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Nathan Zhou

Ship It Tracker

A project tracker that pushes you to ship good-enough work instead of polishing it.

A React app for people who get stuck polishing projects. Each project gets a short list of ship criteria and tasks; the app gives it a shippability score and flags signs of perfectionism, such as tasks added late or work that is nearly done but never shipped. A Moonshot (Kimi) model can add written feedback, and when it isn't available a set of local rules gives the same kinds of feedback.

Status
A local prototype that runs in development. It isn't deployed, and saved projects don't yet survive a page reload.
See what's ready, know when it's good enough, catch perfectionism in the act, and ship.

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How it works§

  1. 01

    The perfectionism check runs locally first. A rule-based analyser adds points for each pattern it finds — more than 15 tasks, 90% done but unshipped, several late-added tasks, more than 30 days active — and an AI score, when there is one, is averaged with it rather than replacing it.

  2. 02

    Once a project is 80% complete, every new task is treated as possible scope creep: the task form warns, and each one flagged takes points off the shippability score, so extra work costs something on screen instead of slipping in unnoticed.

  3. 03

    The Ship it button stays disabled until the score reaches 80: the share of tasks done, plus a bonus for having ship criteria, minus the scope-creep penalty. The bar is good enough, not 100%.

  4. 04

    Every AI call has a fallback. With no key, or when a request fails or times out, it uses local rules or canned answers, and replies are cached for an hour so a repeat view doesn't ask again.

  5. 05

    A project can be linked to a local folder through the browser's File System Access API, with nothing uploaded to a server of its own: it reads only the folder's top level and text files under 50 KB, for a shippability estimate and a code review.

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