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Building something right means walking through it, concretely, step by step, no skipping ahead. 8Examples is a toolkit and a discipline for figuring out what you’re actually building, before you build it.
Most things get built before they're understood.
Someone has an idea. A team jumps into building. Weeks pass. Then comes the moment: this isn’t what I meant.
It’s not a communication failure. It’s a thinking failure. The idea was never expressed concretely enough for anyone, including the person who had it, to really understand what it was.
The expression is the discovery.
You don’t figure out what you want and then describe it. The act of describing it, in concrete examples, in real scenarios, in timelines of what actually happens; that’s how you figure out what you want.
This is why you can’t be lazy about it. You can’t hand someone a vague spec and expect them to read your mind. You can’t skip the walkthrough. You have to sit with it and express it, example by example, until it’s real.
A toolkit, not a methodology.
There’s no rigid process here. Every project has different constraints. What stays constant is the habit: get the people involved to express things in terms of behaviors and timelines. What does this thing actually do? What happens, and when?
The tools exist to force that clarity. You pick the right ones for the situation. Trial and error. But you always come back to the same question: can you walk through this concretely, or are you still hand-waving?
A store where nothing comes in twos.
A disc golf shop where every disc on the shelf is a one-of-one: same mold, different weight, different plastic, different story. We event-modeled the restock workflow before writing any code, then built it exactly as drawn. An append-only ledger, two patient background jobs, and a Shopify catalog that assembles itself.
Read the case study →Three minutes, eighty machines, one report.
An end-to-end Playwright suite that took hours on one machine and ran at night. We walked the timeline of eighty replicas booting in the same second, then built exactly that: a sharded fanout on Azure Container App Jobs, one small function handing out shard numbers over a blob lease, everything in Terraform. Three minutes wall clock, and coverage grew from 20% of use cases to 80%.
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A link, not an account.
An avid photographer and artist wanted friends and family to see the trips without anyone signing up for Facebook. We reduced the access model to one sentence, the admin holds a password, everyone else holds a link, and built exactly that: private shareable links with no guest accounts, an event-sourced ledger in one SQLite file, and a single small server that costs about nothing a month.
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Share the file, skip the account.
A self-hosted file sharing app where authentication exists only where it earns its keep: one admin signs in to upload, and everyone else just clicks an unguessable link. Uploads stream to disk, notes become shareable text files, and everything auto-deletes in an hour unless it is pinned. Tested end to end with a dockerized Playwright suite on every push.
Read the case study →Three thousand databases, nobody watching.
A twenty-year-old estate of stored procedures and triggers, moved to Aurora Postgres by an autonomous loop: schema conversion, AI repair of what the tools could not translate, and a differential test suite proving source and target behave identically. The proof of concept behind a migration engagement now underway at Bloomberg.
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Ink arrives as a webhook.
A property-management SaaS needed legally binding e-signatures: leases, condition reports, and maintenance contracts, signed by landlords, property managers, and any number of tenants. We modeled the signing timeline as events, treated DocuSign as just another user at the front door, and let its webhooks append facts to a ledger; retries, duplicates, and out-of-order callbacks became non-events, and a lease is executed when the fold says every hand has signed.
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