Day 18: Free First. Why I Am Launching FinancePulse Without a Paywall. Day 18 since I incorporated Northvane LLC and started the Build Wright public clock. Today is Friday, May 8, 2026. Three weeks ago none of this existed. This week shipped a lot, and the shape of the next 4 weeks is now clear enough that I can stop guessing and start sequencing. Quick honest framing before I get into it: nothing I describe below is "validated" in the revenue sense yet. The Quick Start Guide has a handful of buyers. FinancePulse has zero subscribers because the signup form was live for 36 hours. PatentScan is still on the napkin. So this is a build-in-public update, not a victory lap. What shipped this week Three things landed. Two open source repos. I had been carrying a Stripe webhook signature verifier and a Supabase RLS cookbook around in my own head for weeks. Both are the kind of thing every solo SaaS founder reinvents badly the first time. So I extracted them into standalone repos and pushed them to GitHub.…