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I built the Track My Academy mobile apps myself. Both of them. Android and iOS. The Android app is live in production. The iOS app is coming soon. That second line is the honest one. It's also the one every solo founder ends up writing at some poin...

An earlier post ended with a promise. Sort of. In the night I broke productionhttps://www.rahuldk.in/blog/the-night-i-broke-production, an expired SSL certificate on our backend domain failed silently. It took us about four hours to find it. I staye...

Cover photo: Evan Marvellhttps://unsplash.com/@evanmarvell on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/two-men-at-a-table-with-a-laptop-uzBZnacIKgQ On 8 and 9 October, I sat on the other side of the table. I was on the jury of a hackathon at VISTAS. It ...

We are gathered here today to remember smart ball v1. It was a football. It had smart football sensors inside. It never shipped. Rest in peace, little guy. This is the eulogy, and also a beginner's guide to why hardware is hard. If you have ever wa...

Every founder has a moment where they say, "Fine. I'll do it myself." Mine came with a very specific smell. The smell of PHP and a design from another decade. This post is about outsourcing app development vs building it yourself. I've done the firs...

Cover photo: Adrià Crehuet Canohttps://unsplash.com/@acrehuet98 on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/children-playing-soccer-LIhB1mAGhY Most startup stories begin with a vision. Mine began with a complaint. Not even my complaint. Two other people...

Building a product is one job. Keeping it alive is a completely different job. Nobody warns you about the second one. Or they do, and you don't listen. I didn't listen. This post is my production outage lessons, learnt the expensive way. One backen...