Plan · 2026-05-12

Dad demo.

Jan Higgins (Oliver's vader) is the first audience for HiggiHQ.com. Not a sales pitch — tangible proof that what his son keeps talking about actually exists.

L1 — observability

updated 17:26 CET

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Five services running on a €4.83/month server in Nuremberg. Probed live every 60 seconds from this page. If any dot turns red, something on the stack is genuinely down.

Why

Personal deadlines work harder than business deadlines. Without a person who actually cares behind the deadline, this stays in perpetual MVP. Bonus: IAN— Oliver's middle name, the secondary identity in the HiggiHQ branding — comes from Jan. The father is already woven into the brand.

Success ladder

minimum

L1 only — a working status page

“Oh, that actually runs.”

good

L1 + L2 — live data + memex counters

“Wait, that's your stack monitoring itself?”

target

L1 + L2 + L3 — observability + memory + identity

“Jezus Oliver.”

dream

+ live Higgi voice demo over the phone

“Mag ik even iets vragen?”

The three layers (Concept-D)

L1

Observability

A live status grid — five services with up/down indicators, server uptime, RAM and disk, recent n8n flow runs, recent git commits across both repos, last MCP tool call. Real, not mocked.

L2

Memex

Counters from the second brain: notes in vault, ideas in the vault, ADRs decided. The latest morning brief preview. A weekly summary of what the system did, written by Claude.

L3

Generative identity

A hero that breathes. A short manifesto — three paragraphs of what this stands for. A self-documenting stack block that updates itself. No placeholder lorem ipsum anywhere.

In scope (MVP voor Jan)

  • L1 status grid with live data
  • L3 manifesto — three short paragraphs
  • Auto-generated stack block

Out of scope (v2)

  • Generative hero animation
  • Higgi voice demo (Q3 project)
  • Sales-tier pages — wrong site
  • Full L2 history vs snapshot

Effort estimate

Skeleton + Vercel deploy2uweekend 1
L1 status grid (probe + display)4uweekend 1
L3 manifesto + stack block2uweekend 1
L2 counters (data integrations)4uweekend 2
Polish + responsiveness4uweekend 2
Deploy + domain wiring1uweekend 2
Total to “goed” level17u2 weekends

Open question

When? Without a date, this stays MVP forever.

Suggested: end of May / early June 2026 — backwards-plan from there.