Writing
Notes from the studio.
Occasional writing on building focused software — what we ship, what we cut, and why we keep it to one product at a time.
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How we use Airflow and Astronomer to find restaurants worth talking to
Finding independent restaurants that would benefit from a better menu is a data pipeline problem. Here are the technologies we point at it — Apache Airflow, Astronomer, BigQuery, and a little Gemini.
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The stack behind 1prairie.menu
A plain inventory of the technologies we build on — the Google Cloud services, the open-source frameworks, and the deliberate decisions about what we don't run ourselves.
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Introducing 1prairie.menu: your menu, on every customer's phone
Our first product is an AI assistant for independent restaurants. Hand it a photo of your printed menu — it builds a fast mobile menu and a print-ready QR code.