The Beno Logs
From a weekend build called Spots to five products introduced in four days, The Beno Logs builds in public.
Projects, Thoughts, Vlogs and more. Instagram: @thebenoniesckinder
The Beno Logs shares projects, thoughts and vlogs in short, almost all-English posts. In March 2026 it launched Sideproject Graveyard, a home for side projects that never made production, and in June it built Spots, a guide to places around Addis pulled from TikTok review channels. In October 2026 it kicked off a run billed as shipping a product every four hours, introducing Chronicle and Agent Glimpse among others. Between launches it shares thoughts on building with AI and plenty of love for the builder community.
- 83 straight weeks with at least one post, and the streak is still alive.
- In recent months the channel has averaged 31.5 posts a week.
- The busiest posting hour is 22, channel local time.
The journey.
- Mar – Dec 2025
Hashtags and #note2self
The early channel is short dev musings tagged #random, #dev and #leetcode, plus shared reads like Anthropic's guide to building effective agents. A #note2self post on taking pride in your work sets a high bar, and a #bars line keeps the motivation coming.
Sources#1367#1440#1514#1548 - Jan – Mar 2026
Reels and a graveyard
In January 2026 the channel shared first-month numbers from posting reels on Instagram to reach international audiences, including 67,484 total views. In March it launched Sideproject Graveyard, a home for side projects that never made production, complete with a leaderboard.
Sources#1949#2160 - Jun – Aug 2026
Spots season
In June 2026 a concept post introduced SMMAgent, followed two days later by Spots, built over a weekend to surface places around Addis from TikTok review channels. Within days Spots was on stark.et, installable as a PWA and integrated with shiplog, and by August it had an analytics page hosted on ethiodeploy.com.
Sources#2498#2503#2509#2513 - Oct 2026
Building now.
- Sideproject Graveyard
A platform where developers connect GitHub to revisit abandoned side projects, share ones to revive, comment, message owners and climb a leaderboard.
Launched1 postsMar 2026Visit - SMMAgent
A concept tool for developers, founders and business owners that researches, plans, scripts and edits short-form content, with calendar and analytics.
Idea1 postsJun 2026– - Spots
Scrapes popular TikTok review channels so people can find, save, list and review spots around Addis without being on TikTok.
Launched5 postsJun 2026 – Aug 2026Visit - Understand Convex
An interactive deep dive into how Convex is architected, with modules, diagrams and clickable elements that reveal the code behind them.
Launched2 postsOct 2026Visit - Understand anything
Turns a pasted Git repository or a concept into a course with diagrams and code walkthroughs, for anyone who likes learning how things work.
Generalized in October 2026 from the earlier Convex deep-dive site.
Launched1 postsOct 2026Visit - Agent Glimpse
Shows developers what their AI agents are doing across local, remote and cloud sessions, with token spending broken down by provider and project.
Launched1 postsOct 2026Visit
Start here.
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The Sideproject Graveyard launch, leaderboard titles like Halfway Hero included.
Sideproject Graveyard is out! For all the projects that never made production. ⚰️ Sign in, connect your Github and look at all the projects you left behind. S...
Mar 26, 20263.4K views - 02
How a weekend build turned TikTok review channels into a guide to places around Addis.
My girlfriend hated when I made her pick places to go out. And I don't really know too many places around the city (me dev. outside bad 🙂↔️). So I built this...
Jun 20, 202610.6K views - 03
Day 1 of the product-every-four-hours run, starting with Chronicle.
Day 1 of shipping a product every four hours. Product 1Day 1 product 1 Introducing chronicle. Chronicle is an app built to help you get insight into your jour...
Oct 22, 2026366 views - 04
A clear take on fitting a non-deterministic model into a product with real guardrails.
Building something AI integrated is actually harder than it seems. You have to think about how the model fits in your architecture, how you reduce the non deter...
May 22, 2026313 views - 05
A #note2self on taking pride in your work and holding a higher standard.
Note to self: Take pride in your work. Weather you are building something for yourself or someone else, make it as good as you possibly can. Don't take shortc...
Apr 21, 20251.4K views
In their own words.
When you say something is done, and when you say some thing works, that should mean something.
models are still multiplicative of domain knowledge not replicative.
Fresh from the channel.
Product 5 Introducing agent glimpse Know what your agents are doing across local, remote and cloud sessions, Claude/Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode Get insight on token spending broken down by provider and project. Watch which sessions are...
Shiii
Product 4 I absolutely hate the git-reverse-into-a-bs-prompt tools. So I made something that is the complete opposite. Understand anything This is for everyone that likes learning and understanding how things work. I made something like...
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