Shipping a rental marketplace in eight months
Kamerly connects tenants with rooms across the Netherlands. A look at the decisions that kept an eight-month, six-developer build on schedule.
Blog
Notes from the build.
Engineering write-ups, delivery lessons and updates from the team. 10 articles
Milestone pricing: why we invoice one step at a time
Fixed-price contracts hide risk on one side of the table. Here is the model we use instead, and what it changes for both of us.
AI features that earn their keep
Retrieval, fine-tuning, or nothing at all — how we decide whether an AI feature belongs in a product, and what it costs to run once it does.
Notes on Simplicity
Simplicity isn't the absence of complexity. It's the result of understanding a problem well enough to solve it cleanly.
A Weekend with a Side Project
No stakeholders, no deadlines, no Jira tickets. Just you and a dumb idea that might turn into something.
Designing with Constraints
Limitations aren't obstacles to creativity. They're the structure that makes creativity possible.
Small Tools, Big Impact
The best developer tools do one thing well and get out of your way. A love letter to focused software.
Learning in Public
Writing about what you're learning is the fastest way to find out what you don't actually understand.
The Case for Static
Static sites aren't a step backwards. They're what you get when you take performance and simplicity seriously.
Building for the Long Term
The frameworks will change. The databases will change. What survives is the clarity of your thinking.