The notes I would have wanted at fifteen.
Long form pieces on shipping production systems, scaling SaaS, hiring engineers, AI integration, and the engineering decisions behind Yashveer Labs.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
URL As State: A Pattern Worth Embracing
Working notes on url as state: a pattern worth embracing. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on web app and frontend development from someone who has shipped the work.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
The Empty State Discipline
Why empty states are the most skipped part of every product sprint and why the products that get them right convert and retain better.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
The Onboarding Wizard: A UX and Engineering Discussion
Working notes on the onboarding wizard: a ux and engineering discussion. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on web app and frontend development from someone who has shipped the work.
12 min read
- Web App and Frontend Development
WCAG for Founders: A Practical Subset
WCAG has hundreds of pages and most founders do not need most of them. There is a small subset that catches 90 percent of real accessibility problems, and that subset is what your team should ship by default.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
The Modern Email Builder for SaaS Products
React Email replaces HTML-in-strings for transactional email. Here is the stack, the component patterns, and the deliverability basics every SaaS needs.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
The Accessibility Audit Every Web App Should Pass
The accessibility audit checklist every web app should run before launch. WCAG AA, keyboard nav, screen readers, and what actually fails in production.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
The Forms Problem: React Hook Form vs Formik vs TanStack Form
A direct comparison of the three dominant React form libraries -- performance, validation, TypeScript support, and which to choose for each use case.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
tRPC vs REST vs GraphQL on the Frontend
Working notes on trpc vs rest vs graphql on the frontend. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on web app and frontend development from someone who has shipped the work.
13 min read
- Web App and Frontend Development
The Frontend Architecture That Survives Three Years of Feature Sprawl
The structural decisions that keep a React frontend maintainable after three years and dozens of features -- and the patterns that cause it to collapse.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
Zustand vs Redux vs Jotai vs Recoil vs Context
Five ways to share state in React, with very different tradeoffs and very different teams that should use each. The choice should be driven by the actual shape of your state, not by which library is trending.
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- Web App and Frontend Development
The State Management Question in 2026
Working notes on the state management question in 2026. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on web app and frontend development from someone who has shipped the work.
12 min read
- Web App and Frontend Development
The Modern Web App Stack: A 2026 Survey
The full-stack choices that are stable, well-supported, and worth learning in 2026 -- from framework to database to deployment.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Walk Away
How to know when the right move is to stop, what walking away actually costs, and how to do it without destroying what you built.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Sunset a Product
How to shut down a product responsibly, handle paying customers with respect, and close a chapter without burning relationships or reputation.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Sell the Company
What makes an acquisition offer worth taking, how to evaluate the terms beyond the headline number, and when walking away is the right call.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Sunset a Feature
How to remove a feature customers are actively using without breaking trust, creating churn, or leaving the codebase worse than before.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Build a Second Product
Why most second products fail and what the founders who succeed with them do differently from the beginning.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Productize a Service
When turning a services business into a product is the right move and when it is a way to avoid the harder work of scaling services.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Add Enterprise Sales
When to build an enterprise sales motion, what it costs to run it, and the signals that tell you the timing is right.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Change Pricing
How to reprice a SaaS product without losing existing customers, alienating prospects, or leaving revenue on the table.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Remove a Free Plan
When removing a free plan is the right call, how to handle the migration for existing free users, and what to expect on the other side.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Add a Free Plan
When a free plan accelerates growth and when it cannibalizes revenue, and how to tell the difference before you ship it.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Outsource Customer Support
When outsourcing customer support improves response time and cost, and when it erodes the customer relationship and product feedback loop.
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- Founder Decision Frameworks
The Decision to Hire Your First Operations Person
When operations headcount pays for itself, what the role should cover, and why hiring too early is more damaging than hiring too late.
12 min read
More than blog posts.
The Labs folder has the experiments themselves. The Systems folder has the stack and architecture. The Journey folder has the timeline. Pick whichever pulls you.