How I Set Up a Dark Factory to Produce a First MVP of OpenLingo
My daughter wanted to learn Croatian. Duolingo did not offer it, and I had just read about dark factories. Six days later a queue of AI workers had built the engine of a local-first language app through 26 merged pull requests, code and planning documents alike, and the Trello board that runs the whole thing was on version 20. This is the setup, the evolution toward a stable self-gating board, and everything that broke along the way.
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