Reggie shipped his first app. Line Forge — the debut release from Red Beard Foundry — went live on the App Store on Wednesday, July 29th. Brian runs the interview, and Reggie walks the whole arc: six months and a day from an empty folder to a shipped product, the generator problem that nearly stalled it, what AI tooling actually contributed, what got pushed aside at home, and what he'd tell someone sitting on an idea right now.

Spoiler: it isn't "go for it."

KEY TOPICS:

• Six months and a day from first folder to App Store — including the company setup that ate two of them

• Over 19,000 puzzles at launch, open access, no pack-gating

• The real hard problems: puzzle generation and catalog management

• AI tooling as both multiplier and main frustration

• Isolate your goal before you build anything

• A ...