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Five articles about decisions worth making before larger development work

This is not a technology catalogue or an FAQ. It is a set of five guides to prototyping, tool choice, legacy systems, scale, and maintenance — with concrete points where assumptions should be tested or challenged.

  1. 01PROTOTYPE · TESTING THE IDEA

    Application prototype: what is really worth testing?

    Learn what you can safely build yourself, where risk begins, and when a prototype is already a good enough tool.    Read the article →
  2. 02AI · TOOL CHOICE

    Do you need AI, or is a simple script enough?

    Compare AI with a simple script, cron, SaaS, and APIs while accounting for the cost of mistakes and future maintenance.    Read the article →
  3. 03LEGACY · SAFE DEVELOPMENT

    Legacy without panic: how to safely take over an old app

    Learn the order of an old-application takeover: access, startup, behavior, backup, safe change, and only then a rewrite decision.    Read the article →
  4. 04COLLABORATION · SCALE AND DEVOPS

    What team does an application really need?

    See why user count is not a developer headcount formula and when a one-person studio is enough.    Read the article →
  5. 05MAINTENANCE · HOURS PACKAGE

    How many developer hours does an application need each month?

    See when an hours package makes sense, how it differs from a project and on-call support, and why a cheap first version is not cheap maintenance.    Read the article →

Each text starts with an answer but does not stop there. The goal is to leave you knowing what the smallest sensible next step is.