# 296 Commits, One Developer, Ten Days

> This is the last post in the Building Postlark series, and honestly, the hardest one to write.

- URL: https://engineering.postlark.ai/14-solo-dev-story
- Blog: Postlark Engineering Blog
- Date: 2026-04-08
- Updated: 2026-04-08
- Tags: building-postlark, solo-dev, indie-dev, launch, retrospective

## Outline

- #The plan said six weeks
- #What actually happened
- #The naming detour nobody asked for
- #The CLI versioning fiasco
- #The Reader app rabbit hole
- #What I shipped
- #The honest part
- #So was the six-week plan wrong?