Behind Zippr: Building for an industry running on spreadsheets
Every decorated apparel shop we talked to was running the same setup: one tool for quoting, another for the CRM, a spreadsheet for production, and a phone call or email to place every vendor order. Four or five systems, none of them talking to each other.
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The invoice nobody budgeted for
Every operator I've talked to who shipped an AI feature has some version of this story. The demo worked. The team was proud. Then the invoice arrived, and it didn't look like the one from last month.
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A prompt gets you to a demo.
A prompt will get you a login screen, a dashboard, and a cool-looking flow before lunch. It won't tell you what happens when two people hit that flow at the same second, what your database does under real load, or who else can read the table where you're storing passwords.
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Why We Started Algebra
I spent years watching good operators run their businesses on duct tape and spreadsheets. In fact, for much of my career, I've been that operator. Not because I didn't know better, but because nobody had built anything better.
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