Don't sign up for my new app
This isn't clickbait
I’ve been documenting my work obsessively since 2021. Every project, every PR, every win.
Last weekend, that obsession became a product.
I've always cared about more than the code. Data, analytics, user behavior, product decisions. Those were never "not my job." I just never made it official until now.
It made me ask a real question: am I actually capable of building a product end-to-end? Not just the UI. Everything. Design, frontend, backend, database, auth, payments, AI integration, security, performance.
I needed to find out.
So I built Gradon over a weekend.
With Claude Code, from scratch: a minimalist frontend, database, background jobs, API routes, domain and subdomain setup, Gemini integration, and payments. Something I had never done before.
It’s a career tracking app. Because no existing tool ever matched how I actually think about documenting work. So I stopped waiting for someone else to build it.
One intentional decision: I didn’t integrate GitHub yet. Not because I can’t. Because I wanted to see if someone would track their work even without automation. Even if it’s a quick, manual process. Turns out, they will. That tells me something.
Is it ready to sell? No! I’m telling you straight: don’t pay for it right now.
I built this for myself first. To prove something to myself. And it worked.
But day zero already taught me something I didn’t expect.
I shared Gradon in the Small Bets community looking for early feedback. Someone visited the landing page and didn't sign up because they couldn't picture what the product looked like inside. That's not a complaint. That's a product insight. And within 24 hours I had a roadmap change.
I’ve had a changelog page since day one. But this told me I need more: real onboarding, guided flows, zero friction, always a support link visible. User first, from the very first click.
Here’s what’s coming next:
A video on the homepage showing exactly how the product works, updated every time something changes.
Weekly and monthly AI-powered insights with PDF export.
Anonymous peer comparison, so you can benchmark your growth against other engineers.
Deeper career analysis over time.
That’s the Product Engineer mindset I’ve been building toward. And now I have a real product to practice it on.
This is WheyDev. My space to build real software, ship real products in my spare time, and become a better engineer in the process.
Gradon is the first one.
If you want to follow someone building in public, stick around.
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Keep committing,
Eder