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Decisions and the reasoning behind them, including the ones that turned out wrong. Written by the people who made them rather than by somebody asked to make them sound good.
RELEASE NOTES · 2026-08-25
Spaces: one home for every part of your life
There used to be three kinds of shared place in Buhata. Now there's one, called a Space, and it works the same whether it holds your family, a trip, or a small business.
DEVELOPER UPDATE · 2026-08-09
Support without a phone number
There's no phone number. Why, what I built instead, and what actually happens to a message after you send it.
BEHIND THE SCENES · 2026-08-09
The goal, written down in public
I want Buhata to be the app a household opens first. Saying it out loud so I've got to keep looking at it after launch, not only before.
BEHIND THE SCENES · 2026-08-09
What bank sync would actually cost
Bank feeds and app integrations are the most requested things I haven't built. What they really cost, and why the answer is later rather than never.
HOW IT WORKS · 2026-08-02
Everything saves to your phone first
Your entries land on your own device before anything touches the network. Here's what that cost to build.
BEHIND THE SCENES · 2026-08-01
One price for the whole house
Charging per person makes sense for a company and none at all for a family. The reasoning I actually used, and where the money goes.
DEVELOPER UPDATE · 2026-07-28
Three bugs I was sure I understood
Three faults in Buhata that looked like nothing. What each one cost me to find.
HOW IT WORKS · 2026-07-28
When the microphone gets it wrong
Nothing gets written until you confirm it. A walk through the ladder a sentence climbs before it turns into an entry.
BEHIND THE SCENES · 2026-07-01
Where the name came from
I stopped painting for fourteen years. One afternoon I bought paint anyway, and a week later I started building this.
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