From Chaos to Shipped — A Practical Workflow for Solo Developers

This guide presents a four-phase workflow (Capture → Plan → Build → Ship) designed for solo developers struggling with context-switching, lost ideas, and deployment mistakes. It introduces an IDEA.md file for frictionless idea capture, a weekly triage process, and GitHub issues as the single source of truth for work items. The system requires no new tools—just a text editor, GitHub, and Markdown.