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The Feature Request I Say No To Every Time
The one request that shows up in every product's inbox, and the exact reason I turn it down…
The Lab · Written in the open · Tagged Operations
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
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The Kill Switch Every RAXXO Tool Ships With
A two-day gap between finding a bug and shipping the fix taught me every risky feature needs an instant off switch, not just a future patch.
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- Every RAXXO tool ships with a kill switch that can turn off one feature or the whole tool in under a minute, no redeploy required
- I built the first one the night Git Dojo's parser choked on a git log format I had never tested against
- The switch lives in three places at once, a flag, a status note, and a fallback UI state, so a user never lands on a blank screen
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How I Decide What to Build Next at a One-Person Studio
The one-sentence filter that decides which ideas earn a build slot and which ones get cut before I…
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The Solo Studio Stack: What I Pay For and What I Self-Host
Subscriptions I keep pay back 5-10 hours weekly, self-host handles predictable batch work
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The 5 Metrics I Check Weekly and the Ones I Ignore
Weekly review runs under 10 minutes with 5 tracked numbers
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Pricing a Digital Product as a Solo Studio
Three-question framework: floor, ceiling, anchor before any product ships