Two Products Bootstrapped from Zero to Release in One Day

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0600

December 15th was a bootstrapping day. Two products went from empty directories to tagged releases. Not prototypes. Not “hello world” scaffolds. Actual versioned releases with real functionality.

git-with-intent: 11 Commits Through 7 Phases

git-with-intent is the AI-assisted git workflow tool. On December 15th it went from concept to v0.2.0 across 11 commits.

The phases tell the story:

Phase 1: Core commit analysis engine. Parse git history, extract semantic meaning from diffs.
Phase 2: Intent classification. Map commits to intent categories (feature, fix, refactor, chore).
Phase 3: Workflow templates. Predefined patterns for common git workflows.
Phase 4: CLI scaffolding. Commander.js setup with subcommands for each operation.
Phase 5: Configuration system. User-level and repo-level config with sensible defaults.
Phase 6: Output formatting. Structured output for terminal, JSON, and markdown.
Phase 7: Release prep. Version bump, changelog generation, LICENSE, README.

Each phase was a focused commit or two. No phase depended on a phase that hadn’t been built yet. The ordering was deliberate — you can’t build intent classification without a commit analysis engine, and you can’t build a CLI without knowing what operations you’re exposing.

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Two Products Bootstrapped from Zero to Release in One Day

git-with-intent: 11 Commits Through 7 Phases