Field Notes from a Solo Builder — Shipping the Beloved Claude Code Buddy Into the Wild - Part III

Friday's launch felt good. We posted on LinkedIn, Reddit, the GitHub community threads. The repo was already appearing in Google's AI Overview — organic discovery, zero paid distribution. But I'd made a mistake. The Comparison Table Problem While building, I'd come across another community project: Save Buddy. The person behind it had done serious work — reverse engineering the original Buddy implementation, documenting the hidden _react service endpoint Anthropic had been runnin...