💡 Discover insights on life, work, personal growth, tech, & more from Naya Moss

🗺️Hey friends,

It's been a minute. Like, a real minute.

The last time I wrote to you, I was starting off my 30 Projects in 30 Weeks challenge. Since then, I've basically been living in my code editor, shipping something new every single week. Fifteen weeks in, and I'm still going. I've missed writing to you though. So let's catch up properly.

What I've been building

A lot. Probably too much. But here are some highlights:

Sentio is probably the one I'm most proud of. It's a voice notes app I've wanted for years. You know that feeling when you're walking or driving and have a thought you want to capture, but by the time you get somewhere to write it down, it's gone? Sentio fixes that. You record your thoughts, and AI transcribes and transforms them into whatever you need: summaries, to-do lists, meeting notes, blog drafts, tweets, journal entries. I built it for iOS, Android, macOS, and web. On-device transcription means no waiting and no internet required. You just think out loud. Some of you have been asking about this one. It's coming very soon to founding members first.

💻You Need A Personal Website has been getting a lot of interest too. It's a resource site making the case for why everyone should have their own corner of the internet, with guides, inspiration, and tools to get started.

 🗺️ She Travels With Uma is a sanctuary for the solo female traveler. It includes SafeTravels AI for real-time safety scores on neighborhoods, hotels, and routes, plus curated destinations, a travel journal, and a community of women who get it.

💼 Interview Buddy helps you prep for job interviews using your resume and accomplishments to generate STAR-driven questions and practice answers.

🎥 MockupStudio is a screen recording and iPhone device mockup tool with motion blur, webcam overlay, and auto-zoom. I built it in both Swift and Electron because I couldn't decide which I liked better.

 🎙️PodStudio AI lets you upload a photo of any room and transform it into a podcast studio setup. Just a fun one I built in a little over an hour.

And there's much more, including Cadrae, Enso, Veritas, LaunchKit, NextKit, and several developer tools. You can see the full list at nayamoss.com/projects. I’ll share more details in the next couple of issues based on interest and requests.

AI has been incredible lately

I have to talk about the AI moment we’re in right now. Claude Opus 4.5 became my daily driver for coding. The reasoning and nuance are on another level. It handles complex tasks like it actually understands what I’m trying to do. I used it for almost everything I built. Now that the preview is over, I’m honestly grieving a bit.

We’re in a sweet spot where AI is powerful enough to be truly useful, but still early enough that most people have not learned how to work with it well yet. That gap is exactly what I want to help people close.

📝 Recent Writing

Here’s what I’ve been publishing lately — reflections, frameworks, and experiments worth exploring:

🧘🏾 Building Software by Describing Feelings

How Claude Opus 4.5 changed my development workflow by letting me describe what I want in feelings instead of technical specs.

🧑🏾‍🚀 First Impressions of Google Antigravity

My experience using Gemini 3 Pro in Google Antigravity, especially how it surprised me with security and QA capabilities.

🌧️ Today's Thought on Slowing Down

A reflection on how living in Europe taught me to stop treating every inconvenience like an emergency.

🥲 How I Stopped Letting Neon Eat My Compute For Breakfast

 Practical lessons from debugging wasteful Neon compute costs by fixing dev database usage, caching strategies, and background polling.

 📆 First Five Takeaways from AI Engineer Code Summit 

My biggest learnings from the conference, including why skills beat agents and how the "dumb zone" at 40% context capacity changes everything.

🌲Latest from Namos Labs

If any of this resonates, if you've been following along, tried one of my apps, or you're curious about what I'm building, check out the Namos Labs Founding Membership.

Here is the structure:

• $99 and $249 are the one year pilot program

• $499 is lifetime access, limited to 25 people at a time

The pilot program gives you one year of access so I can learn what people actually use and what it costs to run as I keep shipping. The lifetime tier is a small, controlled experiment, and I am keeping it capped.

If you’ve ever thought “I’d actually use that” when I share something, this is your way in.Check out the membership ->

Two weeks left in the year. You’ll get one more newsletter from me, and one direct email for members. Let’s finish strong.

Remember to always be kind! 🌈

Best,

Naya

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