Ship Happens
Notes from the build trenches at &Pixels. This is where our team writes about the work, not about the agency. Honest takes on UX, engineering, AI, and what it really takes to move a product from idea to live in production.
No thought-leadership filler, no recycled trend round-ups. Every post is something we learned, shipped, or argued about internally first. If a post would not pass the test of being useful to a smart founder, designer, or engineer, we do not publish it.
Introducing &Pixels Labs: We're Building Products Now
&Pixels Labs is the product arm of &Pixels, a veteran-owned design and development agency in Austin, TX. First product: Revlr, an AI-powered website audit platform. Free beta at revlr.ai.
We Fired 18 Plugins (and Nobody Got Hurt)
We migrated our own agency site off WordPress, cut 18 plugins, and built a lean stack with Next.js and Supabase. Here's why we did it and what we gained.
We Built a Business to Clean Up AI-Generated Code. Here's Why.
How &Pixels went from building digital products to launching Unvibed, and why we believe the future belongs to teams that know when to vibe and when to stop.
What we write about
Ship Happens is organized around four threads. Each one comes out of a real client engagement or an internal product build at &Pixels Labs, so the lessons are road-tested before they hit the page.
Design and UX
Research notes, design system decisions, accessibility wins, and the small UX details that decide whether a product actually gets used.
Engineering and Build
How we wire up Next.js, Stripe, Supabase, and the rest of the modern web stack without painting ourselves into a corner.
AI, AEO, and GEO
What it takes to rank in AI-generated answers, what AEO and GEO actually require, and where AI-assisted development helps versus where it makes things worse.
Process and the Business of Shipping
Scopes, retainers, project management, hiring senior talent, running a veteran-owned agency, and the messy reality of moving software from "in progress" to "in production."
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