(11)Notes
Notes.
Short, occasional posts on building small tools, and where AI actually helps.
- 23 Sept 2026 · 4 min readHow I use AI to build faster (without cutting corners)AI gets you to a working version sooner. It doesn't make the work cheaper or sloppier — the time it saves goes into getting it right.
- 18 Sept 2026 · 3 min readWhy I build small tools instead of big platformsMost businesses don't need a platform. They need the one tool that removes the one annoying manual step.
- 4 Sept 2026 · 3 min readFixed, hourly, or daily — picking the right oneThere's no one correct pricing model. There's a correct one for what you actually know about the work right now.
- 21 Aug 2026 · 3 min readWhen a spreadsheet still wins over a CRMBefore you buy or build a CRM, work out whether you actually have a CRM problem.
- 7 Aug 2026 · 3 min readIs an AR visualizer worth building for your product?Point-your-phone-at-it tools are great for exactly one kind of doubt. Know which one before you build it.
- 24 Jul 2026 · 2 min readThe report you rebuild every Monday morningIf someone spends an hour a week copy-pasting numbers into the same document, that hour is the entire business case.
- 10 Jul 2026 · 3 min readWhat actually goes into a competitor databaseNot a scraper running wild. A small, boring tool that answers the three questions your sales team asks every week.
- 26 Jun 2026 · 3 min readWhere AI actually helps in a small business toolNot the headline feature. Usually the unglamorous middle step nobody wanted to do manually.
- 12 Jun 2026 · 3 min readPWA or native app: what small businesses actually needAlmost always the web app. The app store is a tax you pay for a feature you probably don't need yet.
- 29 May 2026 · 2 min readTraining tools that don't need a full LMSMost small teams don't need a learning management system. They need three good documents and a way to track who's read them.
- 15 May 2026 · 2 min readWhat a scoping call is actually forIt's not a sales call in disguise. It's the fifteen minutes that decides whether this is worth building at all.