Insights from people who build products

How to add live or on-demand video to a product: choose WebRTC or HLS by the delay your viewers accept, rent encoding and delivery, build access, payments and interaction yourself, and follow the app store rules for selling video.

What technological sustainability means for a software product: the places an app wastes energy and money, how to measure it, and the changes that cut both the footprint and the cloud bill.

A pivot changes one core part of your plan and keeps what you’ve learned. The signals that say it’s time, a runway check, five pivot strategies and what each one keeps from your code, and how to make the call.

A redesign is often bought to fix falling sales, and done as one big relaunch it can make things worse. Here is how to tell if you need one, how to do it in tested steps, the 2026 rules on redirects, accessibility and speed, and what design work costs.

How to choose a database for a new app: why we start with one PostgreSQL database, when Redis or a second store earns its place, and the backup and ownership checks to make before launch.

A restaurant app earns its cost on regulars: loyalty, ordering ahead, booking and a direct line that skips the delivery platforms’ commission. Seven reasons to build one, the test for each, Apple’s template-app rule, and what it costs.

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On a time and material contract you pay for the hours actually spent and can change priorities as you learn. How the bill is built, why even governments cap it, five controls that keep the budget in check, and when T&M is the wrong choice.

Game mechanics help in a banking app when they reward something good for the customer. Five mechanics compared, prize-linked saving, the 2026 rules from the EU, the FCA and Apple, lessons from our reward apps, and how to check that a rewards feature pays for itself.

A researcher finds and screens candidates; a recruiter takes them from first interview to offer. Here is how the roles differ, when to split them, what the 2026 hiring numbers and EU AI rules mean for founders, and when you need neither to staff a product build.

Swimlane sizing is a silent, relative way to size a whole backlog fast: cards go into unlabeled lanes from small to large, and numbers come only at the end. The full process, how fast it is, how it compares with planning poker, what it can’t tell you, and how to turn a sized backlog into a budget.

A connected product has three parts that move at different speeds: device, cloud and app. The life cycle from prototype to end of support, the challenge at each stage, and the EU security and reporting rules that now set deadlines for the whole team.