Everything I shipped in 2 months (honest recap)

I was trying to explain to someone last week what I've been building and I started listing things and kind of shocked myself a little. Not in a braggy way — more like, huh, I guess those 11pm sessions actually add up. So I want to do a real recap because building in public means sharing the actual inventory, not just the wins that feel good to post about.

Here's what's real and shipped or running as of right now. yessieperez.com is live — portfolio, blog, the whole thing. Elevar is built and running — that's my interview prep app, 105 problems, spaced repetition system, dark techie theme, I built it because I was prepping for interviews and nothing I found was exactly what I wanted so I made it. Versus is out — product research tool that scrapes Amazon and TikTok Shop side by side so you can compare what's selling where, I needed that for some research I was doing and figured other people probably do too. Fokas is in progress but it's real — multi-tenant SaaS for coaches and creators, Supabase, Stripe, RLS, the whole architecture is there and it works. Chispeando HQ is my personal content dashboard running locally, that's the one I wrote about last week. Build con Chispa is the free Skool community I started for people who are building alongside everything else, we have real humans in there having real conversations. And then this newsletter, which you are reading right now. Plus some Remotion video experiments — programmatic video with React, I've been playing with that and it's wild how powerful it is, more on that later.

So that's the list. And I want to be honest about what that took, because the social media version of this looks like "I just launched seven products in two months wow" and the real version looks like kids in bed by 9, laptop open by 9:15, working until midnight or 1am, then doing it again the next night and the next night. My husband knows not to talk to me before I've closed all my tabs. I'm tired sometimes. There are nights I sit down to build and I just stare at the screen for 20 minutes because I'm also, you know, a human person. So if you're building and it feels slow or messy, it looks like that from the inside here too, right.

The three things I actually learned from this stretch. One: shipping beats perfecting, every time. Elevar is not perfect. Versus is not perfect. Chispeando HQ has exactly zero users other than me and that's fine. But they exist and I can use them and improve them, which is a completely different position than having a perfect idea in a doc somewhere that I never built. Done and imperfect beats planned and perfect, I've seen this enough times now that it's not a theory for me anymore, it's just true.

Two: small windows compound. I kept thinking I needed a real block of time to make real progress, like I needed a whole Saturday or a vacation day or something. And then I just started doing the 11pm sessions consistently and two months later I have a whole list of things that exist. An hour a night isn't nothing. It's actually a lot if you protect it and you're not spending it scrolling.

Three: building in public keeps you accountable in a way that's hard to manufacture otherwise. When I said on Threads "I'm building Fokas," that created a soft obligation that I didn't have before. I don't want to be the person who announced a thing and then went quiet. That sounds like ego but honestly it's just useful pressure, like telling a friend you're going to the gym at 6am — you're more likely to show up.

What's coming next. For Fokas I'm working toward a real public beta, the multi-tenant architecture is solid and I'm filling out the coach-facing features. I'm also deep in a deeper course — not the $27 kickstart, a full thing, $197, covering everything from project setup to deployment to building real features with AI assistance. And I want to grow Build con Chispa because the conversations in there are already good and I want more people in the room.

Vercel. I deploy everything there and I've been doing it since before it was cool and I will keep doing it because it just works. Free tier is real — free deploys, and every pull request gets its own preview URL automatically, which means I can check what something looks like before it's live without any manual steps. For solo builders and small teams this is honestly one of the best pieces of infrastructure that exists right now. Push to a branch, get a URL, look at the thing, merge if it's good. That's the whole loop. It's fast and it's free until you actually need to scale past the free tier limits, which for where most of us are building right now, you won't.

I want to know what you've shipped — or what you're about to ship. Reply to this email and tell me. Seriously. I read replies, I respond to replies, and I genuinely want to know what people in this newsletter are building. We're doing this together.

Yesenia M. Perez Lead Backend Engineer. Mom of 3. Building at 11pm.

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