09 / Notes from the work
Notes from the
work.
Practical thinking about building, launching and improving digital products. Insights exists to share useful observations from real product and engineering work, not to fill a calendar.
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Thoughtful, concise notes for founders, operators and teams making software decisions.
How much should an MVP actually include?
An MVP is not the cheapest possible version of a product. It is the smallest coherent version that lets you test the important assumption.
When RAG is the right choice for an AI chatbot
RAG gives a chatbot a way to look up relevant business information before it answers. That is useful in some situations, and unnecessary in others.
What a small business really needs from an e-commerce website
Selling online does not require an Amazon clone. It requires a clear catalogue, a dependable order path and operations your team can actually run.
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