Real work / 2022–2023
jusTHINK
The gap between a working product and one ready for real use.
jusTHINK was a social platform we built for people to share ideas across different topics. As Co-Founder and CTO, I led its product and technology work. This note documents one concrete engineering lesson from the project.
The product
The public v1 repository documents SCSS, Parcel and JavaScript on the client, with Django and Go on the server. It gives a public view into an early stage of the work.
The limit I missed
In an early version, I had left out a basic rate limit. Repeated requests from a friend drove up server load. I later shared that mistake publicly on X.
The lesson I carried forward
A working demo does not show whether a system is resilient in real use. I now consider abuse cases, failure boundaries and monitoring when assessing a flow. This is a lesson from the work, not a claim about a measured performance result or completed remediation.