This retrospective, including its project and numbers, is sample content.

On Friday evening I set one constraint: put a small “read later organizer” in front of real people before Sunday ended. The goal was not to finish every feature. It was to learn whether anyone would trust a new tool with their scattered links.

Cut the clever features first

The original list included AI summaries, automatic tags, full-text search, and cross-device sync. Every idea was reasonable, and none was necessary for the first question.

The final flow had three steps: save a link, write one sentence about why it matters, and receive a weekly review email.

Write the landing page before the code

Before opening the editor, I answered three questions: who is this for, when does the problem appear, and why are current habits not enough?