product, design, and engineering lessons from building Sail & Muddy Published March 2026 In 2022 I was looking for a very specific thing: a small team, less than ten people, before product market fit, working on something I actually cared about. I started coding early on and have always loved building and computers. I was interested in startups and in the future of personal computing. Two friends from college, Ron and Jimmy, reached out. They'd been working on this idea of a new browser, forked Chromium, figured out how to build on top of it, and raised a 5.5 million dollar seed from General Catalyst, Naval, Lachy Groom, YC, and others. By the time I joined as a founding engineer one of the hard parts was done. You could build on top of Chromium, access tabs, the history API, and all the UI could be built with web technologies. But the other hard part was still ahead of us: what to build, how it should work, and whether anyone wanted it.…