What it is
Continuo is an AI-powered business management platform I designed for small businesses — the kind of place that needs a CRM, real accounting (full chart of accounts, automated invoices with PDF export), and basic project management, but doesn't want to pay for five different SaaS subscriptions to get it. Customer database, lead tracking, real-time analytics — I wanted to see how much of that I could reasonably build myself.
It turned out that I was likely better served spending time on my Codecademy full-stack development courses than using Cursor, GitHub Copilot and finally Kiro, to try to build such a complex piece of software. In the end I felt overwhelmed and a bit lost, and in retrospect, it likely had to do with the AI-assisted tools I was using, and not having enough experience in directing AI-assisted development.
Stack
- Frontend — Next.js 14, TypeScript, React, Apollo Client
- API — GraphQL
- Data — Prisma ORM
- Hosting — Railway, with PostgreSQL and Redis
I also made a point of getting it to WCAG AA accessibility rather than treating that as an afterthought.
Where it's at
Shelved for now, sitting at a working prototype. The core modules are functional, but I've moved my attention elsewhere and haven't touched it in a while. Might come back to it someday but in the meantime, the repo is publicly archived.