97: Introducing Crux

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What is Crux and why did Daniel build it?

Daniel Coulbourne 0:06

Sorry I couldn't find the right one.

John Drexler 0:25

John, John, John, John.

Daniel Coulbourne 0:27

Yes, sir.

John Drexler 0:28

So you've really you've really been uh feeling feeling feeling your oats, is that something? Feeling my oats? You've been uh uh sowing wild oats. You've been getting wild with the soundboard the last two episodes.

Daniel Coulbourne 0:45

Yeah, no doubt.

John Drexler 0:46

Yeah. Um I encourage a little playfulness with the soundboard. I would say we gotta keep a handle on it.

Daniel Coulbourne 0:52

It definitely can't get out of hand. Get a little okay. All right, rein it in. Yeah. You're reining me out.

John Drexler 0:57

You need to rein it further in. I think you're Oh, you're saying just don't go much further. Oh you're saying just don't go further.

Daniel Coulbourne 1:02

Yeah. Uh my brother once told me that that uh a boss, uh the the big boss at his company told the boss that was directly above him, uh, give Nate uh a leash, a long leash, but a leash. That sounds about right. Yeah. Um Yeah, so okay. So I we don't know the length of my leash, is that right? Yeah. Um I r uh I got my my mic all set up here uh uh fifteen minutes early and I recorded a notes on play before this. Um and uh and then went to edit it and realized that my mic wasn't plugged in the whole time. So that so I guess we'll do a second take of that. Yeah. Was it good content at least? Yeah, it was fine. I think with the second one'll be better. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, you know, it's uh y I think a lot about uh you remember Merlin's whole thing about like uh you should be very suspicious of anything that causes you to like stop publishing for a long period of time.

Daniel Coulbourne 2:03

Yes you know? Yeah. And I'm like I I was sort of like, uh I think this topic is like pretty good, but maybe not good enough. And then I like didn't publish for like three weeks and was like, ah Uh no, I think we have to like, you know It's gotta get it out. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta un jam the plumbing here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

John Drexler 2:24

Ugh uh I've been side projecting hard since we've been making some stuff. I have been side projecting within an inch of my life, John.

Daniel Coulbourne 2:33

Are you about to become a uh full time uh product guy?

John Drexler 2:37

In in an indie hacker?

Daniel Coulbourne 2:38

Are you gonna are you gonna indie hack your way to ten million ARR? Wow. Imagine the life.

John Drexler 2:44

John. Yeah. No, I I c I honestly can't see a way clear to even uh ten ARR right now. But those are the best side projects. But they're they're they're a blast, both of them. That's not true. Both of them could become products. Describe them. So two things I'm working on. Uh one, uh I've already put out there because I had Taylor forced my hand by offering up a free lap to up Yeah.

Daniel Coulbourne 3:13

What what are the what are the what are the uh uh how does how does it what is that I haven't even really looked at it. I've been not really looking at it. Taylor basically said like

John Drexler 3:21

I'm gonna give out a free MacBook Air to whatever the best thing that goes out on whatever the best thing published on cloud this weekend is. Got it. Okay. And I was like, well, I'm working on something right now. So here we go. Um, and so that thing is crux, which is in my mind cool as hell. It is uh basically like personal software. software that has expanded a little bit to be fairly usable by others, I believe. Yeah. Um but basically I can sort of explain my life a little bit. The way my life works is that I use solo uh by friend of the show, Aaron Francis, to make sure

Daniel Coulbourne 4:06

Not even a sponsor.

How does Crux organize personal software agents and the “lead agent” model?

John Drexler 4:07

Not even and honestly they should Aaron, you owe me two grand. Um I use solo by friend of the show, Aaron's Aaron Francis, to uh run all my agents and stuff in. And uh I'm very opinionated about my agents uh each project having a lead agent. And I only talk to the lead. And then the lead spawns other agents. Yes. That work on things like tickets or bug fixes or whatever, right?

Daniel Coulbourne 4:40

But let's you kinda keep keep the global view.

John Drexler 4:43

Yeah, and I just don't I don't wanna talk to the ticket agents. Sure. You know, if s I want the ticket agents to know that something is important enough that they should surface it to the lead because it demands my attention. Right. And I'll review the PR at the end. I do read the code still. Um but uh generally speaking, I wanna talk to one agent per project.