Thinking from David and the team on building systems that last.
David Cordover · Inspections, the defect queue, reseal planning and claim defence packs, all driven by the council's own Road Management Plan. Click through the working mockup yourself.
Read the article: We built a council road management platform.David Cordover · Hundreds of emails a day and an empty inbox by the end of it. The method is simple: touch each email once, check at set times, and let Gmail do the sorting.
Read the article: Dealing with emails.David Cordover · Pet registration lived in the core system and permits lived in a spreadsheet. We fixed it with a working, click-through mockup built in about an hour.
Read the article: We built a council pet registration system in one hour.David Cordover · A 0.1% chance at $1B, or a 90% chance at $1M? Maybe the right question isn't how big you could build, but how much you actually need.
Read the article: Do you want a billion, or a million?Businesses doing $5–50M in revenue, and especially those around $15M.
You already have a working model, and you're running it, not testing it. Owners who've been through a custom software build before and know the real cost isn't the build.