Zero to platform in three weeks

On February 15th, islet was a name and some planning documents. By March 7th, it was a daemon running on a Raspberry Pi, a Flask API accepting data from two phones, a glucose prediction engine, an iOS companion app with eleven screens, an Android follower app, a food template system, and a test suite with over 600 tests. This is not a story about moving fast. It is a story about what happens when you have already done the thinking. ...

March 13, 2026 · 5 min · Christopher Griffiths