4 essays tagged product.
This site runs without analytics, tracking scripts, or cookies. Here is what that stance buys you as a visitor, and what it costs us to keep.
There is no roadmap page here and there are no launch dates. Products appear when they are ready to use. The quiet is deliberate, and it has a cost we accept.
Local-first software keeps your data on your device, yours by default. That buys speed, privacy, and ownership, at a real cost we would rather name than hide.
A prototype's job is not to impress. It is to answer the most dangerous open question as cheaply as possible, and sometimes to tell you not to build the thing at all.