Paging all industrious/ creative seed starters

[heirloomdaddy]

Please forgive my ignorance if this has been addressed, I've searched and found nothing that fits my needs.

I need a good self-watering system for seedlings. I love starting from seed, but really don't want to deal with the clutter of an indoor scenario. Plus, the plants always seem to take-off anyway once they taste the sunlight. I'm in So Cal, so once germinated the seedlings will do fine outside, even in the dead of winter. Ideally, I can completely avoid dealing with indoor growing.

I'd love some sort of self watering container/containers that I can sow directly into, and stick in a sunny spot. There is no danger of frost, so this setup could minimize my effort and maximize my plants' success.

Maybe a miniature, or many miniature versions of Ray's SWC? I would love input from container gardeners as I am quite ignorant on the subject.