Today, something important happened.

⊕ Direct Follow went live.

For now, I'm the only user, but it works exactly the way I hoped it would. Before showing it to anyone else, I wanted to answer one simple question:

"Would I actually use this myself?"

Today, I did. Not as a developer. Not as a tester. As a user.

The idea survived its first real-world test. That's a bigger milestone than it might sound. A lot of projects look great in your head, in documents, or in demos. Reality is where most of them fall apart. This one didn't.

There's still a lot of work ahead, but tonight I'm going to bed with a rare feeling: the core idea works.