r/sideprojects

Started this because I kept seeing the same misconception everywhere: people think a will keeps their family out of probate court. It doesn't — a will is actually what sends your estate through probate. A trust is the thing that avoids it, and almost nobody explains the difference clearly, or walks through the part that actually matters (funding the trust — retitling assets into it — which is the step most people skip and then wonder why it didn't work).

So I put together two guides:

• The Family Trust & Probate Protection Guide (30 pages) — how revocable trusts work, the funding checklist by asset type, Medicaid look-back rules, 10 case studies (blended family, business owner, renta

Solo project, built during nights and weekends: CLSTR reads 100k+ news articles a day from 40k+ sources, figures out which ones are covering the same event, and squashes them into one item. Related events get chained into "situations" - storylines with timelines, so you can see how a story developed over weeks instead of re-reading the same headline 20 times.

After 138 days, I asked Claude to analyze all the data I had ingested and published the stats. The news looks weird from above:

• 12:1 - articles written per thing that actually happened. The news is mostly echo.
• 82% of stories are still developing after day 3 - which is exactly when news sites stop showing them to y