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DiveJourney
The global platform for dive travel. Explore 12,000+ dive spots and destination guides, plan trips, log dives, and connect with divers and dive shops wherever you go.
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I’m John Potess. I’m building DiveJourney, Kitecraft, and ShipFoundry while moving around the world. I write about shipping products, working with AI systems, staying human through acceleration, and the strange inner life of building solo.
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Kitecraft
The autonomous AI-ranking operator for solo founders. Kitecraft turns real search demand into the AI-answer queries worth winning, then plans, drafts, and ships the work with your approval.
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ShipFoundry
Product intelligence for agentic builders. ShipFoundry finds the acceleration hiding in your stack, checks what matters against your product and codebase, then hands the wins to your agents to ship.
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Shippopotamus replaced ESLint and Prettier with Oxc, making linting and formatting shockingly faster.
DiveJourney launched a new visual system, community events, and a dive shop directory to make discovery and participation easier.
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I build DiveJourney almost entirely through coding agents now. That made the system around them, including tests, types, linting, CI, review, and QA, one of the most important things I...
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