We are gathered here today to remember smart ball v1. It was a football. It had smart football sensors inside. It never shipped. Rest in peace, little guy. This is the eulogy, and also a beginner's guide to why hardware is hard. If you have ever wa...

Every founder has a moment where they say, "Fine. I'll do it myself." Mine came with a very specific smell. The smell of PHP and a design from another decade. This post is about outsourcing app development vs building it yourself. I've done the firs...

Cover photo: Adrià Crehuet Canohttps://unsplash.com/@acrehuet98 on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/children-playing-soccer-LIhB1mAGhY Most startup stories begin with a vision. Mine began with a complaint. Not even my complaint. Two other people...

Building a product is one job. Keeping it alive is a completely different job. Nobody warns you about the second one. Or they do, and you don't listen. I didn't listen. This post is my production outage lessons, learnt the expensive way. One backen...