Writing
Writing — James Portman
Build notes. Mostly the same question from different angles: what is actually inside the software we rent, what does it take to make your own, and when is that a bad idea.
Build note · July 2026
Don’t subscribe to it. Build it.
A commercial geography game taken apart into its parts — most of them free — plus the bit that is genuinely hard, what the rebuild costs to run, and the three cases where copying a subscription product is the wrong call.
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