Founder notes on building AI products that ship. Engineering, hiring, and the unglamorous work behind sound systems.
Building got dramatically cheaper and faster — but AI adds a running model bill most quotes ignore. The honest breakdown of build cost vs. the cost that never stops.
Not a cheap version, not a prototype. What an MVP actually is, what it isn't, and why building one got faster and cheaper in 2026.
The honest answer is a range. What actually drives the number, real ballpark tiers, and how to spend a lot less without wrecking the product.
How we think about ICP, why "more bodies" is the wrong answer for early product, and where staffing agencies actually win.
A real technical story — not slides. Slug formats, dispatch tables, lazy mode chunks, adversarial review on every Stripe diff.
Resumes lie. Interviews lie less but still lie. Here's the small set of signals I actually trust now.
