About r3d.bar
A public log for the work behind the work.
I'm Justin Betker. I build products with AI. r3d.bar is where I publish the experiments behind that work, including the ones that fail, because the failures usually contain the real lesson.
Most people share the polished version. The launch. The win. The tweet-sized lesson. I care much more about the path that got there.
That path is usually messy. Wrong turns. Rewrites. Ideas that sounded obvious until they hit reality. That is the interesting part to me, and it is the part most people hide.
This site exists to make those red bars visible. It is a running log of what I tried, what broke, what got better, and what changed my mind.
It also keeps me honest. If I'm going to say experimentation matters, I should be willing to show the actual experiments.
What Lives Here
The log is the running archive of experiments, failures, and breakthroughs.
The framework is the belief underneath it: the red bars are not the opposite of progress. They are how you find it.
The products are the proof. Some experiments turn into real things, like Transcripted.