Chrome extension to manage my 1,200+ Substack subscriptions

Get it free or build your own

Dec 13, 2025 • Karen Spinner

10 super helpful things I learned from beta testers this week

How user feedback is helping me shape the future of Future Scan

Nov 22, 2025 • Karen Spinner

I collected abstracts from 11,303 recent research papers on AI/ML

Then I used them to build a trend-spotting prototype

Nov 14, 2025 • Karen Spinner

I shut down my AI-powered startup. What went wrong?

Hint: It wasn't the AI.

Nov 7, 2025 • Karen Spinner

I used machine learning to make sense of 39,000 Substack articles

Using semantic search and clustering algorithms to understand what's trending on Substack right now

Oct 4, 2025 • Karen Spinner

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