I stopped starting with ideas. Now I start with systems.

About a month ago, I wrote that outcomes started to feel predictable.

Not because the ideas were bad,
but because the structure behind them was weak.

If I didn’t know how something would make money,
it usually didn’t.

That realization changed how I build.

But something else happened after that.

I started asking a different question:

What if the problem isn’t the idea or even the revenue model—
but the fact that I’m building things in isolation?

So I zoomed out.

Instead of thinking in terms of single products,
I started designing a system.

Over the last 60 days,
I mapped out 76 small apps.

Not 76 random ideas—
but 76 connected pieces.

I call it the “Memory Universe.”

Each app solves a very specific problem.
But more importantly, each one supports how I think, store, and reuse information.

Because that’s where I kept failing before.

Not execution.
Not even ideas.

But fragmentation.

Good prompts lost in notes
Insights buried in past projects
Things I already figured out… forgotten

So instead of fixing that once,
I decided to build around it entirely.

The first piece I shipped is Prompt Picker.

It’s simple.

Just a fast, low-friction way to store and reuse prompts.

But it sits inside a much bigger direction:

A system where ideas, memory, and execution are connected.

Interestingly, this approach changed how I work:

I build less randomly
I decide faster
And I don’t expect each product to “win” on its own

Now, the goal isn’t to find one breakout idea.

It’s to make sure every piece fits into a structure that can work.

Still early.
Still experimental.

But this feels very different from before.

Less guessing.
More alignment.

Curious—

Has anyone here tried building products as part of a larger system,
instead of treating each one as an independent bet?

Would love to hear how you think about structure vs ideas.