Building a startup is a constant exercise in making trade-offs.
Spent today reviewing engineering audits, validating production readiness, and deciding where the team should focus next. Sometimes the biggest progress comes from knowing what not to build next.
Everyone loves shipping new features.
Today, I made sure the existing ones were worth keeping.
Verified our matching engine, shipped production-grade ban enforcement, audited email engagement, and cleaned up SEO.
None of it is flashy.
Every future user benefits from it.
Today wasn’t about shipping a new feature.
Cleaned up 90+ stale Git branches, organized our repo, and finished V1 of Kovari’s email engagement system.
It’s the kind of work nobody notices, but it helps us build faster every day.
Back at it tomorrow.
We kicked off planning Kovari’s public launch today.
Then I spent the next few hours making our messaging system simpler and more reliable.
Funny how I’m starting to realize the biggest product wins are often the ones users never notice.
planning trips is weirdly broken.
go solo and wing it
or plan with random people where nothing aligns.
people drop.
plans change.
vibes don’t match.
so we started building something for this.
find the right people before the trip starts.
waitlist: https://t.co/1THAD2BR7L