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What counts as finished.

What has to be true before we call something a product. Anything that hasn’t cleared the gate yet says so, plainly, on its own page.

What reaches release

It gets called a product when it holds up under real use. Not before.

You can tell what it does in the first minute.It knows how to fail and come back before anyone else touches it.Platform behavior is measured, never assumed.What we call it, and what we say it does, stays the same on every page.
What stays in research

Work in progress, labeled as work in progress.

The direction is set; the hard edge cases are the work.Labels describe the build that exists, not the one we want.You can raise your hand without us promising a date.We attach the numbers, with the date and the source.
What goes public

Download available. That is what public means.

Each one solves one specific problem.Its page says what it needs and where it stops.Small enough to maintain forever.Useful for years, not a toy for a week.
What gets rejected

It works and it still does not ship. Working is the floor.

Interfaces that decorate instead of telling you what's happening.Anything that needs a paragraph to explain what it does.Features that cost more attention than they save.Anything that can break without a written way back.
What never ships

These categories never reach release. Not by schedule — by policy.

Dark patterns, manufactured urgency, or synthetic scarcity.Tracking-heavy interfaces that treat users as inventory.Marketing layers with no operational system beneath them.Design decisions that trade clarity for novelty.