Engineering, product, and design notes from the Pixel Breeders team.
Every founder writes the functional requirements. Almost none write the non-functional ones, and those are what decide the price of the build and what happens on launch day.
What story points actually measure, why nobody will convert them into hours for you, and the one conversion you can run yourself without corrupting the estimate.
Frontend and backend explained for the non-technical founder: how to brief precisely, read an estimate, and tell whether a bug is front or back.
Market validation is proving people will pay before you build. A non-technical founder's guide to testing real demand with commitment signals, not compliments.
Agile methodology explained for the person paying for the build, not for the people on the team: what it buys you, what it asks, and how to tell…
A user story is the smallest unit of a build brief. Here's the template, the four checks that separate a buildable story from a landmine, and a worked…
What is a sprint? The fixed two-week cycle that turns an outsourced build into something you control, without becoming a tech manager.
A statement of work defines exactly what you're paying a vendor to build. Here's how to read one, and the clauses that decide who eats the cost.
A backlog is the prioritized list of what's still left to build in your product. Why it's yours, not your dev's, and how to prioritize it without code.
A two-sided marketplace is two products plus a matching engine. A non-technical founder's guide to the cold-start problem, what to build first, and what to fake.
