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Building Dot Connector

A solopreneur built Dot Connector, a local app that uses Claude to surface non-obvious connections, contradictions, and open loops from captured notes. The app runs on Express with vanilla JS, sends captures to Anthropic's API for auto-tagging and periodic deep sweeps, and costs under $1/month for personal use.

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a local, Claude-powered brain-assistant for solopreneurs

I kept losing good ideas — not because I forgot to write them down, but because nothing ever

went back and connected them. A task on Monday, an idea on Wednesday that was secretly the

same problem, a question on Friday that contradicted something I'd decided two weeks earlier.

All of it just... sat there.

So I built Dot Connector: a small local app where every capture is a "dot," and every few

captures, Claude reviews the stream against a standing memory and surfaces three things —

non-obvious connections between notes, contradictions with what you said before, and open

loops you haven't closed yet.

The architecture is deliberately simple. It's Express + vanilla JS, no build step, no

account system. Every capture gets a cheap, fast Claude call for auto-tagging. Every 3rd

capture triggers a deeper "sweep" — a second Claude call that looks at recent captures

alongside standing memory and open loops, and returns structured updates: new memory facts,

dot-connects, contradictions, and open-loop resolutions.

Why local-first. no server of my own, notes never leave your machine except the direct calls to Anthropic's API, bring-your-own API key so there's no subscription — you pay

Anthropic directly, typically well under $1/month for personal use.]

Its just a steal

one-time $29 download

All info and download get it here:

https://dot-connector.eu

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