Write the requirements that matter
Describe customer workflows, expected usage, integration needs and data sensitivity. Identify genuine constraints such as offline access or customer hosting requirements. Separate current needs from speculative future scale. Requirements make trade-offs easier to discuss across business and technical teams.
Evaluate delivery and maintenance together
Consider developer availability, deployment, testing, documentation and ongoing support. A tool can reduce initial build time while increasing later operational work. Review the health and support arrangements of important dependencies. Assign responsibility for updates rather than assuming the platform removes that obligation.
Understand costs and exit options
Estimate costs at several plausible usage levels, including storage, external APIs, monitoring and support. Identify what data you can export and what would be difficult to move. Vendor dependence may be acceptable, but it should be a conscious decision with a practical recovery plan.
Record the important decisions
Write a short explanation of the options considered and why the choice fits today. Include conditions that would trigger a review. Keep accounts, repositories and deployment access under appropriate company control. Avoid a situation where only one individual can operate or recover the product.
Your next steps
- Document current product requirements.
- Compare build and operating effort.
- Estimate costs at different usage levels.
- Check export and recovery options.
- Assign maintenance and account ownership.