MAY 2026 · FIELD NOTES
Field notes from building Carom
An ongoing log of the design and engineering decisions behind Carom.
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Just vibecode it
Like anyone in the software world—hell, the world—we’re big fans of coding with large language models. It’s amazing! Give Claude Code a few sentences and plenty of tokens, keep your laptop open, take a walk, and come back to a production-ready application made bespoke for you.
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Designing a closer look at your day
We like to sweat the details of every screen in Carom, especially the ones that communicate the most critical information. That means we ask a lot of questions, reject a lot of ideas, and refine a lot of concepts. Here are some of the decisions that led to the feature you'll see in Carom today.