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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.

These articles are written with AI tools. I review and approve every text before publishing.