Insights & field notes

Honest write-ups from inside our projects — what worked, what didn't, and what we'd do differently.

Engineering article
ENGINEERING·8 min

The Next.js settings we change on every new project

Caching, image config, runtime, headers — six tiny tweaks that consistently win Core Web Vitals before we write a line of code.

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Team collaborating
PROCESS·6 min

Why we kill 30% of feature ideas before a single sprint

Our pre-mortem template. It costs a one-hour meeting and saves entire quarters of wasted build time.

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Growth analytics
GROWTH·10 min

The SEO checklist every B2B site should run before launch

22 items. We've found at least 8 broken on every audit we've ever done. Bookmark this one.

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Cloud infrastructure
INFRASTRUCTURE·14 min

Cutting AWS bills by 63% without slowing anyone down

A real cost-optimization audit on a $19k/mo bill. Findings: reserved instances, S3 lifecycle, and one Lambda gone wild.

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Design workspace
DESIGN·7 min

Design systems for 4-person teams: a pragmatic primer

You don't need 200 components. You need 18 well-named ones and a habit. Here's the starter kit.

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Mobile dev
MOBILE·9 min

React Native vs Flutter in 2026: our updated take

We've shipped 14 apps across both. Honest comparison: ecosystem, hiring, performance, and where each shines.

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Business strategy
STRATEGY·5 min

The "smallest viable proof" template we use with every founder

A one-page worksheet that's killed more bad ideas and unblocked more good ones than any other meeting we run.

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AI generated
AI·11 min

Evals are the new tests: how we measure LLM features

The full eval framework we use — golden datasets, judge prompts, regression gates, and the CI step everyone forgets.

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E-commerce
E-COMMERCE·8 min

Going headless on Shopify: when it pays, when it doesn't

We've done six headless migrations. Three were great wins. Three were expensive lessons. The decision tree.

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