Issue index / 3 disciplines / 14 minutes
Notes from the workbench.
Field notes on consultancy work, architecture, estimation, launches, and the small choices behind premium software.
Two weeks to a membership portal.
An independent publisher needed subscriptions, gated reading, and a community wall, and the runway said two weeks. Notes on what I cut to make it ship.
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Serverless for the uncertain launch.
When a founder cannot predict their first month of traffic, the architecture should cost almost nothing while nobody is using it. Notes on idle, cold starts, and the bills you would rather not sign.
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How I design a landing page.
Notes on the UI and UX choices behind Maktoob's landing page, where modern tooling speeds up the drafts, and which decisions still belong to a human.
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Don't reinvent the wheel.
ToyCar Showroom needed an e-commerce platform and a personal-garage feature that did not exist anywhere else. A note on which one I built and which one I refused to.
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