BongoBravo journalWhat we built, what it cost, what broke.https://bongobravo.com/How a studio called BongoBravo got its namehttps://bongobravo.com/journal/how-bongobravo-got-its-name/https://bongobravo.com/journal/how-bongobravo-got-its-name/A drum, an antelope, and a rule about never being hard to spell on the phone.We kill a product if it has no paying users in 60 dayshttps://bongobravo.com/journal/kill-rule-60-days/https://bongobravo.com/journal/kill-rule-60-days/The rule we set before we started, so we never fall in love with a dead idea.Why our free tools have no email wallhttps://bongobravo.com/journal/no-email-wall/https://bongobravo.com/journal/no-email-wall/Giving something away and then charging for it at the door is not giving it away.Every product we make runs on one Cloudflare accounthttps://bongobravo.com/journal/one-cloudflare-account/https://bongobravo.com/journal/one-cloudflare-account/One monorepo, one shared core for auth and billing, one Worker per product. What that buys us, and where it bites.Propal: why a proposal should be a link, not a PDFhttps://bongobravo.com/journal/propal-link-not-pdf/https://bongobravo.com/journal/propal-link-not-pdf/What agencies actually lose between sending a quote and getting paid.We are building a renovation platform with a Stockholm firm, in publichttps://bongobravo.com/journal/renovation-platform-stockholm/https://bongobravo.com/journal/renovation-platform-stockholm/Quotes with ROT, a portal the homeowner actually opens, and time on site. Here is the scope we agreed, what we cut, and why the ads part waits.Writing software for a country you do not live inhttps://bongobravo.com/journal/software-for-another-country/https://bongobravo.com/journal/software-for-another-country/ROT rules, staff ledgers, and everything we got wrong about Sweden in the first week.