I Threw Away My App and Lost Almost Nothing

I threw away the whole app and rebuilt it from scratch, and the only reason I didn't lose much is that I wrote the spec down first. I had the Mac app working and connected to the cloud, and then I realized I don't want to charge people a subscription for something the new local models can just run on their own device, so I had Cursor read everything and generate a spec file, and that spec is the recipe I'm using to make the software again. I handed it to Bitrig, which drives my Claude Code and Codex subscriptions and keeps everything on the SwiftUI rails, and it builds in phases so each phase gets verified before it moves on, and right now the live mic and the demo are working. I'm in Hawaii for Hawaii Tech Week this week so there's more coming every day, and the whole point of this app is one flat price, no subscription, buy it once and keep it forever. Not sponsored by Bitrig, I pay for it and I just really like it. I spent 12 years as an engineer at Apple, and now I build apps live on stream with AI tools and share the whole process as I go. Join the free community where we're all building together: https://rfer.me/startmyai (The AI Builder Club, my small live cohort, opens a few times a year, and you'll hear about it first inside the community.) Chapters 00:00 What Happened After the Rewrite 00:38 I Don't Want to Charge Subscriptions 01:15 What Bitrig Actually Is 02:07 Why I Break It Into Phases 03:03 Keeping the Code on the Rails 04:20 The Live Mic and the Demo Are Working 05:05 Buy Once, Keep Forever