The 80-Day ProjectBuilding TVLens in public, one post a day.https://tvlens.org/Day 20: Use It Firsthttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-20/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-20/Five problems found by using the site.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 19: Ask Firsthttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-19/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-19/Side Quests, and an agent that said no.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 18: Compare Firsthttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-18/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-18/Top Picks, ranked by lift over the crowd.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 17: Listen Firsthttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-17/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-17/Ratings, so the app can learn from a user.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 16: Decide Firsthttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-16/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-16/Designing personalization before writing any of it.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 15: Compute Oncehttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-15/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-15/Storing recommendations instead of rebuilding them.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 14: Lifting the Caphttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-14/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-14/Moving the lookup into the database.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 13: Scale Hardeninghttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-13/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-13/SQLite's 999-variable limit, found early.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 12: Context Boxeshttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-12/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-12/Explaining a connection instead of listing names.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 11: Wireframe Codinghttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-11/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-11/The wireframe, built into a real page.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 10: Wireframehttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-10/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-10/Wireframing the show page with Claude Design.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 9: GitHubhttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-09/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-09/Moving issues from Linear to GitHub.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 6: Breakhttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-06-08/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-06-08/Three days of travel. No work.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 5: Clean Uphttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-05/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-05/A data health check and a fallback rule.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 4: Tonyhttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-04/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-04/An engineering agent, set loose on the weights.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 3: Quantity isn't always qualityhttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-03/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-03/Counting episodes, not just credits.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 3: Business ruleshttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-03-rules/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-03-rules/The rules of the eighty days.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 2: We are loving the crewhttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-02/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-02/Adding crew to the connections.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 1: Starting with the Recommenderhttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-01/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-01/Connecting shows through the people who made them.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDay 0: Here we gohttps://tvlens.org/80dp/day-00/https://tvlens.org/80dp/day-00/Announcing TVLens and the eighty-day clock.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT