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Notes on architecture, leadership, AI integration, and practical engineering tradeoffs.
22 March 2026
IsleList - The challenge we saw and accepted!
We built IsleList in less than a week after seeing the same problem come up again and again on Facebook: local buying and selling on islands was fragmented, hard to search, and spread across too many groups. Larger platforms do not always support places like the Isle of Man properly either, so we decided to build a modern local marketplace that fel
# Why we built IsleList ## The problem we kept seeing Over the last few months, I kept seeing the same kind of post come up on Facebook. People were asking where they were actually supposed to buy and sell things locally now. Not in theo...
22 March 2026
Why We Built Ancello
Family history isn’t just about collecting names and dates — it’s about making sense of scattered information over time. We built Ancello to reduce that friction, using AI to help organise research, transcribe records, and make it easier to understand the connections within your own data.
# Why We Built Ancello We didn’t set out to build a genealogy product. We started with a much simpler frustration: family history is messy. If you’ve ever tried to build a family tree properly — not just names and dates, but actual conte...