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Notes on growing your store.

Practical thinking on websites, apps and e-commerce — written by the team that ships them. Guides, teardowns, and field notes from building storefronts, portals, and product dashboards for growing businesses.

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Cloud POS Software for Small Business: Features, Total Cost and a Buying Guide
Choose cloud POS software for a small Indian business by testing billing, UPI, GST, inventory, multi-outlet control and security, and building an honest total-cost comparison.
25 September 2026MainakCustom Software & SaaS
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How to Build a RAG Chatbot: Production Architecture and Checklist
Build a RAG chatbot with a production architecture: ingestion, retrieval, grounded generation, citations, evaluation, security and rollout.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Approach Should You Choose?
RAG supplies changing knowledge at query time; fine-tuning changes model behaviour from examples. Compare cost, control, updates and deployment trade-offs.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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AI Agent Evaluation and Observability: A Production Guide
Evaluate the task, trace every tool path and monitor production drift with an AI agent evaluation and observability system built for real workflows.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: Controls, Exceptions and Trust
Human-in-the-loop AI agents need explicit approval gates, resumable state, scoped permissions and an exception queue—not a vague promise of human oversight.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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Knowledge Base Chatbots: How They Work and When to Use Them
Learn how a knowledge base chatbot retrieves approved content, answers questions, cites sources and hands off when the evidence is missing.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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AI Customer Support for Ecommerce: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to AI customer support for ecommerce: use cases, order and policy tools, India language context, handoffs, privacy and evaluation.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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AI Workflow Automation: Where It Helps and How to Start
Learn where AI workflow automation fits in ecommerce and operations, how to choose a bounded first workflow, and which controls to add before production.
25 September 2026MainakAI & Automation
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How to Build a CI/CD Testing Pipeline
Build a CI/CD testing pipeline that runs unit, integration, end-to-end and Shopify release checks before a deployment reaches production.
25 September 2026MainakData, QA & Reliability
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Ecommerce Testing Checklist for Shopify Stores
A practical ecommerce testing checklist for Shopify stores covering catalogue, cart, checkout, payments, performance, accessibility and post-purchase workflows.
25 September 2026MainakData, QA & Reliability

Notes on growing your store.

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Cloud POS Software for Small Business: Features, Total Cost and a Buying Guide→

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RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Approach Should You Choose?→

AI Agent Evaluation and Observability: A Production Guide→

Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: Controls, Exceptions and Trust→

Knowledge Base Chatbots: How They Work and When to Use Them→

AI Customer Support for Ecommerce: A Practical Guide→

AI Workflow Automation: Where It Helps and How to Start→

How to Build a CI/CD Testing Pipeline→

Ecommerce Testing Checklist for Shopify Stores→

Cloud POS Software for Small Business: Features, Total Cost and a Buying Guide→

How to Build a RAG Chatbot: Production Architecture and Checklist→

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Approach Should You Choose?→

AI Agent Evaluation and Observability: A Production Guide→

Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: Controls, Exceptions and Trust→

Knowledge Base Chatbots: How They Work and When to Use Them→

AI Customer Support for Ecommerce: A Practical Guide→

AI Workflow Automation: Where It Helps and How to Start→

How to Build a CI/CD Testing Pipeline→

Ecommerce Testing Checklist for Shopify Stores→

Cloud POS Software for Small Business: Features, Total Cost and a Buying Guide

How to Build a RAG Chatbot: Production Architecture and Checklist

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Approach Should You Choose?

AI Agent Evaluation and Observability: A Production Guide

Human-in-the-Loop AI Agents: Controls, Exceptions and Trust

Knowledge Base Chatbots: How They Work and When to Use Them

AI Customer Support for Ecommerce: A Practical Guide

AI Workflow Automation: Where It Helps and How to Start

How to Build a CI/CD Testing Pipeline

Ecommerce Testing Checklist for Shopify Stores