Pantry apps die of homework
Every pantry app fails the same way: it turns its users into inventory clerks. What happened when I banned quantities from a food product entirely, and why three states beat a barcode scanner.
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Notes from the workshop
First pieces in editField notes on product, founding, and running a build with AI agents. I write the way I work: from real decisions, with the numbers left in. First pieces are in edit now.
Allergens are not a ranking problem
Where the line between deterministic rules and machine learning belongs in a consumer product, and the three fail-open bugs an adversarial audit caught before any beta tester ever cooked a meal.
The cheapest feature is the one you never build
How a hard validation gate saved me from my own enthusiasm: designing the survey your idea has to pass, deploying it to real communities, and being genuinely willing to let it fail.
Running a product org of one
What it actually takes to ship a live, safety-critical consumer app solo with AI agents: decision logs, drift gates, adversarial reviews, and why the discipline matters more than the models.
What chess taught me about roadmaps
The flashy move that loses quietly eight turns later, and other things a rated amateur learns about prioritization the expensive way.
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