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When your MVP is too minimal
Why some MVPs are too minimal to learn from: how stripping a product too far kills the signal, what the minimum actually needs to include, and building enough to get a real answer.
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Engineering, design, and the technical decisions that shape what you ship. Build-versus-buy, internal tools, and product tradeoffs from people doing the work.
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Build versus buy for your internal tools
A founder's framework for build versus buy on internal tools: when off-the-shelf is enough, when custom software is worth it, and how to commission a build without wasting money.
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Shipping your first app without a technical cofounder
What a non-technical founder should know before commissioning a mobile app: realistic timelines, native versus cross-platform, code ownership, and choosing a partner.
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The custom-software buyer's guide for non-technical founders
A practical guide for non-technical founders buying a custom CRM or internal tool: the four ways to get it built, the questions to ask, and how to read a delivery window.
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Feature flags that survived: lessons from LaunchDarkly, Flagsmith, GrowthBook
Why the A/B testing framing oversold the category, and what the market actually rewards.
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Static sites in 2026: when Astro and Hugo still beat Next.js
A practical guide to when Astro or Hugo outperforms Next.js for docs, marketing pages, and content publications in 2026.
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The Firebase exodus
Why teams leave Firebase after scaling past its sweet spot, and what they choose instead.
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Why teams keep choosing Postgres for everything
Postgres has absorbed the roles of Redis, Elasticsearch, and Pinecone through extensions. The interesting question is what specialty databases still earn their keep.
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Your data is your product's liability: lessons from automotive spying
Modern cars show what unchecked data collection becomes: a liability that costs trust, money, and control. Treat privacy as a product feature, not an afterthought.
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Why your engineering team is wasting money on AI tokens
AI token spend behaves like cloud spend, not a SaaS subscription. The fix is rationalizing usage by value, setting budgets, and building cost sensors into the workflow.
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The vibe coding trap: when speed undermines security and maintainability
Vibe coding accelerates prototypes and quietly accumulates security and maintainability debt. The fix is not more willpower but sensors built into the workflow.
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Design tokens and the system layer: lessons from public design systems
Public design systems converged on primitive, semantic, and component tokens. What they still argue about, and what a team without a design-systems staff should copy.