Ingredients
Design Engineering: Figma, Interaction Design, UX flows, Design Systems, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Visual hierarchy. Frontend Engineering: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vercel, Node.js, Tailwind, React-Query, Tanstack Query, SSR/CSR, WebSockets, Million.js optimization, Firebase, Expo, GraphQL, React-Native. Realtime & Performance: Latency-aware UI, real-time dashboards, WebSockets, data streaming, performance tuning, rendering optimizations, sub-second updates. Creative Technology: Animation functions, micro-interactions, experimental UI prototypes, multi-agent & LLM workflow design. Systems Literacy: API integration, data modeling intuition, pricing & liquidity visualization, margin mechanics modeling, automated QA pipelines (Cypress, Jest), CI/CD. Product Craft: End-to-end feature ownership, acceptance criteria for "ready to build," founder collaboration, rapid iteration loops, problem→flow→prototype cycles. Founding/Entrepreneurship Energy: Zero→one product execution, multi-product component systems, cross-domain branding, shipping under ambiguity, supporting 20+ early-stage teams.