Side Projects
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A Starter You Actually Maintain
I spent three weeks at a logistics startup trying to build the “perfect” automated scaffolding engine, complete with custom CLI tools and complex CI/CD abstractions.…
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Keep the Parts, Throw Away the Product
I’ve spent enough time in production incidents to know that most “architectural advice” is just expensive noise designed to make engineers feel important. People love…
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The Script Three Colleagues Asked for
I remember sitting in a dark apartment at 3 AM during my logistics startup days, staring at a Python script that was supposed to “just…
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Build for the Job You Already Did
I spent three months last year trying to build a SaaS tool for a market I thought was “lucrative” based on a few Twitter threads…
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Talk to Five Users and Stop Theorising
I’ve sat through enough “UX Research Workshops” to know they’re mostly just expensive ways to learn how to ask leading questions. Most of these polished,…
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Let the Logs Choose the Roadmap
I spent three months at a logistics startup building a highly sophisticated analytics dashboard because the product manager had a “hunch” based on a single,…
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Half Your Features Have No Users
I spent three weeks of my life at a logistics startup building a sophisticated telemetry pipeline, all so we could track every single click, hover,…
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Raising the Price Without Losing Everyone
I remember sitting in a dimly lit office during my time at that logistics startup, watching the Slack channels explode because we’d tried to be…
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One Feature Can Be Worth Money
I spent three weeks building a specialized log parser during a particularly brutal stint at a logistics startup, only to realize I had no idea…
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Docs Pay Off at User Number Two
I once spent three hours in a dark Slack thread trying to explain a simple API change to a DevOps engineer who just wanted to…