Notes From the AI Shift.

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.

The big bets.

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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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In build

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.

Open product

Live: design partners

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.

Open product

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Music is not an escape from reality. It is one of the ways I reconnect with what makes reality worth living.

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