📰 Dev.to · Matt Senter

Every product needs auth, payments, and email, and almost none of that is the reason the product exists. Here is how we decide what to build and what to rent in

The stack is the substrate every future change runs through, and the wrong one costs you quietly for years. Here is how we choose one, why we pick boring on pur

A studio builds the MVP, then leaves. The handoff is where that value is kept or lost. Here is how we hand a codebase to an in-house team so the team can keep m

The most valuable thing a studio can tell a founder is sometimes that the MVP should not exist yet. Here is the test we run before writing a line of code, and w

A generated site looks finished and is not. Here is the full list of production work that separates a convincing demo from a site that actually ranks, loads, an

Long prompts fail quietly: the model honors one instruction and drops another. Treating prompts as versioned, reviewable infrastructure fixes the failure mode.

Speed is not the advantage anymore. Doing the same thing correctly every time, across every project, without relying on memory, is what compounds into a durable

The first engineer sets the habits your codebase keeps for years, and you cannot yet read the work. Here is how we help non-technical founders make that hire wi

Not a rewrite, and not a roadmap deck. A concrete account of the first month of a fractional CTO engagement: what gets audited, what gets fixed, and what gets l

Most early startups do not have an operations problem. They have a founder who has quietly become the operations. Here is how to tell, and what a fractional COO

Technical founders ship, then go quiet. This is the go-to-market checklist we run for our own products: positioning, launch surfaces, SEO, and the measurement t

AI writes the components in minutes. The boring production work is what still takes days. Here is how Senternet encodes that work as reusable Claude Code skills

Shipping an MVP in weeks is not about working faster. It is about removing the decisions, the setup, and the rework that consume most of a first build.

An honest account of the failure modes we hit every week: over-refactoring, invented architecture, silent layout regressions, and instructions followed halfway.

The nonprofit we co-founded and built end to end just received its IRS 501(c)(3) determination. Here is why the paperwork, not the app, is the part that proves

A few weeks ago, BeeReady officially received its 501(c)(3) determination from the IRS. On paper,...

I recently left my role at Superlogic. I am not leaving technology. I am not stepping away from ...

I Built Reusable Claude Code Skills to Ship Production Websites Faster Most AI-generated...