Product Engineering
5 articles in this topic.
Your product probably doesn't need a chatbot
A practical decision process for AI product features: user uncertainty, authoritative calculations, templates, privacy, and the smallest useful interaction.
Build a Local Review Screen for Video AI Results
Build a local video AI website: a player plus tabs for the summaries, scene lists, search rankings and Jockey answers you saved in chapters 2–5. No new API calls; synthetic demo included.
Introducing mntn passport: A Mountain Passport for Hikers
Meet mntn passport, a hiking app coming to iOS and Android that turns summits, total vertical, and friends’ nearby climbs into a personal mountain history.
Introducing Gwhen: The App That Tells You the Best Time to Go Outside
Weather apps give you data. Gwhen gives you a time. Here is why I built an app that answers “when is the best time to run, ride or walk today” with a single window instead of a forecast.
Building tinymissions: Why I Removed AI from the Critical Path
My first instinct was to put an LLM at the center of my new product. Then I realized the best thing AI could do for it was stay out of the runtime entirely.
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