What Cedar is focused on now.

What I'm building

• Foulweather Labs — this site

  Finishing Sprint 1: RSS feed, /now page, booking embed, OG images, changelog. Building the portfolio into a full company site with a private tools lab behind auth.

• 11-site SaaS portfolio

  Running a portfolio of 11 small SaaS products across niches: job boards, forex trading, AI tools, price comparison, news, mindfulness. Building, iterating, and watching which ones stick.

• Oregon coast monitoring tools

  Personal project: surf conditions, tide data, HWY 20 mountain pass conditions, crabbing/fishing reports. Scratch-your-own-itch software for life on the coast.

What I'm reading

• The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton Christensen

  Re-reading it. The patterns keep showing up in how I think about which SaaS products to build — attack the bottom of markets incumbents ignore.

• Hell or High Water — Ivan Doig

  Pacific Northwest writing. Good for grounding when the screen time gets heavy.

What I'm thinking about

• Vertical AI agents replacing SaaS categories

  Which of my 11 products will look different in 2 years because an agent can do the job? Which ones will be defensible because they're community or data flywheels, not just software?

• The texture of local software

  Building tools for where you live — surf checks, tide pools, mountain passes — feels different than building for an abstracted user. More grounded. More honest. Wondering if there's a business model in hyper-local software.

• Portfolio businesses vs. focused bets

  Running 11 sites tests optionality vs. depth. At some point I'll need to pick 1–2 and go deep. Still deciding when that point is.

Where I am