https://www.pointegrity.com/journal Decisions, reasoning, and work-in-progress notes from the team building Pouch at Pointegrity. en-us hello@pointegrity.com (Pointegrity) hello@pointegrity.com (Pointegrity) Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-06-09-the-bench-we-kept-rebuilding/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-06-09-the-bench-we-kept-rebuilding/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Several of our recent chat-and-canvas apps kept showing up with the same bones — different domain, same scaffold. liugent (liu as in 流, flow) is the scaffold factored out: a small Go bench plus a plugin slot where the domain lives. First plugin is internal, used live during TWSE hours. Notes from the workshop, not a product announcement. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-25-the-games-we-kept-in-a-drawer/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-25-the-games-we-kept-in-a-drawer/ Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A short break from the serious mini-apps. We dug two small math games out of the drawer and rebuilt them clean — Domino Solver, a partition puzzle, and Cat and Mouse, the 19th-century pursuit game Conway analysed in Winning Ways. Both a small collaboration with the Chiu Chang Mathematics Education Foundation, and a reminder of what a break is for. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-22-the-attic-and-the-noise-we-found-in-it/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-22-the-attic-and-the-noise-we-found-in-it/ Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A new piece of the family: attic, the backup layer behind pouch, mytraces, and the rest. A polite email from the cloud provider about high outbound traffic turned into a small forensic dig — a few hundred megabytes of actual data was producing several hundred gigabytes of cross-region traffic a week. The mismatch was in how we'd set up the safety net, not in any of the apps. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-17-the-state-that-hid-behind-the-map/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-17-the-state-that-hid-behind-the-map/ Sun, 17 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Notes from rebuilding the bottom sheet in mytraces, a trip-companion app shipping soon. A back-button gesture that opened a Discover modal turned out to be a follow-up tap landing on an invisible chip — and the chase exposed a deeper pattern in how state was scattered across modules. Three architectural slices later, a lesson about where view-coordinated state should live. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-13-the-bag-with-pockets/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-13-the-bag-with-pockets/ Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A few days reshaping the pouch home view on the phone. Stream-bound drops collapse into pockets, pinned items sit at the top without a label, search moved to a corner icon. Plus a small affordance — a gear on each stream card — that pays the biggest dividend. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-08-what-the-codebase-remembers/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-08-what-the-codebase-remembers/ Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A passing note about poi, the typed knowledge index our codebase has been quietly accumulating about itself. Gotchas with file-glob triggers, decisions you stop re-litigating, boundaries that are real gates. Internal dogfood for now — notes from the workshop, not a product announcement. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-06-the-ontology-pattern-three-domains/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-06-the-ontology-pattern-three-domains/ Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The same architecture we use in mytraces (travel) shipped first as SC PreAlgebra (math), and now in a third domain — SC Programming. Why this shape keeps showing up in our work, and what it deliberately doesn't try to be. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-03-the-ontology-and-the-model/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-03-the-ontology-and-the-model/ Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A status report from inside mytraces, our internal trip-planning project. Why we're building it around two pillars — a curated ontology and an LLM — and how that decision is shaping the work. Internal dogfood for now, design notes worth writing down. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-02-what-we-built-while-the-journal-was-quiet/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-05-02-what-we-built-while-the-journal-was-quiet/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ten days off the journal. A status report from the workshop floor: a visual-identity system shared across our app family, schema housekeeping in the auth library, real test coverage for previously-untested layers, and the honest answer to the marketing question. Plus a real subscribe form below. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-24-paid-from-day-one/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-24-paid-from-day-one/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The indie-SaaS default is free-tier-then-upsell. Pouch chose the opposite. Here's the reasoning on alignment, signal quality, and infrastructure math — plus why the trial is 14 days specifically, and the one case where this framing might fail. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-23-plex-for-app-and-content/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-23-plex-for-app-and-content/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 System fonts were the safe default. Inter was the obvious indie-SaaS pick. We went with Plex — and this post is set in it. Why one coordinated family beats a stapled-together pair. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-22-streams-not-folders/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-22-streams-not-folders/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Folders are the obvious default. Here's why pouch said no, and what a "stream" does that a folder doesn't. The decision that keeps pouch from drifting into note-app shape. https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-21-what-pouch-is-and-isnt/ https://www.pointegrity.com/journal/2026-04-21-what-pouch-is-and-isnt/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pouch kept getting pulled toward "note app" or "dropbox" framings. Both were wrong. Here's what we chose instead — a "personal data relay" — and the product decisions that cascaded from it.