Simplicity is the Strategy – day 35

Day 35 – Simplicity is the Strategy By Day 35, we found ourselves coming back to one of the earliest principles we discussed when SWAIN was just an idea: simplicity. Not just in terms of UI or onboarding, but as a guiding strategy across everything — process,...

The Magic Button– day 34

Day Thirty-Four – The Magic Button If you’ve ever built APIs, you know this pain:Modelling the data. Mapping the relationships. Writing the endpoints. Testing them. Adjusting. Documenting. Hours lost in boilerplate and backend glue. What if you could press a button...

Talent, Trust and Teamwork – day 33

Day 33 – Talent, Trust and Teamwork  As we continued to build SWAIN, the conversations shifted from product to people. Day 33 was one of those moments that reminded us how much the right team shapes the trajectory of a product — not just through skills, but...

Expanding the Circle – day 32

Day 32 – Expanding the Circle By this stage of the journey, something had shifted. Up until now, most of what we were doing was internal. We had made SWAIN work. We had generated real endpoints. But now came the question of reach. Who else could this matter to? Who...

Under the Hood – day 31

Day Thirty-One – Polish, Complexity, and AI Principles Today we got under the hood. Taqi finished a major component of the tool — one that’s been quietly powering things behind the scenes via command line. Now comes the harder bit: turning raw functionality into a...