Month 6 Plan

Month 6 — Polish, Open-Source Launch, and Storytelling

This month you don't learn a new technical topic. You turn what you built over five months into a product the world can see and use. Knowledge that can't be shown produces the same hiring result as knowledge that doesn't exist.

Learning core

• Technical storytelling (to technical and non-technical readers)
• Open-source project management: license, contributing guide, issue templates
• Architecture communication: a clean diagram
• Being able to defend your own work

Project steps

1. Architecture diagram (two services, database, queue, monitoring, eval harness, and data flow)
2. Rewrite the README professionally: what it does, architecture, one-command setup, features, eval and performance results, key engineering decisions and their rationale
3. Open-source release: license, CONTRIBUTING, a few good first issues
4. Demo: a short video/GIF showing the end-to-end flow — at the top of the README
5. Technical blog post: "How we made an open-source AI agent platform measurable and observable"
6. Launch on a professional network
7. Interview narrative: a 2-minute summary + a one-sentence rationale for each month's decision (the "defense note")

Why spend a whole month on packaging? Because hiring isn't a knowledge contest, it's a communication process. The hiring person can't see inside your head; they only see what you show them — the repo, the writing, the demo.

Division of labor

You decide who takes what. Rough split: (a) architecture diagram + README rewrite + defense note, (b) demo video/GIF + blog post + good first issues. Together: launch posts, community announcements, responding to first feedback.

Content plan

• Launch video: "We started 6 months ago, here's the result" (side by side with the first Month 1 video)
• Full product demo
• "How we did it" 6-month summary thread
• "The 6 big lessons we learned in these 6 months"

Launch call to action: "Try the repo, leave a star, open feedback." First users usually come from a call this clear.

Retro