Aadil Mamujee

My biggest pet peeve at work is people not doing something when they said they would. I’ve spent years tracking other people’s commitments alongside my own. Many of those commitments get dropped the moment they’re made. Someone says “I’ll send you that doc by Monday” in a DM, both people agree, but it’s never tracked anywhere. I’m guilty of it too.

In 2021, I wrote a spec for a Slackbot called HandShake to solve this problem for myself. A bot sitting inside my DMs, recording the commitment, would catch the dropped balls before either of us did.

I tried to build it. I got a half-finished shell working, and gave up because it was hard and I didn’t have the skills. Slack apps in 2021 meant a backend, persistence, OAuth, and a thousand small product decisions I couldn’t make without writing most of the code first. I’m a product person who can read code and write small scripts, but it didn’t make sense for me to learn to build something I wasn’t even sure anyone but me would use. So the shell sat in a private repo, and the spec sat in Notion, both untouched for five years.

In the last few weeks, I built it — makepact.co. The Slack app, the landing page, the Stripe integration — all of it came together in a couple of weeks using Polsia, an AI agent platform. The 2021 spec barely changed and months of engineering work collapsed into a few weeks of product decisions.

The first thing Polsia did was spin up a landing page within minutes of dropping in the requirements. Going from a paragraph in a Notion file to a complete landing page in a few minutes was the magic moment and made me feel like I could build it. I never intended it to be a company, but most of my side projects never got this far.

The problem is that Pact only works if other people use it. A pact between me and nobody makes no sense. The real work isn’t building the bot anymore; it’s getting teams to use it , seeing and fixing the friction, and repeating that loop for months. That’s the right way to build a successful product, but it’s also not what I set out to learn. I wanted to get better at building with AI, not spend my limited free time doing enterprise customer development between school drop-offs and time with my baby.

Pact will likely never take off but the half-built in 2021 died at the spec. This version dies on a real domain, with a working app, real Stripe payments, a real Slack listing, but zero traction. Five years ago I couldn’t build this at all and now it’s easy with AI and a bit of iteration.