Money Toolkit: Small Update

First, the personal finance project is coming along nicely. Turns out, AI driven development makes quick work of personal projects.

✅ found a solid tech stack

✅ deployed PoC to a dev environment

✅ bought a domain

✅ setup production Clerk config

✅ setup Vercel production deployment

[TBD] setup production Convex config

[TBD] setup production Stripe config

[TBD] open for sign-up

An Observation

I'm noticing something though. For all of the AI-assisted coding that makes development move so much faster, there is still a decent amount of config, secrets, and dashboard crawling that goes into deploying something tangible.

At least for indie devs and scrappy teams, it's opportunity for config-drift, documentation gaps, and security concerns. A few SKILL.md files won't cover it. MCP can help, but might be a tooling trap. Terraform is powerful, but often requires deploying directly to AWS, GCP, or Azure. There is real velocity gained by using PaaS tools instead of defaulting to "cloud or bare metal".

Many things have an integration/automation, but not everything.

Thoughts for later, I suppose.