RG Digital — BlogThoughts on software development, building internal tools, and working with founders.https://rg-digital.dev/en-gbWhich AI features are actually worth building into your softwarehttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/ai-features-worth-building/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/ai-features-worth-building/LLM APIs make it easy to bolt 'AI' onto anything. Most of those additions don't survive contact with a real user. Here's the filter I use before recommending one at all.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat it actually looks like to hire a Dutch freelance developer from abroadhttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/hiring-dutch-freelance-developer/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/hiring-dutch-freelance-developer/KvK, BTW, sole trader, eenmanszaak — the Dutch freelance system has its own vocabulary. Here's what that actually means for a business hiring from outside the Netherlands.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat a reliable integration actually requireshttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/reliable-integrations/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/reliable-integrations/Connecting two systems sounds like the easy part. The webhook that arrives twice, the API that goes down mid-sync, and the retry that quietly doubles a record — that's the real work.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat I ask before writing a single line of your MVPhttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/scoping-an-mvp/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/scoping-an-mvp/Most MVPs don't fail because the code was bad. They fail because nobody was precise about what 'minimum' and 'viable' actually meant before the building started.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy this site has an llms.txt filehttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/why-this-site-has-llms-txt/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/why-this-site-has-llms-txt/AI assistants are becoming a real way people find software developers. This site publishes a machine-readable summary of itself so they can read it properly instead of guessing.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTI build with Claude. Here's what that actually looks like.https://rg-digital.dev/blog/building-with-claude/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/building-with-claude/Ghostbase, my personal dashboard, was built together with Claude — not typed for me, but genuinely built with. Here's what that collaboration looks like day to day, and why I'm not shy about saying so.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy I built Ghostbasehttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/why-i-built-ghostbase/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/why-i-built-ghostbase/I didn't need another link-in-bio page. I needed one place that actually knows what I'm listening to, watching, and shipping — so I built it myself.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTOff-the-shelf software almost fits — and that's the problemhttps://rg-digital.dev/blog/software-that-almost-fits/https://rg-digital.dev/blog/software-that-almost-fits/The most expensive software in your business isn't the one with the big license fee. It's the one that almost does what you need — and quietly costs you hours every week.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT