When is a customer actually gone?
A thirty day lapsed window is wrong for nearly every customer, and wrong in both directions at once. What to use instead, and what it cannot tell you.
What an accelerator is actually for
One of nine from about 1,700 applicants, ten weeks in, company wound down. What the programme was genuinely worth, and what it could never have fixed.
Why we wound Presterly down
34 Shopify stores and €19M of order history in ten weeks, then we stopped. It was not the product and it was not the market. A founder's post-mortem.
Building a CRT that behaves like a CRT
Most CRT effects are a scanline overlay and some glow. Deriving everything from one premise, a beam painting phosphor, gets you somewhere better.
Multi-tenant Shopify apps: what I'd get right first
Building multi-tenant Shopify apps: the decisions that were expensive to change and the ones that turned out not to matter at all.