Field notes · Product, engineering and proof
Useful thinking from the hard parts.
Compact frameworks for teams making consequential product decisions—grounded in the separation between a convincing demo and evidence that survives release.
New guides will continue to cover native product QA, local intelligence, consumer AI trust and launch systems.- iOS
- release and device evidence
- AI
- trust, evaluation and control
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00 / Free tool
App Store readiness checker.
A private browser-only audit for teams deciding whether an iOS release has real source, device, privacy, commerce, TestFlight, store and operational evidence. The complete result appears without an upload, login or email gate.
- 13–20 conditional evidence checks
- No project upload or persistent answer storage
- Required-gate blocker ordering
- Copy and print only by explicit choice
01 / iOS launch
The honest iOS app launch checklist.
A build, a simulator run, a physical device, StoreKit, App Store Connect and real-user validation answer different questions. The guide turns those layers into a practical release checklist.
- Source and deterministic tests
- Simulator and physical device
- Commerce and distribution
- Store and operational readiness
02 / Trustworthy AI
Build the trust boundary before the AI spectacle.
A product framework for defining the user claim, choosing the data boundary, showing uncertainty, preserving human control and evaluating representative reality.
- Observable product claim
- Data and computation boundary
- AI UX and uncertainty
- Evaluation and launch evidence
03 / Follow
Use the feed or bring us the difficult version.
The RSS feed publishes new field notes without an account. For a live product problem, a short brief with the ambition, current state and uncomfortable constraints is enough to begin.
- getyear.app/feed.xml
- hello@getyear.app