Donnell Wyche

I preached Sunday that empire begins by attacking a nation’s memory. Pharaoh’s first move in Exodus 1 is forgetting. 3 days later came the plan for warning signs outside the National Museum of American History. Before laws change, the story changes. Forget the immigrant, then fear their children.

Four years ago I posted about @carenote.app. A spiritual director friend wrote back: "If you ever want to build something for spiritual directors, I have some ideas." #buildinpublic Today the thing we built together is out. It's called Directee. thewychefamily.com/introducing-...

Almost 40 years after I first visited colleges, I’m doing it again with my daughter. Colleges have a lot to say about what their education will do for her, their ROI. I’m increasingly interested in a more important question: Who will she become? #college #tours thewychefamily.com/college-tour...

At a housing training this spring, a presenter walked us through the math behind building a small affordable project–it reframed how I think about the whole debate. I wrote up a little reflection on what I learned, including the question I can't stop asking: who is going to close the gap? #a2council

Why does my auto insurance have 2FA? I would love someone to hack into my account and pay my premiums. Please! 🙏🏾

Continuing to enjoy the SaaS journey, especially now that @carenote.app has reach my short-term financial goals. Customers are invested, it's easier to sell to new customers, and AI has been a huge multiplier for me personally. #buidinpublic

Looking for solopreneurs between $1k–$9k MRR to connect with. It can be lonely building @carenote.app. I’d love a regular connection point with others at or just past this stage of business growth. DM me if interested. #buildinpublic

I spent 40 minutes in a future 11-year-old me could only dream about: an autonomous robot writing code using only my voice. I built a way to talk to Claude Code while out on a walk. Since starting to use CC over the past month, I was worried I'd always be tethered to a desk. That fear is gone. Wow!

I did something hard today. I announced CareNote v6 and emailed 400+ users a sneak peek of what’s next. A lot of anxiety released. v6 is a ground-up rebuild—faster, more secure, more capable. One timeline. One place. One system. Built to hold care better. #buildinpublic

Three new customers today in 2026. May this happen everyday this year! #buildinpublic

Lost a customer this morning at 11:45am. Reached out, figured out what they needed, won them back after dinner, about an hour ago. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

I've wanted to use more animations to explain features in CareNote today I built one with Claude. It's so freaking cool. www.carenote.app/pastoral-car...

Hey 🏗️, I'm on schedule for my Advent calendar of posts for @carenote.app. 11 days in, and my engagement on FB is up 133%, it has resulted in anything but it's nice to say I'm trying. #buildinpublic. How are you sharing content with potential customers? I'm posting daily on four social media sites.

Hey 🏗️, Just finished an onboarding call, it was recorded and is being transcribed, mined for insights, and accessed by AI sales coach for next steps. This is the world I've wanted to make sure I stay on top customer onboarding and engagement. So nice! #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Finally, have my internal CRM up and running with daily tasks. I just completed the first task generated by my CRM. It’s nice to see all my trials and leads in one place and to know exactly where they are in the sales funnel—and what my next step is to close them. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Playing around with agentic coding tonight. I created something really beautiful. We processed 171 customer calls—transcribed, classified, extracted pain points and promised features. And then the agent refreshed and wiped the database without a backup. $115 and hours gone. #buildinpublic 😤

This took entirely too long to develop, but I finally finished my @carenote.app advent calendar of content. I'm committing myself to posting content daily in four places. I'm using Advent to launch this content campaign. #buildinpublic

I'm enjoying this discussion in the Ann Arbor Politics fb group where they are attacking me for stating something factual, but I can't reply because I'm being moderated. #a2council You can read the MLive article: archive.is/VfBEC You can hear my direct comments: www.youtube.com/live/8HPmu4z...

Hey 🏗️, It’s been a wild 24 hours. I lost a sizable new customer yesterday, which stings even though you understand it. Then today, I gained a customer worth more than 3x that amount. Building a SaaS is an emotional ride🎢. The swings are real. #buildinpublic

I’m feeling grateful today. I’m finalizing the terms for our church to receive an interest-free loan to pay off our mortgage. It’s the result of a lot of behind-the-scenes work, relationship-building, and persistence. I created the conditions that made this possible and I’m extremely proud of that.

Once again, I’m so happy that I can upgrade my computer to the latest OS without worrying that my development environment will get f*ck’d. Thanks to the Laravel Herd team and @marcelpociot.bsky.social #muchgratitude

Hey 🏗️, I built a command today to auto-generate my CareNote release notes. Since I use commit messages as my release log, AI can read and summarize them into a blog entry. And it worked—I can now automatically create the content I used to do manually. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I’m learning so much this morning now that my lead, intent survey, and interactions dashboards are up. I found a prospect who started a trial with their personal email and then emailed me today from their church email—I would have missed that it was the same person. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Up early handling sales emails before work and building out my internal CRM to help me close more teams. I need to shift from building to sales to convert more of my funnel. Next up is connecting my email to my CRM to track interactions and flag those awaiting a response. #buildinpublic

#removefromblacksky

Hey 🏗️, I figured out how to handle my trialing users. I have a flow now: a 14-day trial, a 21-day reactivation nudge, at 45 days the account is deleted if they haven’t subscribed. I just built the dashboards to help me manage all of this. Today, three teams reactivated their trials. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I just manually sent 175 individual emails to customers who started a trial but didn’t convert and didn’t delete their trial account, even after linking their church management systems. If all of them subscribed, I’d meet my financial goals with CareNote. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I have to remember that when Git operations on GitHub don’t work, it’s usually an outage, not that someone has hacked into my account and deleted my repository. I must remember this. 😂 #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Updated my site today, reflecting on the early days of CareNote—when I’d do anything to win one church. After onboarding 600 teams, I know exactly what CareNote is: a purpose-built pastoral care platform. 🙌🏾 #buildinpublic Why CareNote? → www.carenote.app/pastoral-car...

Hey 🏗️, I just shipped the coolest feature I’ve ever built in CareNote. I can finish a pastoral visit, walk to my car, text my report to the system. No login, no app, no dashboard—just a text message & it’s logged + shared with my team. Feels like magic. #buildinpublic youtube.com/shorts/fGEsQ...

Hey 🏗️, After the emotional setback of my first, and hopefully last, refund request from an early sponsor, I woke up to an email from a new customer who’s onboarding and eager to share CareNote with colleagues in sister churches. The ups and downs of building a SaaS. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, Bittersweet day: a large church signed up, but one of my earliest CareNote sponsors cancelled and asked for a refund––a first for me. But I also shipped SMS care-request acceptance and email-to-CareNote forwarding, features I’ve long dreamt about but never had time to build. #buildinpublic

Hey 🏗️, I'm really enjoying working on CareNote. Almost every day I meet new people who are caring for their communities. I’m so grateful to come alongside folks who serve others. Had great conversations yesterday and today — it feels like a community is forming around CareNote. #buildinpublic

You should be my neighbor, so I could feed you tonight. Corn Crab Bisque Southwest Salad Grapes Baguette Lemon Crinkle Cookies web.archive.org/web/20190603... #a2council

I’m at home instead of council chambers tonight, but I’m baking lemon crumble cookies. Round two. These are perfect. The crumble is perfect. #a2council

Beautiful to see such a diverse group of voices sharing why they love Ann Arbor and believe in building a more welcoming, sustainable, and connected city. These talks capture the best of who we can be together. #a2council www.youtube.com/@MoreNeighbo...

Made these cookies tonight. My scoops were enormous. I’ll reduce by a third next time. Inspired by @strongman.bsky.social #a2council bromabakery.com/lemon-crinkl...

AAPS wouldn’t allow this as it would impact parents from dropping off their kids on their way. Instead AAPS has designed drivelines at every new school they are building. a2schoolsbond.org/news-press-i...

This is our plan in Ann Arbor: aadl.org/newdowntown. Voters in Ann Arbor this summer approved, by a 2-to-1 margin, an innovative approach to develop a new downtown library branch that will include both market-rate and affordable housing. #a2council

The coffee shop I’m working at doesn’t use labels for their drinks, they write what it is on the bottom of the cup. Then they quietly announce what the drink is & move on the next order, so people constantly interrupt asking, "What drink is this?" When it’s busy like this morning, it’s a nightmare.