Notes on building.
Guides on mobile apps, web platforms and AI products. Cost breakdowns, stack comparisons and how we ship.
How to Build a Car Wash and Auto Detailing Booking App 2026
The US car wash industry tops $15 billion and mobile detailing is its fastest growing segment. Here is exactly how to build a booking app that captures recurring revenue from day one.
How to build · Jun 6, 2026 · 13 min read
How to Build a B2B E-Commerce Wholesale Platform From Scratch
B2B wholesale buyers expect custom pricing, bulk discounts, and net-30 terms. Here is how to build a B2B ecommerce wholesale platform that handles the complexity consumer storefronts never touch.
How to build · Jun 5, 2026 · 15 min read
How to Build an Automated Employee Offboarding System for SaaS
Manual offboarding takes 4+ hours per departure and leaves orphaned accounts everywhere. Here is how to build an automated system that revokes access in minutes, not days.
How to build · Jun 5, 2026 · 13 min read
How to Build an Incident Response Platform for SaaS Teams 2026
Most SaaS teams duct-tape their incident process together with Slack threads and spreadsheets until something breaks badly enough to cost real money. Here is how to build a proper incident response platform before that happens.
How to build · Jun 2, 2026 · 14 min read
How to Build App Clips and Instant Apps for Mobile Growth 2026
App Clips and Instant Apps let users try your product without installing anything. Here is how to build them, trigger them, and convert those users into full app installs.
How to build · Jun 2, 2026 · 14 min read
How to Build Live Activities and Dynamic Island Features in Apps
Live Activities and Dynamic Island are two of the most underused engagement tools on iOS. Here is how to actually build them, from ActivityKit basics to push token updates and cross-platform bridges.
How to build · Jun 2, 2026 · 14 min read
How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace: Cold Start Playbook 2026
Every marketplace dies the same way: no supply, no demand, no transactions. This playbook gives you the exact cold start strategies that Uber, Airbnb, and DoorDash used to break through, and how to apply them to your platform in 2026.
How to build · Jun 1, 2026 · 15 min read
How to Build a Context Engineering Pipeline for AI Products
Most AI products fail because they feed the model garbage context, not because the model is dumb. Here is how to build a context engineering pipeline that actually works in production.
How to build · Jun 1, 2026 · 15 min read
How to Build a Reverse ETL Pipeline for Your SaaS Product
Your warehouse is full of clean, modeled data. Your sales and support teams are still copying numbers into spreadsheets. Reverse ETL closes that gap by pushing warehouse data into the tools your team actually uses.
How to build · Jun 1, 2026 · 14 min read
How to Build an MLOps Pipeline for Production AI From Scratch
Most teams can train a model. Very few can ship one reliably, monitor it, retrain it, and keep costs under control. Here is how to build an MLOps pipeline that actually works in production.
How to build · Jun 1, 2026 · 15 min read
How to Build an API Monetization Platform for Developer Products
If you have an API that developers want to use, the next question is how to charge for it without killing adoption. This guide covers pricing models, metering, billing, and everything in between.
How to build · Jun 1, 2026 · 14 min read
How to Build an Agentic Commerce Storefront With UCP in 2026
AI shopping agents are replacing browse-and-click storefronts. Here is how to build an agentic commerce storefront on the Universal Commerce Protocol so agents can discover, compare, and buy products on behalf of your customers.
How to build · May 25, 2026 · 15 min read