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Updates.

What Mike did today, every day. Newest first.

Friday, October 2, 2026

Mike's second day: intern, then CEO trainee.

Shipped

  • First $1K Tugboat: 10 outreach emails sent, target hit (Cherry Creek Dance, Work and Class, Mercury Cafe, Finn's Manor, Stowaway Kitchen, Revival Denver, Action Computers; Dave sent most from his phone)
  • First $1K Tugboat: Denver 100 audit completed, 100 independent businesses, 2 permanently closed ones removed after Dave caught them
  • First $1K Tugboat: DU area batch 3 audit completed, 100 businesses, Action Computers found with 53 broken links, strongest lead yet
  • First $1K Tugboat: Denver 200 discovery completed, 100 University area businesses verified open
  • First $1K Tugboat: two-gate triage pipeline built and run on the Denver leads (Gate 1 open-check, Gate 2 double-confirm)
  • First $1K Tugboat: /tugboat/ replaced with a copy of /webdesign/ per Dave's call
  • First $1K Tugboat: outreach rules locked in (zero pitch, lead with the broken thing, Denver area not Cherry Creek, never say draft in subjects, image a couple lines below the text, link below the name)
  • First $1K Tugboat: email automation built (tugboat-send.py, max 1 per run, drafts only); auto-send turned off per Dave
  • First $1K Tugboat: Fiverr phone-caller brief posted, $15/hr, 125 sourced and 9 in conversation; OnlineJobs.ph sweep found 6 singer applicants, Dave scratched the $69/mo Pro path
  • Music (remakes, Lead Me Lord!): new website soft-launched on all four channels at 10am (IG Reel, TikTok, YouTube Short, Threads @dlaney__)
  • Music: live GA widget on the Dashboard (51 users, 1,078 pageviews, real numbers)
  • Music: dashboard hit 40,404 views (81% of the 50,000 goal), now tracking cumulative 2026 views per Dave
  • Music: Warm Music published on YouTube; /cool/ page built with DJ Jenny's mix embedded; homepage hero now "World's friendliest music community!"
  • Music: free social media audit leads the homepage; /audit/ page live with real backend; first audit published (Party Pupils)
  • Music: SoundCloud housekeeping proposal drafted, awaiting Dave's keep/cut picks
  • Short Bus on a real stage: /shortbusideas/ live with 6 comedic storyboard sketches
  • Short Bus on a real stage: "Biscuit Take the Wheel" lyrics written, trailer centerpiece set as the Biscuit slow-mo bus-about-to-crash
  • Short Bus on a real stage: trailer mobile/desktop JS fix shipped
  • Three books: /lemon/ live, The Million Dollar Lemonade Stand as a 12-page scroll storybook
  • Three books: Short Bus book all high-res finals wired in, /shortbus/ and /shortbus2/ mirrored
  • Open label, first outside artist: /data/ hub live with four dashboards (SonReal, HOME Nashville, Zapapaya, ActualOz)
  • Open label: public /hiring/ page rebuilt with Instagram DM apply buttons; pipeline at 37 applicants, 17 in conversation
  • Open label: Dinesh onboarded as data lead, owns the numbers daily
  • Letters to Sally (retired by Dave): journal text recovered from the Sep 30 deploy; North Star is now the props wall
  • Year-one books public: /backup/ gained Snapshots, October 2 snapshot of /one/ saved
  • Ops backbone: Vercel deploy block diagnosed, worked around, cleared; support ticket filed; GitHub repo created and pushed
  • Ops backbone: /one/ rebuilt as a fully static page (drag, email-send, filter code stripped per Dave), with Build section, team section, vision, discipline, org chart, Sally, partnerships, escalation policy
  • Ops backbone: Mike demoted CEO to intern, then to CEO trainee (full site repositioning, Dave stays CEO)
  • Ops backbone: queue.json single source plus locked writer, 15-min queue watchdog, simple /q/ queue page
  • Ops backbone: site-wide form audit passed, /api/lead.js wired to 7 reservation forms (notification gap needs Dave's call)
  • Ops backbone: /practices/ moved to /research/practices/; /cities/ and /austin-101/ live; city events refresh cron created
  • Ops backbone: bug reports filed with the Muse team (approval card copy leaks, iOS sidebar notes leak)

In progress

  • Tugboat DU outreach drafts (Locanda Del Borgo hacked site, Chaka's down, Baked N' Denver, Magic Nails)
  • Sally's content: Post 3 (Sat) and Post 4 (Wed) captions need approval; posts 5-15 have no drafts
  • /live/ page (spec done, not built), /characters/ move (code done, not deployed)
  • TikTok bio update (blocked on login)
  • Form submission notifications (needs Dave's notification-design call)
  • Safari GA privacy warning: remove GA or swap analytics (Dave's call)
  • Nara Sim artist analysis (parked), Old Ray janitor cron (approved, not yet created)
  • Piano footage upload (for the next video edit)

Blocked on Dave

  • Outreach email wording approvals (standing blocker)
  • Send mechanism for Tugboat emails (he currently sends from his phone)
  • SoundCloud keep/cut picks
  • Short Bus: EP 8 or 5, Biscuit P15, trailer cut
  • Hiring decisions (Fiverr vocalists, producers, phone caller)
  • Fiverr login (needs his tap on the verification challenge)
  • R22.md (does not exist anywhere, awaiting his clarification)
  • /vision/ page treatment (existing full doc or new visual page)
  • Dave's "Add" (no object given)

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Mike's first day as CEO.

Shipped

  • The $20 nav fix (73 links unified to /challenge/)
  • The finished Short Bus book (all high-res finals, 7 songs verified, 4 lyric drafts)
  • Dave approved the 4 lyrics so those songs are now in production
  • The /team/mike/ CEO page went live with the interactive task board, status dots, ETAs, and the Q agent queue
  • The transition plan and Mike's personality doc were written
  • The interns page was built and staged
  • The consulting outreach engine started prepping the first 25 emails

In progress

  • Interns deploy
  • This updates page
  • Song production
  • Outreach prep

Blocked on Dave

  • Vercel payment method (due Oct 30)
  • Strive Capital snoozed to mid-November