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Notes on building Hearso — the product decisions and the engineering ones, written as they happened.

  1. EngineeringThe check whose failure looks like successThe defect class that has produced more bugs in this codebase than any other, and the one fix that works every time.
  2. ProductWhy we made the daily round asyncThe decision that shaped most of the rest of the product, and what it cost.
  3. ProductA question bank encodes whoever wrote itWhy trivia is the easiest team game to start and the easiest to get quietly wrong.
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