Why I ship playable prototypes instead of decks

Most product ideas die in a doc. They read well, get a few nods in review, and quietly never happen. The ones that survive tend to have one thing in common: someone built enough of the thing that you could actually use it.

Documents describe. Prototypes reveal.

A spec can hide a hundred unanswered questions behind confident prose. A prototype can't. The moment you try to click through it, the hand-waved parts collapse — and that collapse is the most valuable feedback you'll get.

AI changed the math

The reason we defaulted to documents was cost. Building was expensive and slow, so we argued on paper first. AI-assisted development changes that trade: a rough-but-real version now costs days, not quarters. When the cost of trying drops below the cost of debating, you should just try.

If it's cheaper to build the answer than to argue about it, build the answer.

That's the whole philosophy behind this site. Everything here is real, playable, and occasionally broken — because that's what honest work looks like while it's still being figured out.