It was 8pm on a Tuesday, and I was staring at my screen doing absolutely nothing productive.
Not because I had nothing to do. The opposite. I had *everything* to do.
Write blog posts. Create videos. Finish building the app. Build an audience. Find testers. Figure out a launch plan. Learn marketing. Make a website. Write copy. Set up analytics. Create social media content. Pick a pricing model.
The list didn't have an end. Every time I crossed something off mentally, three more things appeared. And somewhere in the middle of all that, the thing I was actually supposed to be doing — launching Floudea.ai, a note-taking app I've been building for months — felt further away than ever.
I sat there, overwhelmed to the point of paralysis. The honest thought running through my head was: *I genuinely don't know what to do next.*
So I did the most 2025 thing possible. I opened ChatGPT and started typing.
Agent 1: The therapist-planner
I didn't ask ChatGPT a technical question. I basically vented.
I described how overwhelmed I felt. How I had no idea how to find testers for my app. How everything felt urgent and nothing felt organized. How my head was full of tasks with no structure, no priority, no timeline.
It was less "help me with my startup" and more "help me not lose my mind."
And we just… talked. For about half an hour. Back and forth. Me describing the chaos, ChatGPT helping me sort through it. Asking me questions. Helping me figure out what actually mattered versus what just felt urgent.
By the end of the conversation, ChatGPT had given me something I desperately needed: a structured directory. A starting point. Not a finished plan — but folders, starter files, a skeleton of what needed to happen. A shape for the shapeless mess in my brain.
It wasn't perfect. But it was *organized*. And when you're drowning in overwhelm, organized is everything.
Agent 2: The builder
Here's where it gets interesting.
I told ChatGPT that I'd be using Claude Code as my development assistant. So the materials were structured with that in mind.
I opened my terminal, navigated to the folder ChatGPT had created for me, and started Claude Code. I explained the situation — here's my app, here's these starter materials, here's what I'm trying to do.
And Claude Code did something smart: instead of working in isolation, it went straight into my app's directory. It analyzed the actual product — the code, the features, the structure — and started generating marketing materials based on what the app actually does. Not generic startup advice. Actual copy, actual messaging, actual content grounded in the real product.
It used its understanding of marketing to create materials that I never could have written myself. Not because I'm not creative, but because I'm too close to it. I've been deep in the code for months. Claude Code could step back and see the product the way a user would.
Agent 3: The writer
And now there's a third agent in the mix. Me talking to Claude in a chat window, right now, creating this blog post.
So let me be clear about what's happening: I'm a solo builder launching an app for the first time, and tonight I have three different AI agents helping me with three different things.
ChatGPT helped me think and plan — it was the conversation I needed to get unstuck.
Claude Code is in my codebase, building marketing materials that actually reflect what the product does.
Claude (in chat) is helping me write content, create posts, and document this whole journey.
Three agents. Three different strengths. One very overwhelmed human trying to hold it all together.
Why I'm telling you this
I could have waited to write my first real update until everything was polished. Until I had a pretty launch page and a confident message and a "5 things I learned" thread that makes me look like I know what I'm doing.
But that would be a lie.
The truth is that right now, at 8pm on day one, I don't have it figured out. My head is a mess. My to-do list is terrifying. I'm using AI tools not because I'm some tech visionary, but because I literally cannot do all of this alone and I don't have a team.
And I think that's actually the story worth telling.
Because there are a lot of people right now sitting on ideas they want to build. And the gap between "I have an idea" and "I launched a product" feels enormous. It feels like you need to know everything first. Have a plan. Have experience. Have it together.
I don't have it together. I'm figuring it out one conversation at a time — sometimes with humans, sometimes with AIs, sometimes with myself at 8pm wondering what I've gotten into.
But the app exists. It works. And tonight, despite the overwhelm, I made progress. Messy, imperfect, stitched-together progress. But progress.
That counts.
What's next
Over the coming weeks, I'm looking for 10 beta testers for Floudea.ai. If you take notes for work and you've ever wished your note-taking app understood how you actually think — I'd love to hear from you.
And I'm going to keep writing about this. All of it. The 8pm panic moments and the breakthroughs. The things that work and the things that spectacularly don't.
If you want to follow along — or if you've felt this same overwhelm about something you're building — stick around. We're figuring this out together.
This is part of an ongoing series documenting the launch of Floudea.ai — a note-taking app built by a first-time builder with a lot of help from AI. Follow along on LinkedIn for shorter updates, or subscribe here for the full story.