Journal, page 5
A new note every day: an app you might need, a feature worth adding, or a technology explained in plain words. Each one with sources.
Modernising a co-operative society's banking software
The members trust the register more than the screen, because the screen has let them down before. A good upgrade has to earn that trust back.
WhatsApp catalogue or your own store?
Both let a buyer order without leaving WhatsApp. They are not the same thing, and the difference matters as you grow.
A field sales app that works offline
Your sales team is in a shop with no signal, taking an order that has to reach your office correctly. That is the real test of a field app.
Tagging a question bank with AI
A question bank with a thousand questions and no tags is really just a very long document.
OEE dashboards straight from your PLC
Most factories track downtime on paper and guess at OEE. Pulling it straight from the PLC gives you numbers you can actually trust and act on.
Tamil speech to text for meeting minutes
A ninety-minute meeting in Tamil and English still has to become minutes by evening. Here is what a speech-to-text tool built for this actually needs.
Serverless hosting: pay only when your app is used
A server you rent all month, whether anyone uses your app or not, is a strange way to pay for software. Serverless hosting charges for actual use instead.
Clinic appointments with WhatsApp reminders
A missed appointment wastes a doctor's slot and the patient's day. A well-timed reminder fixes most of that.
Adding shipping to your store
Once your orders outgrow you carrying parcels to the courier yourself, shipping needs to become part of your store, not an afterthought.
Booking apps for home services
A phone number scrawled on a van works fine at small scale. Here is when it stops working, and what to replace it with.
Attendance apps for schools that teachers will use
The gap between a good attendance app and a good attendance app teachers actually open every morning is bigger than most schools expect.
A technician assistant that answers from your manuals, by voice
A technician with grease on both hands cannot stop to read a 300-page manual. Here is what a voice assistant trained on your own documents can do instead.
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