🛡️ Ben + Rin — Master Board

One thing at a time.
Last updated: Feb 11, 2026 • 12:07 AM UTC

🔮 CURRENT FOCUS: Orderacle

Demand Intelligence for Local Game Stores
Phase 1 — Now
Prove to Ourselves
Phase 2
First Paying Customer
Phase 3
Sales Funnel
🔮 Orderacle — Demand Intelligence 🎯 Maniacal Focus
📋 Backlog
Scoring v2 — temporal signals
BGG hotness, trending data
Publisher/designer affinity
Early adopter profile validation
Mid-size, newer, data-curious stores
🎯 To Do
Store Insight Report format
Draft artifact that proves Phase 1
Rin
Financial impact model
Dead inventory cost, preorder savings math
Rin
Run on Victory Point
Does Andy say "huh, didn't know that"?
Ben
🔄 In Progress
✅ Done
92 stores in CMS
45 high-confidence predictions
85 unique store blurbs
Fuzzy search API + frontend
Victory Point intro call
Andy interested in design partner
💼 Career — Job Search Rin Runs It
📋 Backlog
Bay Area target companies
Growing tech, tabletop-adjacent
Rin
🎯 To Do
Surface opportunities weekly
Ben reviews, doesn't actively search
Rin
🔄 In Progress
Omni Analytics
Intro call done ✓ — awaiting next steps
🎯 When Omni Confirms
Reach out to Ben H
Technical interview prep
Ben
✅ Done
Resume docs received
4 variants + master stories
OpenRouter configured
Aliases: sonnet, haiku, opus, deepseek
🍼 Baby Smash Launched!
🔄 In Progress
r/daddit post
Posted! Awaiting mod approval
Ben
🎯 Next
Show HN post
Draft ready
Cross-post to r/Parenting
Wait 24h after daddit
✅ Done
Live at babysmash.app
Screentime research
Marketing plan + copy
🃏 MTG Deals Background
🔄 Running
Listener + Web dashboard
Live at mtg.peltzel.dev, 4+ days uptime
Rin maintains
📊 LGSScout ⏸️ Paused
📋 Paused Work
Data pipeline maturity
Will resume after Orderacle validation
Site UX polish
✅ Done
Live at lgsscout.vercel.app

📝 Decision Log

Feb 11, 2026: Baby Smash launched! Posted to r/daddit (pending mod approval). Show HN draft ready.
Feb 10, 2026: Orderacle = maniacal focus. LGSScout paused. MTG Deals background. Job search: Rin runs, Ben reviews. Baby Smash: ship when ready.
Feb 10, 2026: Orderacle Phase 1: Prove to ourselves we can help an LGS. Build store insight report + financial impact model. Validate on Victory Point.