A TREEHOUSE JAR

Small Batch Software

This jar exists because the hard part was never the typing — it's knowing what to ask for, and that part can be taught.

Software built to fit one shop: yours. And a workshop that teaches you to do it without me.

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Building software got cheap. Deciding what to build didn't. That gap is the whole opportunity right now, and it won't stay open — so the main thing on offer here is the skill itself, not my time.

Workshop

$75 a seat

Learn to spec your own thing.

Half a day. You bring a problem from your own work and leave with a written specification for it — precise enough to hand to a developer, or to a model, or to nobody at all. The part we practice is the part the machines can't do: noticing that the problem you can describe isn't the problem you have.

Discovery

$750

Or have it done once, and watch how it's done.

Half a day on site. I watch the work happen and ask about the parts your hands do that your description leaves out. You get a written specification you own outright and can take anywhere — including to someone else.

Build

Quoted separately

If you want the thing built, that is its own conversation.

Deliberately never bundled with discovery. If I sell you the build, I'm quietly motivated to spec what I already know how to build. Keeping them apart is what keeps the spec honest.

Workshops in Bend. Nothing on the calendar yet — I'm still lining up a room. If you want to know when there is one, say so and I'll tell you.

The reasoning behind all of this — including the ways it might be wrong — is written up in the Codex.

Read the essay: Small Batch Software →

Get in touch

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Built by Jaede Rutherford in Bend, Oregon.