How this is made

Near My Town is being built to operate as a real-world YAGNI case study. Sources, evidence, editorial decisions, publishing actions, and results are designed to stay traceable. Software changes already use pull requests and automated checks; deployment previews will join that workflow when Vercel is connected.

Current foundation

• Next.js serves the current reader prototype.
• GitHub holds application code, fixtures, policies, pull requests, and automated checks.

Planned operating stack

• YAGNI will orchestrate recurring work through scoped Near My Town capabilities.
• Vercel will host the public and editorial application, previews, and rollback.
• Supabase will provide Postgres, geospatial data, authentication, evidence storage, and durable work.
• A typed email-provider adapter will prepare editions; sending will remain human-approved.
• CRM and payment providers will remain separate from editorial ranking and publishing.
• Notion for brand voice, the issue template, the rate card, and the event-source library.

Autonomy

Most internal actions — drafting, research, CRM updates, slot holds, event ingestion — can eventually run without human edits. The newsletter send, money-related documents, and merges to YAGNI production stay human-gated for good. On this bounded, low-blast-radius application, some PRs may eventually auto-merge when CI and a Vercel preview are healthy; the autonomy policy and instant rollback keep that experiment contained.

About YAGNI

Near My Town is a real business and bounded operating case study for YAGNI, which helps businesses automate recurring operations and become a self-improving company.