June 2026
When the Payment Provider Says No: Resetting Holdie as a Free Beta
A detour through a Lemon Squeezy rejection, some honest doubt about the product, and why a free beta period turned out to be the right call.
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Thoughts on building products, entrepreneurship, and technology.
May 2026
Making a Folder of Recipe PDFs Actually Useful
How I turned a disorganised collection of saved recipes into a browsable, searchable tool with a single Claude artifact.
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Cash-Up Without the Arguments
A tiny calculator I built so poker night ends with everyone getting paid correctly, not with someone double-checking the maths on their phone.
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Building an Interactive Data Visualisation in a Single Conversation
How I went from a question about NBA draft history to a shareable, interactive visualisation without writing a line of code.
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From Side Project to Paid Product: Iterating Holdie With Claude Code
A follow-up on what changed after the first article: payments, email, imports, observability, and what the development process actually looks like day to day.
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How I Built Two Apps Without a Development Team
A plain-English explanation of how Holdie and Shelfie are built, what services power them, and what it would take to grow them further.
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