Notes from the build.
What we learned building the products we own and run, including the parts that did not work first time. Written by the people who built them, not by a marketing department.
Recent writing.
Why vans deserve their own auction, and what we are building
Vans are bought, sold and valued differently from cars, yet they are traded through auctions built for cars. We are building a dedicated van auction, and here is the reasoning behind it.
What it takes to build a revision platform that marks handwriting
Ilmino marks typed and handwritten student work against a mark scheme, across a question bank in the tens of thousands. Here is what that actually required, and where the hard parts were.
One codebase, two editions: building EduSpace for schools and universities
Schools and universities look similar from the outside and are not. EduSpace ships as two editions from a single codebase, and the interesting decisions were all about what to share and what to fork.