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What building a property management system really costs in 2026
We recently scoped a real one: a rental website plus an internal admin tool, priced three ways. Here are the hours, the dollars, and the single decision that moved the number most.
Shopify's Summer '26 Edition has 150+ updates. Here are the five worth your time.
Shopify shipped over 150 changes in the Summer '26 Edition. Most of them won't matter to your store. Five will: Horizon themes, checkout extensibility, AI merchandising, native A/B testing, and B2B payment terms. Here's how to read the list as a merchant, not a fan.
Gifting is a $33B market. The software you can buy mostly wasn't built for it.
Personalized gifting is one of the fastest-growing corners of commerce, but the buyer is never the person who receives the thing. That single fact breaks most off-the-shelf tooling. Here's how to decide whether to buy a gifting platform or build one.
What custom software actually costs in 2026 (and why the quotes got weirder)
Every founder asks the same first question, and every honest answer sounds like a dodge. Here are the real 2026 ranges, the five decisions that move them, and why AI made estimates lower but also stranger.
88% of AI agent pilots never ship. We've watched this movie before, without the agents.
Gartner expects 40% of agentic AI projects to be scrapped by 2027, and a third of employees admit to quietly sabotaging their company's AI strategy. After a decade of selling digital transformation, here's the thing consultants usually only say to each other at the bar.
Remote patient monitoring finally pays. Here's what's worth building now.
Medicare's 2026 fee schedule pays for monitoring from two days of readings, hospital-at-home is locked in through 2030, and the outcome data holds up. The pilot era of remote patient monitoring is over. The operations era is starting.
35% of teams have replaced a SaaS tool with custom software. Should you?
Retool surveyed 817 builders and found a third have already swapped at least one subscription for something they built themselves, and most of that building happens behind IT's back. The numbers are real. So are the failure modes.
In Korea, people are 'ordering' food that never arrives. There's a product lesson in that.
South Korea's 'dopamine sites' let people browse menus, fill a cart, and watch a courier on the map with no order ever placed. It's a strange mirror for anyone who builds shopping or booking products.
Shopify Scripts stop running on June 30. If you haven't moved to Functions, checkout breaks.
On June 30, 2026 every Shopify Script stops executing. Plus stores running custom discount, shipping, or payment logic in Scripts will see it silently fail unless it's been rebuilt as a Function first. Here's what breaks and how to scope the move.
Telegram Mini Apps are quietly becoming an app store. Should you launch there first?
A billion people are on Telegram, half of them have used a mini app, and shipping one costs a fraction of a native build. The economics are real — and so are the reasons they don't apply to everyone.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act hits IoT this September. Most product teams aren't ready.
From September 11, 2026, anyone selling connected products in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours — including for devices shipped years ago. The full compliance wave lands in 2027, but the machinery has to exist this year.
Building healthtech in 2026: HIPAA, FHIR, and the ransomware math you can't skip
A scheduling app and a patient-scheduling app look identical in a demo. The difference is everything underneath. The rewritten HIPAA rules, the FHIR deadlines, and a ransomware problem regulators have stopped excusing are reshaping what a healthtech build looks like in 2026.
"Pick a time slot" is dying. What AI booking agents mean for your scheduling product.
AI agents are starting to book appointments for people, sometimes without ever opening your booking page. Here's what that does to the products built around scheduling, and what's worth building now.
Your store can now sell inside ChatGPT. Here's what Shopify's Agentic Storefronts actually change.
Shopify's Winter '26 Edition lets merchants sell directly inside ChatGPT, Copilot, Google's AI Mode, and Gemini. The buyer never lands on your site, which changes what you actually need to get right.
Apple is rejecting vibe-coded apps. The signal is bigger than the App Store.
Apple has started pulling apps built with vibe-coding tools from the App Store, citing the same quality and functionality rules it has used for years. The trend matters more than any individual rejection.
The sunset of cheap vibe coding
Token economics, agent loop tax, and the Month 3 Problem: why the cheap-vibe-coding era is over and what comes next for AI-assisted development.
SEO for AI agents: why answer-engine optimization is the new SEO
Search is being rewritten by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. Here's what actually moves the needle when the thing ranking your content is an LLM, not a search index.