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Field notes on building software that ships, engineering, design, product and the occasional hard-won lesson. No listicles, no fluff.

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FeaturedProduct

The MVP is dead. Build a Minimum Lovable Product instead.

Shipping the smallest thing that technically works is how you get a graveyard of ignored apps. Here's the framework we use to find the smallest thing people actually love, and why it ships faster, not slower.

Jul 12, 2026 6 min read
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Engineering

How we ship to a million users without a war room

The boring architecture decisions that let a small team survive a launch spike without paging anyone at 3am.

Jul 8, 2026 8 min read
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Growth

Retention is a feature, not a marketing problem

Why the fix for churn almost always lives in the product, and the four loops we build into every app.

Jul 2, 2026 7 min read
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AI

On-device AI is finally good enough to ship

What changed, what it costs, and how we put a vision model in a nutrition app that runs offline in under two seconds.

Jun 26, 2026 8 min read
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Design

The design system audit we run before every rebuild

A repeatable checklist for finding the inconsistencies quietly slowing your team down, and what to fix first.

Jun 19, 2026 6 min read
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Engineering

Choosing boring technology on purpose

Why we reach for the stack your team can hire for and maintain, not the exotic bet that looks great in a talk.

Jun 11, 2026 6 min read
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Product

Scoping an app so the estimate survives contact with reality

The questions we ask before quoting, and how they keep timelines honest once the build actually starts.

Jun 4, 2026 7 min read
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Engineering

The QA rituals that catch bugs before your users do

Device-farm testing, release trains, and the day-one war room, the unglamorous work behind a smooth launch.

May 28, 2026 7 min read
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Growth

Onboarding is where most apps lose the plot

The first ninety seconds decide whether someone stays. Here's how we design them to earn the second session.

May 21, 2026 6 min read

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