Gravelship Insights

Insights is where we write about running a small software company and building products — company news, engineering decisions we've lived with, and honest observations about what operational software does (and doesn't) fix. No content-marketing filler: if a post exists, it's because there was something worth saying.

Coming up: what running CalmRota in production teaches us about building for other people's operations, the boring-but-load-bearing choices behind a site that scores 100 across Lighthouse, and what "you own the code" means in practice when a client actually leaves. If there's a topic you'd like an honest take on, suggest it.

Looking for practical commissioning advice — costs, trade-offs, how to brief a project? That lives in our plain-English guides.