Writing
On building products for founders: what to build first, what it costs to run, and finishing.
Taste and finishing are the whole job now
Anyone can generate an app in an afternoon. Why taste and actually finishing are what get a product noticed, and how I work with founders because of it.
How I keep an MVP cheap to run
The stack choices that decide your monthly bill: managed backends, edge functions instead of always-on servers, and when to pay for a service instead of building it.
Building Dulce alone: phone, watch and widgets
What it took to build and launch Dulce, a diabetes app for iOS, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS, as a single developer, and why I now have paying subscribers.
Tremap: 15 million trees on a map
How I built Tremap's iOS and Android apps, web portal and map API as the only engineer: 15.5 million tree points, Stripe billing, QR and NFC labels and offline mode.