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Building in React.js, Node.js, AI-assisted where it speeds things up & taking full responsibility from idea to product since 2017.

27/10/2026

The most expensive mistake in software is six months and $40k spent building something nobody uses.

It usually starts with a feature list: fourteen items, each one reasonable, each one based on what the founder believes the market wants.

The list gets built exactly as written, launch day comes and the dashboard stays empty.

By the time the assumptions are proven wrong, the runway is gone and there’s nothing left to pivot with.

A founder recently came to us with that exact list: fourteen features, all marked “needed for launch”.

We didn’t start coding, we spent discovery arguing with the list, feature by feature, assumption by assumption, until we agreed on three.

Building what’s on the list is the easy part, the harder job is telling a founder which parts of the list are fiction before they pay for them.

If you’re drafting a feature list right now, get a second opinion before you lock it in.

15/09/2026

if you’re still using AI like a search engine. 🛑

“Give me a sales report” is just a simple request, it gets you a generic transaction, to get a strategic partner, give AI a business problem using the RTCC Framework:

* R — Reality (The Situation): “We need to increase sales because our numbers dropped 12% last quarter...”
* T — Target (The Objective): “...our goal is a steady 5% month-over-month growth...”
* C — Constraints (The Limits): “...we have a frozen marketing budget and zero new headcount...”
* C — Choice (The Decision): “...so do we focus on upselling current clients or cold outbound?”

That is an RTCC problem and that is where the magic happens 💡because when you map out your challenges this way, the dynamic shifts and the AI stops acting like an encyclopedia and starts acting like a mind:

It analyzes, it challenges your assumptions., it weighs your options, it helps you decide.

When you use AI for your business, do you usually just type in a quick question, or do you take the time to map out the whole situation first?

08/09/2026

Agentic AI, from basic chatbots to autonomous agents that can execute complex, multi-step tasks across the internet entirely on their own.

Imagine planning a whole vacation, flights, hotels, and dinner reservations with a single sentence, without ever opening a web browser.

The future of tech is an ecosystem of agents working for you behind the scenes.

💬 Would you trust an AI agent to handle your wallet and your calendar?

01/09/2026

Sometimes the most secure setup is the one that locks your own app out. 🔒

A private database with no public access is great for security as nothing on the open internet can touch it, go serverless and you hit a real puzzle: your app runs outside the network and the database, on purpose, has no way in.

We recently worked through exactly this: keeping the database sealed off from the world while still giving the app a clean, reliable path in, no risky shortcuts, no public endpoint.

If your team has ever opened a database to the internet "just to make it work," there's a safer way to do it.

👇 Full technical breakdown and code in the comments.

How is your team connecting serverless apps to private resources and are you sure it's not quietly leaving a door open?

11/08/2026

Honest opinion: the most valuable thing we do for some clients is talk them out of building something.

Every feature is forever, it has to be maintained, supported and carried along with everything else you build after it.

A good no early beats a lot of features later.

05/08/2026

Agencies love to build exactly what is on the brief without ever asking why that brief exists in the first place. Adding bloat isn't a skill, knowing when to stop is.

If you are currently sitting on a 20-page project brief and wondering how much of it is actually necessary, drop us a DM.

Let’s look at where we can cut the bloat together.

04/08/2026

A fast database isn't always the fix for a slow site.

One of our clients' 6,000-page Next.js site had two pages hanging for up to 912 seconds, and the caching strategy meant to speed things up was the actual cause, quietly asking the database the same question thousands of times over.

The key takeaway?

💡 Caching that looks correct on a single page can still work against itself at scale, especially on sites with many dynamically filtered pages.

In this article, we cover:

✅ Why the database was never the bottleneck
✅ How a single source-of-truth cache replaced thousands of duplicate entries
✅ The database client changes that eliminated multi-minute outliers
✅ The layout-shift bug hiding in a shared component and how one fix resolved it site-wide

🔗 Full article in the comments.

29/07/2026

Serverless isn't always the cheapest option.

One of our clients' high-traffic Next.js applications had outgrown its serverless architecture and by moving from Lambda@Edge, CloudFront, and S3 to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, we reduced AWS infrastructure costs by ~63% without changing the application itself.

The key takeaway?

💡 Cloud architecture should evolve with your traffic as what works brilliantly at launch may become unnecessarily expensive as your workload grows.

In this article, we cover:

✅ Why serverless became costly
✅ How we migrated with minimal code changes
✅ The architecture decisions that made the difference
✅ Practical do's and don'ts for engineering teams.

Sometimes the biggest optimization is choosing the right one.

🔗 Full article in the comments.

15/06/2026

Presentations suffer from a hidden tax on attention.

When you share your entire screen, you introduce an underlying tension and your brain splits focus between what you are saying and what the room might accidentally see.

We noticed this exact friction during our own client interviews: when notes and presentations compete for the same space, delivery suffers.

We realized this separation shouldn't be managed manually by a stressed presenter, it should be built into the software by design.

The result is a radically focused presentation surface: monochromatic and designed to command an audience's attention without demanding the presenter's cognitive load.

We build software for organizations that refuse to tolerate bad design and clunky workflows.

The engineering breakdown and full Showslide case study are in the first comment below.

12/06/2026

An introduction to how we think about building software in practice. First in a series. Link in comments.

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