2024 — 2026
"The chat you didn't know you desperately needed"
API endpoints shipped: 56
Tests passing: 458
React components built: 31
Durable Objects: 2
Queue consumers: 3
Database tables: 13
WebSocket rooms: ∞ (theoretically)
AI features turned on: 0
Money remaining: −$∞
Then a single Zustand selector bug burned through one million Cloudflare requests in fifteen minutes and we realized the development model was, quote, "unsalvageable."

So we fired everyone. They were already working for free. Some of them weren't even real.
We learned an enormous amount.
We wrote it all down.
We're starting over.
No download. No email. No signup. No service.
— Dan
old.sidefire.net
v1 is still running. it'll stay up as long as doesn't notice we're not paying the bills.
sidefire3 is coming. probably.
watch this space or don't. we're not your mom.