The pitch for Pendi was easy to say and harder to ship. Here’s how it came together, what I picked, and the parts that fought back.
The approach
I started with [the smallest thing that proved the idea — a prototype / spike / paper sketch]. The goal was to answer one question: [the riskiest assumption you needed to validate] before investing more.
[One sentence on what that early version told you.]
The stack
Built with [stack — language, framework, runtime]:
- Frontend: [framework / approach]
- Backend / data: [framework, database, storage]
- Infra / deploy: [where it runs, how it ships]
- Notable libraries: [the 1-2 dependencies that mattered]
Why this stack over the alternatives? [Short, honest reason — speed, familiarity, a constraint.]
Key decisions
- [Decision one] — chose [option] over [alternative] because [tradeoff].
- [Decision two] — [what you decided and the constraint that drove it].
- [Decision three] — [a thing you scoped down or deferred on purpose].
The hard part
The thing that took the longest was [the genuinely hard problem — e.g. a sync issue, a performance wall, an API quirk].
[paste the gnarly bit — the function, query, config, or error
that captures the problem and/or the fix][Explain in two sentences what was going wrong and how you got past it.]
What I’d change
- [Something you’d do differently next time.]
- [A piece of tech debt you knowingly took on.]
- [The next feature or refactor on the list.]
If you want the full tour, the code is here: [link to repo].
Code walkthrough: Watch on YouTube — placeholder; replace with the real video link.