INSIGHTS

Notes from the work.

Short notes on how we scope, design, build and ship software.

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Engineering

The handover is part of the product.

What owning your software really means, with a checklist you can run on any system.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO7 min read
Engineering

Good software starts before the first line of code.

Why we map the work before writing code, and how it shaped Test-Start's data model.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO3 min read
AI

AI should solve a problem. Not become one.

Three questions we ask before adding AI to a product, and how they shaped Instruktori AI.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO4 min read
SaaS

Build an MVP with somewhere to grow.

What to keep simple on day one, what to build for growth, and what to cut.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO6 min read
AI

What an AI assistant should refuse to answer.

Why limits make an assistant better, and how we check its answers against a source.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO5 min read
Business

Fixed scope or long-term partnership?

How to choose between a defined project and an ongoing partner, and when to switch.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO4 min read
Engineering

Multilingual is a data problem.

How we build for many languages from the first schema, and what goes wrong later.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO6 min read
Design

Fast is a design decision.

Why we set a speed budget before design starts, and what we measure.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO5 min read
Business

How we scope a project in one week.

What we ask before we estimate, and what a one-page architecture note looks like.

Agan Aliu · Founder, ALYNO6 min read