# The Someday Folder > Turn unfinished ideas into small experiments with AI. A practical, occasionally funny field guide by Rakesh Menon for makers with a day job, written in public on Leanpub one part a week (29 October to 1 December 2026), free while in progress. ## Key facts - Author: Rakesh Menon (https://x.com/SublimeCoderX, https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakesh-menon-xt); also wrote The Second Time Is a Bug (https://secondtimeisabug.com) - Get it: https://leanpub.com/thesomedayfolder (PDF and EPUB, DRM-free; free while being written, or pay what you like from $9.99) - Thesis: AI made building cheap; choosing what to make, reaching people and deciding whether it worked did not. So the advantage moves to a habit of many small, cheap, aimed experiments, each one actually looked at. - Method: one loop, aim, fire, look, decide; 30 move cards (M01 to M30), prompts, templates and a 30-day plan - Running example: Alex, a fictional designer, and Pip, her fictional and overconfident AI coding agent ## Contents - Part 1, Open the Folder: Chapter 1, The Price of a Shot; Chapter 2, More Shots, Better Looks - Part 2, Aim: Chapter 3, Where Ideas Hide; Chapter 4, Score It Before You Build It; Chapter 5, Write the Bet Down - Part 3, Fire: Chapter 6, The Smallest Shot That Counts; Chapter 7, Hire the Agent; Chapter 8, Free Tools as Bait; Chapter 9, Ship Before You're Ready - Part 4, Look: Chapter 10, Signals, Not Compliments; Chapter 11, Getting Seen Without an Audience - Part 5, Decide: Chapter 12, Go, Change or Quit; Chapter 13, The Habit; Chapter 14, Keep Shooting ## Release schedule - Thu 29 Oct 2026: Part 1, Open the Folder (Preface, Chapters 1 and 2) [out] - Thu 5 Nov 2026: Part 2, Aim (Chapters 3 to 5) - Thu 12 Nov 2026: Part 3, Fire (Chapters 6 to 9) - Thu 19 Nov 2026: Part 4, Look (Chapters 10 and 11) - Thu 26 Nov 2026: Part 5, Decide (Chapters 12 to 14, appendices) - Tue 1 Dec 2026: The finished book (EPUB, move card index and printable deck) ## Questions and answers ### What is The Someday Folder? A practical, occasionally funny field guide by Rakesh Menon for people who want to make new things often, with AI doing much of the building. It turns one loop (aim, fire, look, decide) into 30 move cards, prompts, templates and a 30-day plan, so the unfinished ideas in your someday folder become small, cheap experiments you can actually judge. ### Who is the book for? Makers with a day job: developers with a weekend and an itch, designers with a notebook full of "someone should build this", and product people tired of admiring other people's side projects. It assumes you can get something built, with or without AI, and helps you choose what to build, get it seen and decide whether it worked. ### Is it free? Yes, while it is being written. On Leanpub you can get it free or pay what you like from $9.99, and everyone receives every new chapter and the finished book as free updates. The minimum price is planned to rise when the book is finished on 1 December 2026. ### When do new chapters come out? One part every Thursday on Leanpub: Part 1 came out on 29 October 2026, Part 2 lands on 5 November, Part 3 on 12 November, Part 4 on 19 November and Part 5 with the appendices on 26 November. The finished book follows on 1 December 2026. Each drop replaces the one before it, so your download is always the whole book so far. ### Do I need to know how to code? No. You can mine complaints, score ideas, write bet sheets, run a fake door and deliver a service by hand without writing code, and several of the strongest shots in the book involve none. You will learn, a little at a time, how to put a page online, how to count a click or a sign-up, and how to read what your AI assistant says it has done. ### Which formats can I read it in? PDF and EPUB, both without DRM, from Leanpub. The PDF suits computers and the EPUB suits phones, tablets and e-readers. The finished book adds a move card index and a printable deck of all thirty move cards. ### How is it different from The Lean Startup and similar books? None of the parts are new. Paul Graham, Eric Ries, Rob Fitzpatrick, Alberto Savoia and Annie Duke have written wisely about finding ideas, testing them early, asking good questions and quitting on time, and the book credits them throughout. What is new is the price of a shot: when an AI assistant can build in an evening, their advice stops being something for funded founders and becomes a regular practice for anyone with a laptop. ### Are Alex and Pip real? No. Alex, the designer with eleven side projects, and Pip, her overconfident AI coding agent, are fictional, and so are Alex's numbers; the book says so whenever it uses them. Every statistic, study and story about a real company or person comes from a published source, listed in the Notes at the back. ### How was AI used to write it? AI assistants supported the research and drafting, including finding and summarising publications. Cited sources were checked against the originals wherever they could be opened, and the author is responsible for the selection, interpretation and use of all of it. The pages headed "From my own folder" are the author's own experience. ### How can I give feedback on the drops? Reply to Rakesh on X at @SublimeCoderX, or use the contact link on the book's Leanpub page. The three questions that help most: where did you stop reading, what one thing would you try this week, and what was confusing, wrong or boring? ## Links - Book page: https://somedayfolder.com/ - Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/thesomedayfolder - Author on X: https://x.com/SublimeCoderX