Build Your Own Publishing Command Center!

It's so ridiculously easy. Own your pipeline!!

So we are 10000% in the age of custom bespoke software. It isn’t even hard anymore. You can open any instance of Claude and have some sort of working app in 5-10 minutes, depending on what you’re after, or a few hours if you want something more intense.

It is CRAZY.

I’ve been consolidating all my things into a main publishing command center browser app, that, while I’m still building it out with the aim of running agents back and forth and all over my process and pipeline, is workable and super helpful right now!

And here is where what I was talking about on the call last week about custom bespoke writing pipelines applies here, too—you don’t have to wait anymore for the 4 semi-useful services you subscribe to to get the features you really need, or despair that they don’t have them yet.

You can OWN all your data and all your process in one place, and have it manipulated by any AI you want. It’s yours. And you don’t have to know how to code to do this, just how to have a conversation with your AI.

Here’s the current dashboard for my publishing command center, which at this point features a buuunch of robust tabs, features, sections, and capabilities:

Forgive my oddball creations titles, I was testing, my brain was high on vibe coding!

What I hope to do is be able to write, edit, translate, build out marketing materials, analyze my ads and income and business structures, identify opportunities, see everything I have going on at a glance, and all around run my business from this app.

It currently lives in my local host browser, the build is done in Claude Cowork (which I’ll go into why I’m doing Cowork instead of Code here in a bit), and is built around a Supabase database (you can get free, though I want to go robust with storage so I got their lowest monthly). I want it to house my entire publishing pipeline end to end, in one database pull-able and readable by any AI, with the ability to cross-automate as much of the admin work as possible.

THAT IS THE DREAM. THE DREAM IS ATTAINABLE, BY GOD.

Here’s another view:

The way I built this, every book is clickable and the book info popup accessible and editable from everywhere within the app. I’m building in agents to be able to generate any of this info at a click, too.

I’m not going to give you this code—again, like Cassie and I have both been stressing, SAAS is on the way out. One size fits all is on the way out. We are teaching you how to fish.

You need to build with your own systems in mind, and you need to know how to build them so you can customize them with everything you need them to do, and update them when the tech changes and there’s new possibilities, too.

BUT I will give you a very detailed prompt to give to Cowork to get rolling on an initial framework like this! It should give a pretty robust initial build, and set your database straight from the start.

Prompt + more views and my production strategy with this below!