David Heinemeier Hansson needed to ship one product fast. The constraint of his deadline became the infrastructure of the web.

DHH built Rails for himself — to solve his own constraint, on his own deadline. He shared it because sharing cost nothing. Rails went on to power GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Twitter in its early years, and thousands of other applications. The framework that built the internet was a byproduct of one person solving one problem. This episode is about the private tool you've already built — and why sharing it is your next product drop.

— THE BUILD —

What tool, system, or methodology have you built for your own work — to solve your own constraint — that you haven't shared publicly? It doesn't have to be software. It can be a spreadsheet, a framework, a checklist, a process, a template. Write it down. Then ask: i ...