#016: My Personal Software Journey: Self-Hosting Agent-Built Apps on a Mac mini

I’ll bet that anyone who works with or actively tinkers with agentic AI has already had their “personal software aha moment” - the moment some internal tool or app they’ve been dreaming about for years materialized in 30 minutes after they hesitantly typed up the idea with 99% skepticism and 1% curious hope. And voila - it actually worked (wtf?!).My own “aha moment” came pretty soon after ChatGPT came out in 2022 when I vibe-coded (which wasn’t yet a coined term) a macOS native app for tracking the status of your immigration cases and actually sold it for a few years on the Mac App Store (back when you had to tell ChatGPT to “keep going” after it would cut off long responses and paste it back and forth to Xcode). The addiction set in quickly, and soon I was churning out apps at work and at home non-stop.There’s an interesting debate on whether personal software will ever become a mainstream activity or stay a niche prosumer activity. What I can say with conviction is - it’ll remain…