What building escrow taught us about state machines
Money moving between two parties is the clearest case we know for modelling state explicitly rather than inferring it from a handful of boolean…
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Category: Engineering
How we actually build things: architecture decisions, the trade-offs behind them, and what we would do differently the second time around.
A prompt is not a product
A general assistant will attempt anything and promises nothing, so there is nothing to hold it to. BotUp sells AI work the other way…
ReadWhy we built a freelance marketplace that takes no commission
Every marketplace deducts a share of what freelancers earn to fund a trust problem that escrow already solves. Open Lance is the version that…
ReadSaaS vs. Custom Software: Which Fits Your Business?
Buy what is not your differentiator and build what is. The difficulty is that the boundary moves, and integration costs are routinely underestimated.
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