Insights

Notes from the workshop.

Pricing

Fixed price beats hourly in the AI era

Hourly billing rewards slowness. When one engineer plus AI ships what used to take a team, hourly rates lie about the value delivered. Fixed price aligns everyone on the outcome — a working product — instead of the clock.

Craft

What vibe-code rescue is and when you need it

A prototype from Lovable, Bolt or Replit is a beautiful skeleton. Production needs muscle: proper auth boundaries, a data model that survives real traffic, error paths, observability, deployment. A rescue is the six days that turn a demo into a business.

Playbook

How one builder ships a two-country marketplace

One person, one architecture, two countries. The trick is reusable primitives: a listing engine that speaks both markets, a payment layer that swaps rails, a translation layer that scales beyond two languages. AI writes the boilerplate; the human owns the decisions.