Build log
In the open, including the parts that broke.
A short note every few months, plus the big moments. The failures get written down too, because a build log that only contains wins is marketing.
1 September 2026
The site exists
Design system, ten pages and the manifesto are live. The patrol animation is pure SVG and CSS, so the whole site ships about 1.1 KB of JavaScript. Three real bugs found by testing the deployed URL rather than localhost: unknown paths were returning 200 instead of 404, the hero animation loop never stopped and burned battery, and the mobile nav clipped its own button off the right edge at 390px. All three fixed.
31 August 2026
The refusals came first
Before writing a line of the site, the nine commitments were settled and the neighbourhood mesh was declined in writing. It is the most valuable product extension available and it is the one we exist to be the alternative to. Declining it while it is still theoretical is cheap. Declining it later, with revenue attached, would not be.
30 August 2026
Why a drone and why now
On 22 December 2025 the FCC added all foreign-produced drones to its Covered List. DJI, at roughly 70 percent of the global market, can no longer authorise new models for US sale, and estimates $1.5 billion in lost 2026 sales here. Nobody domestic serves the price point being vacated. Everything American and compliant starts around $2,000 and is sold to governments.