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S0 · Episode 7

Building in public before filing a patent: I went private

filmed 4 September 2026 · 5:09 · filmed in private, before the series went public

The episode, in writing

by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said

Let me show you some of the connections I've built today, LinkedIn and YouTube. The thing is, we're building the app nowadays, like Claude Code is making this so easy, especially with Sable 5.1, but that doesn't mean the connections built with these kind of platforms, where you're creating an app and you've got client IDs, you've got secrets, you're saving them in your env local file, there's so much going on, you learn so much, but it still takes three, four, five hours to build out these connections.

So if I go on the website here and click today, I can watch today's episode, I can film another, which I've just done right now. If we go into account here, I can show you some of the connections, and as I said before, connections are what's going to build context from your day and know what you've done and what you've achieved, so it can ask you amongst other things. I've got GitHub connected, I've got YouTube connected and LinkedIn, you can see, disconnect, disconnect. On top of this, you've got Zoom, you've got calendar, I've connected my calendar, Fathom, Zoom, Fireflies, Stripe, et cetera, et cetera.

Now if I show you guys the vault, there's two things, there's a vault and the archive. The vault is where everything stays when you're private, or when you're stealth, we call it stealth mode. One of the memberships is stealth mode, because there's going to be a lot of people who want to build in public but don't want to put it right out there straight away, but they do want to document it, so we built a kind of membership for them. When they film videos, like I've done today, like this episode six, all of this has gone into the vault. If I clicked on vault, this is what you'll see.

Just before today I had everything public, because I'm cool, I want to put it out there public, I want to show everyone what I'm doing. It's not that many people find it right now, but I actually used a setting which I'll show you. If we go into series, which is where you kind of set up your branding for your shots, so many things, series name, you can do series zero, series one, series two, you brand your name, what you're documenting, the labels of each episode.

Then we've got the rhythm, so like you sit down day, it's like one day a week you sit down and talk at length maybe, you've got debrief time, so when it kind of nudges you to create the content, you've got the more if you want to do it in the morning, your commitment. I put every day, I think it's quite easy, actually I'm doing multiple every day. Holiday mode, so one of the cool things about this whole bit of software is it creates a streak, so now you've done three days in a row of recording, four days, five days, and we're going to build up and have leaderboards of how many people got a streak, but people go on holiday, right. So number one, you can pause the streak because you're going on holiday, or I've made it easy, so when you're on holiday you can record really short episodes, like podcasts with your face off or whatever.

You've got knowledge base, so you can add your site, what it already knows, you've got brands, you've got logos, captions, all that kind of stuff. I can go through that later, polish, so like as filmed or spotlight, you've got transitions, so many things. I'm only like five days in and we've got so many cool things like publishing.

This is what I was talking about, so you can be in stealth, right. This is already a bug I've seen, you see how it says episode one, three, four, six, so it's missing things, but you can see how they're all private. Before today everything was public, and as I said before, I was going back and forth with a lawyer in the UK about the patent application and things like that, and that advised me, before we file that, to just take down everything where you're discussing this stuff, because you don't want to be open to, if you're going to be serious about this, you don't want to be open about what your tech does, just opening the door for someone to kind of grasp it. Even though what I'm trying to patent is not really simple, you wouldn't see the website or what I've said and be like, oh, I know what he's doing, but the whole system anyway.

So I've made myself go private, right, I actually came into here, publishing, and I went private. So now at any point I can literally come into here and I can click go public, and make that whole vault which I showed you go public. And then that would turn into what we call the archive. And the archive then sits into this address here, underway dot live slash series slash underway dot cu, everyone would have their own link there, right, it'd be like kind of a YouTube of builders.

So now that it's private, I'm going to wait to file this patent, and then I'm just going to click public and go live, and everything.

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Read the transcript

So real quick let's do another episode and get this documented So I did want to show you guys let's just go here So we're gonna go on the side I'm gonna show you some of the connections I've built today obviously LinkedIn as I said on the last episode and YouTube I think the thing is we're building the app nowadays like Claude Co is making this so easy especially with Fable 5 1 but that doesn't mean like the connections built with these kind of platforms where you're creating an app and you've got client IDs you've got you've got secrets you're saving them in your env local file There's so much going on you learn so much but it still takes you know like three four five hours to build out these connections So I want to go through some of them so if I just go on the website here and click today So I can watch today's episode I can film another which I've just done right now So if we go in account here I can show you some of the connections And as I said before connections are what's going to build context from your day and know what you've done and what you've achieved so it can ask you amongst other things So I've got you know get pub connected Now I've got YouTube connected and LinkedIn you can see disconnect disconnect So on top of this you know you got zoom you got calendar I've connected my calendar fathom zoom fireflies stripe etc etc So if I now show you guys the vault Now the vault is there's two things there's a vault and the archive The vault is where everything stays when you're private and what I mean by that is or when you're stealth we call it stealth mode So one of the memberships is stealth mode because there's gonna be a lot of people who wanna build in public but don't wanna put it right out there straight away but they do wanna document it So we built a kind of membership for them And when they film videos like I've done today on like this episode six all of this has gone into the vault So if I clicked on vault this is what you'll see Now just before today I had everything public because I'm cool I wanna put it out there public I wanna show everyone what I'm doing It's not that many people find it right now but I actually used a setting which I'll show you So if we go into series which is where you kind of set up your branding for your shots So many things so you series so you can series name right so you can do series zero series one series two What's it called You brand your name what you're documenting the labels of each episode Then we've got the rhythm So like you sit down day So it's like one day a week you sit down and talk at length maybe You got debrief time So when it kind of nudges you to create the content you got the more if you wanna do it in the morning your commitment So I put every day you know I think it's quite easy Actually I'm doing multiple every day Holiday mode So you know one of the cool things about this whole bit of software is it creates a streak So now you've done three days in a row of recording four days five days and we're gonna build up and have leaderboards of how many people got a streak you know but people go on holiday right So number one you can pause the streak because you're going on holiday or I've made it easy So when you're on holiday you can record really short episodes like podcasts with your face off or whatever So there's that You've got knowledge base so you can add your site what it already knows you've got brands you've got logos captions all that kind of stuff guys It's really cool I can go through that later polish so like as filmed or spotlight you've got transitions so many things Like I'm only like five days in and we've got so many cool things like publishing this is what I was talking about So you can be in stealth right So this is already a bug I've seen You see how it says episode one three four six so it's missing things but you can see how they're all private So before today everything was public And as I said before I was going back and forth with a lawyer in the UK about the patent application and things like that and that's revised me Before we file that like just take down everything where you're discussing this stuff because you don't want to be open to if you're going to be if you're serious about this you don't want to be open about what your tech does just opening the door for someone to kind of grasp it Even though what I'm trying to patent is not really simple into you wouldn't see the website or what I've said and be like Oh I know what he's doing But the whole system anyway so I've made myself go private right So I actually came into here publishing and I went private So now at any point right I can literally come into here and I can click go public and make that whole vault which I showed you up here go public And then that would turn into what we call the archive And the archive then sits into this address here underway live false series false underway cu Everyone would have their own link there right So it'd be like kind of a YouTube of builders So now that it's private I'm gonna wait to file this patent and then I'm just gonna click public and go live and everything

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