Situation Monitor
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This is a real-time situation monitoring dashboard that aggregates multiple data streams (news, markets, social sentiment, government activity) into a customizable interface. For Brian, this hits his sweet spot of automation, data visualization, and the potential to build similar tools for his own use or as side projects.
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"Building a Personal Situation Room: What I Learned Aggregating 15 Data Sources"
Most developers underestimate how much situational awareness they can gain by building custom monitoring dashboards for their specific needs.
His experience monitoring his print-on-demand business metrics and how expanding that concept could help track market conditions affecting his fintech work.
"Why Every Side Project Needs a Monitoring Dashboard (And How to Build One in a Weekend)"
The same real-time monitoring principles used for system health can be applied to track business metrics, market conditions, and opportunity signals.
Specific examples from his Chrome extensions and web agency tools where better monitoring could have caught issues or opportunities earlier.
"Event-Driven Monitoring: From AWS Lambda to Life Decisions"
The serverless, event-driven patterns we use for code can be applied to personal decision-making and opportunity detection.
How his serverless experience at the fintech startup could translate to building personal monitoring systems.