Build showcases & studies
Explore the tools behind real products, with sourced architecture, practical lessons and smaller workflows to try.
How real products are built
Public-source studies of recent launches and established favourites. Each includes sources and a check date.
Inside Tidy: keep the design editable and the handover understandable
A fresh open-source canvas launch offers a practical lesson about separating design records, collaboration and the files a recipient actually needs.
Inside Plane: give work a structure before adding agents
A recent agent launch opens a useful question: what information must a work system preserve before assistance can act on it?
Inside Reactive Resume v6: a finished page and an editable way out
A recent release connects structured content, a real PDF preview and portable exports. Here is what its current public architecture confirms.
Inside OpenScreen 2: keep the recording editable before adding AI
A recent screen-recording launch shows how a reusable capture and an editable project can matter more than an extra subscription.
Inside OpenCode 2.0: separate the interface, the model and the decision to act
A fresh Product Hunt launch with a documented client/server boundary, public interface code and useful lessons about planning before execution.
Inside Excalidraw: a useful canvas with an exit route
What the public editor and integration docs confirm, and why an editable export matters before adding paid workflow layers.
Inside Lovable: the backend behind the generated app
What Supabase’s customer story confirms, and what a small maker can learn from it.
Inside Cap: a desktop recorder with a web sharing layer
A public-source breakdown of the recording app, web dashboard and storage choices.
Inside Midday: connecting the jobs around freelance work
A documented stack spanning the interface, backend, background tasks and email.
Inside Documenso: why the workflow needs more than a signature box
The current public stack, plus lessons about keeping document states understandable.
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