---
date: 2026-01-01
updated: 2026-04-27
type: person
tags: [person, owner]
role: indie hacker, founder
company: "[[Companies/Currentscale Labs]]"
relationship: strong
last-interaction: 2026-04-27
related-projects: ["[[Projects/Tide]]"]
ai-first: true
---

# Alex Rivera

## For future Claude

Alex Rivera is the owner of this vault. Founder and sole owner of the fictional company Currentscale Labs, building [[Projects/Tide]]. Relationship strength: strong (this is the vault owner). Last interaction: 2026-04-27. The Recent Interactions section below logs vault activity rather than conversations, since Alex is talking to themselves through Claude.

## Profile

- **Role:** Indie hacker, founder, sole engineer at the fictional [[Companies/Currentscale Labs]]
- **Based in:** Lisbon, Portugal
- **Background:** 8 years backend engineering before going independent in 2025-09 (stated)
- **Public handles:** fictional, do not link

## Active commitments

- Building [[Projects/Tide]] — fictional habit-tracking SaaS, ~600 paid users (as of 2026-04, internal stripe dashboard)
- Writing weekly devlogs in `wiki/logs/`
- One open-source side project (TBD, not yet captured)

## Recent interactions

- **2026-04-27** — Paired with [[people/Sam Patel]] on streak invalidation, captured idea about streak insurance, logged work in [[wiki/logs/2026-04-27 — Tide retention rebuild]]
- **2026-04-26** — Released Tide v0.8.4, fixed a webhook race condition (TBD: link the devlog when written)

## Notes for future Claude

- Alex prefers terse outputs and dislikes em-dashes in prose
- Working hours: 09:00–18:00 WET, hard stop weekends
- Confidence: this profile is `stated` based on direct vault content
