Writing about how we build the things we build — stack choices, engineering trade-offs, and lessons from real client work. Aimed at fellow engineers and technically-curious founders.
A play-by-play of a bespoke Applicant Tracking System build — from empty repo to a production system running a large hiring pipeline. What we cut, what we kept, and what we'd do again.
Every year we get asked "what should we build our internal tool in?". A grown-up comparison of the three most-shortlisted stacks for a mid-sized bespoke app, from a shop that has shipped in all three.
Why we ship a keyword scorer as the default and only reach for the LLM as a fallback — plus the specific decisions that keep the whole thing auditable, cheap, and defensible in an HR compliance review.
More posts monthly. Get in touch to suggest a topic.
