How to not build your application
Seven hard-won lessons for first-time product builders: ship fast, resist feature requests, outsource ruthlessly. Technology scales a solution. It does not create one.
Saturday, February 28, 2026 Independent Writing
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Software, stories, and the world they're built in.
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Take a step back. Grow up for a second.
Before writing a single line of code, ask whether the solution is actually an app. The most dangerous instinct in software is reaching for code before thinking.
The Idea
A noisy WhatsApp exam group and a frustrated class prefect sparked the idea for Chanl, a cleaner way for groups to communicate.