Why Shinsa exists
Good ideas rarely fail because of the idea.
Ever since I started working as an application developer, I keep hearing the same sentence: “I had an AI build me something – and now I am stuck.”
Tools that program on request are remarkably good at delivering something that works at first glance. They are just as good at inventing things: functions that do not exist, libraries that never existed, security checks that only look like they check something. Anyone who can program notices. Anyone who cannot notices when it is too late – when customer data is sitting open on the internet, when the hosting bill arrives, or when one small change brings the whole building down.
I do not know this from hearsay. Before I became a developer I was on the other side myself: an idea in my head, no craft behind it, so I let the machine build it. For a while it went remarkably well. Then I was looking at code I did not understand, with errors I could not find, and nobody to ask. Giving up was the easiest way out. That is exactly what I want to spare other people.
The annoying part: these projects often rest on genuinely good ideas. People who saw a real problem and did something about it instead of waiting for someone else. They do not fail because of the idea, they fail because of the foundation.
That is what Shinsa is for. A place to go for everyone with an idea who does not know whether it holds up – and for everyone whose project is against the wall. We say what the situation is, even when the answer is uncomfortable. And what we build is built so that you can still touch it in two years without holding your breath.
Alexander Barwig · Application developer, owner of ABC Systematik