The real failure mode Most AI integrations fail quietly. Teams embed API keys directly into applications, route prompts straight to a model provider, and move...
USPS integration inside WooCommerce has always been deceptively complex; on the surface, it looks like a simple problem of requesting rates and displaying them at...
API transitions almost never fail loudly; that is what makes them dangerous. When a shipping API changes authentication, pricing rules, or request structure, most plugins...
When software refuses to monetize you, something subtle happens, the usual signals go quiet, there’s no onboarding funnel nudging you toward an upgrade, no retention...
Boring software has a branding problem, because it doesn’t photograph well, it doesn’t demo cleanly, and it doesn’t generate excitement in a pitch deck, but...
It’s easy to forget how pleasant a modern computer can be when it isn’t constantly negotiating with the outside world, because most people have never...
Local-first is often presented as a feature, something optional you can toggle on or off, a nice-to-have bullet point alongside sync and cloud backup and...
Subscriptions didn’t arrive because software suddenly became more expensive to build, they arrived because pricing something once requires honesty, and honesty is limiting, you have...
