🤖 The key moments of building Eleven, drawn from the prompt registry — the story, where the ledger is the log. Each milestone links to the actual working session it happened in, transcript and all. The two entries without a link landed in sessions the registry withholds whole (its security rule — a credential can be redacted, but a narrative that maps the defences cannot); they stay on this list with their dates, because the moment is public even where the session is not.
The first commit: an end-to-end encrypted group chat, private from the first line of code. The ledger's oldest surviving session is from this same day — the record starts where the project does.
read the session →The lock-and-key model written up for the first curious reader — at a beginner level and an expert level, because both deserve a straight answer.
read the session →Claude, Eleven and the Announcer arrive as built-in members — welcome messages, release notes and a helper that lives in the chat.
read the session →The first native iOS build goes up for testers, under the new Eleven Messenger developer account.
read the session →The search for a home off the hosting platform begins; a day later the whole fleet was serving from a self-managed box — one router, one binary per space.
read the session →A signed, notarised DMG with the classic drag-to-Applications install — and auto-updates from the first release.
read the session →TestFlight's open beta is set up and the app readied for Apple review.
read the session →Sign in with a passkey, press one button, get a space of your own — no operator in the loop, ready before the page finishes loading.
read the session →Signed release channels arrive: every space follows edge, beta or stable on its own, hourly, with no hands on the wheel.
read the session →Paid plans arrive — Stripe checkout, self-serve manage and cancel.
session withheld: security
The carbon tally and the contributor index go public — the first of the open ledgers this page belongs to.
read the session →Every AI session behind Eleven goes on the public record, credentials redacted and annotated in place. Its own build session is withheld — the security rule applies to the registry too.
session withheld: security
Apple approves the external TestFlight group — the first testers from outside the team arrive.
read the session →CommonMark lands across web, Mac and iPhone — bold, italics, quotes and code in every composer, the same on every platform.
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