Patch started as a weekend sketch: a tool for planning a garden bed by season, not by shopping list. Three weeks later it was on the App Store.
How we kept scope honest
We cut everything that wasn't a seed-to-harvest loop. No accounts, no social, no cloud sync on day one.
One screen per job
Ship the smallest plant database that feels complete
Defer anything that needed a backend
The review queue was the only deadline we didn't control, and Apple turned it around in 96 hours.