Vercel function payload caps and how to ship around them

Branding is not the logo. It's the consistency of every micro-decision: button radius, copy voice, error tone, empty-state warmth. The logo just labels the bag. The branding is what's inside it.

Markdown won because it was always good enough. Not the best at any one thing — never the fastest editor, never the prettiest output, never the most semantically rich. But always close enough that the switching cost killed every alternative.

Branding is not the logo. It's the consistency of every micro-decision: button radius, copy voice, error tone, empty-state warmth. The logo just labels the bag. The branding is what's inside it.

Capture-flow check-list

  • [x] Pulled from Safari via Share Sheet
  • [x] OCR'd a whiteboard photo
  • [x] Dictated three voice memos walking to coffee
  • [ ] Imported the long PDF I was avoiding
  • [ ] Cleaned the inbox folder
bash
# Resize + WebP-encode every PNG in the current folder.
for f in *.png; do
  sips -Z 1280 "$f" --setProperty format webp --out "${f%.png}.webp"
done
Provider Strength Weakness
Claude Long context, instruction following Slow for tiny prompts
GPT-4o Multimodal, fast Drifts on long sessions
Cursor Code-aware ranking Locked to editor
Whiteboard sketch
Whiteboard sketch

What changed

The hardest part of a 1-person startup isn't the work — it's the lack of a forcing function. Without a meeting on Tuesday, nothing has to ship on Monday. The schedule has to come from somewhere, and "because I said so" isn't enough.