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2026-06-12 prose

Home cooking · outline

every user of my software is in my contacts
- I get to skip most of the product work
  - nothing to market, nothing to A/B test
  - I can ask at dinner
- the software still has to be easy
  - the bar: family figures it out in ten seconds, without texting me
- decisions get smaller
  - hardcode what a commercial product would make configurable
  - skip explanations meant for strangers
- the circle stays loose: sometimes a friend brings a friend to dinner
- no business model, and not looking for one
  - nothing needs the users' data, so the data stays theirs