On November 19th 2025, this all started with a prompt: “So I’ve got a weird idea that scratches a horrible itch a lot of my friends have. We used to share our lives and private thoughts in clos...

Written by Casey: so this is where we’re at these days — things move so fast, where I previously relied solely on openspec to not lose track of changes or context, I can now almost fully rely on Cl...

We spent a lot of time this week staring at Brian Lovin’s Path dissection. If you haven’t seen it, go look. He recorded every animation, every modal, every micro-interaction. What struck us wasn’t...

One of the first questions we had to answer was deceptively simple: if everyone’s data is on the same server, how do we keep it private between friends? The Scenario Let’s say: X joins Nah (f...

When we started designing Nah, the obvious choice seemed to be Hometown — a Mastodon fork specifically built for private, local-only communities. But after thinking it through, we decided to fork v...