SERIES

Bateson — General-Purpose Booking Engine

Design, implementation, and operations log of bateson, a general-purpose booking engine. Following the design process of keeping Calendar / Email / Storage / Scheduler swappable via Adapter pattern and pushing toward multi-tenancy through tenant abstraction.

2 episodes

Business

Vol. 01 Business

From Contract Work to Commercial License — bateson's Management Decisions and Phase Strategy

Management decision-making for promoting a contract-built codebase to a proprietary product. Using bateson Booking Engine as a case, this article covers Phase A→D staged investment, sales funnel design, and the mid-term strategy of running contract work alongside product development.

2026-05-21

Engineering

Vol. 01 Engineering

Designing a Booking Engine from Scratch — From Contract Work to Commercial License

Full disclosure of the 4 abstraction rules that promote a contract-built codebase to a commercial license. Phase A→D stage design, adapter pattern, and tenantId allow SaaS prep to advance without breaking changes, while dogfooding continues.

2026-05-21

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