Isaiah Kim

Founder of Compound Labs, an independent product R&D lab. Notes on building, shipping, and what the work reveals.

New York, NY Joined on Jun 12, 2026 kyisaiah47@gmail.com https://thecompound.tech

Isaiah Kim

Sep 19

Four filings that leave a record

#help #javascript #career #productivity

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Isaiah Kim

Sep 18

BlockDex searches public shadcn registries at the item level

#api #react #opensource #github

3 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 17

BenchFile checks a building, clears an open Local Law 84 violation, and files each year

#data #saas #productivity #security

3 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 15

Four directories with different jobs

#developer #ai #career #react

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 15

Four wires carrying source stories into readable pages

#news #developer #javascript #career

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 13

KitGrade, RuleStack and SkillWorks

#saas #developer #javascript #career

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 13

BenchFile, HeldBack and GoodStanding

#product #productivity #career #javascript

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 12

OutRip, ToolDrift and StillShipping

#career #ai #tools #coding

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 12

CivicBinder, CivicBinder Health and TrustDesk

#security #product #career #community

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 11

Open to work: Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Product Engineer

#career #ai #webdev #fullstack

1 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 7

Soft Money Journal, Still Mornings, Using It Up and Why Your Brain Does That

#discuss #webdev #ai #programming

3 min read

Isaiah Kim

Sep 6

Claude Code subagents fail 2.8x more often than skills

#ai #claude #agents #opensource

3 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 24

DoseTrace: a $99 DSCSA binder for small pharmacies

#webdev #node #healthcare #buildinpublic

5 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 17

I turned on error tracking. Most of it was Outlook.

#webdev #javascript #debugging #analytics

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 14

I shipped a download that iOS turned into a navigation

#webdev #javascript #ios #react

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 11

I built a Playwright gate that cried wolf 889 times

#webdev #playwright #testing #css

5 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 9

The early return that shipped a false all-clear

#webdev #typescript #nextjs #buildinpublic

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 7

I paged a table with no ORDER BY and lost 2,797 rows

#postgres #sql #node #webdev

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 5

I rewrote 1.2M Postgres rows a run to change nothing

#postgres #supabase #python #buildinpublic

5 min read

Isaiah Kim

Aug 2

unstable_cache stored my outage for a full hour

#nextjs #caching #webdev #debugging

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 31

Custom element FOUC: the rule that hid nothing

#webdev #webcomponents #css #javascript

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 27

Ranking a dashboard by funnel depth, not counts

#analytics #product #webdev #buildinpublic

4 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 25

Seek-safe animation: one paused timeline, scrubbed

#javascript #animation #webdev #gsap

5 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 23

Why a CSS diff reads right and renders wrong

#webdev #css #playwright #frontend

6 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 21

Recording product demos with Playwright and no human

#playwright #automation #testing #webdev

6 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 16

Getting paid is a state-machine problem

#webdev #typescript #startup #buildinpublic

5 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 10

What 1,000 invoices a month actually costs across five document-AI APIs

#api #ocr #documentai #saas

2 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 10

I benchmarked my document-extraction API against Textract and Google DocAI — on public datasets, in public CI

#ai #ocr #benchmarking #opensource

3 min read

Isaiah Kim

Jul 9

How one person runs a whole studio of production apps

#webdev #architecture #ai #saas

5 min read

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Four filings that leave a record

Want to connect with Isaiah Kim?

BlockDex searches public shadcn registries at the item level

BenchFile checks a building, clears an open Local Law 84 violation, and files each year

Four directories with different jobs

Four wires carrying source stories into readable pages

KitGrade, RuleStack and SkillWorks

BenchFile, HeldBack and GoodStanding

OutRip, ToolDrift and StillShipping

CivicBinder, CivicBinder Health and TrustDesk

Open to work: Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Product Engineer

Soft Money Journal, Still Mornings, Using It Up and Why Your Brain Does That

Claude Code subagents fail 2.8x more often than skills

DoseTrace: a $99 DSCSA binder for small pharmacies

I turned on error tracking. Most of it was Outlook.

I shipped a download that iOS turned into a navigation

I built a Playwright gate that cried wolf 889 times

The early return that shipped a false all-clear

I paged a table with no ORDER BY and lost 2,797 rows

I rewrote 1.2M Postgres rows a run to change nothing

unstable_cache stored my outage for a full hour

Custom element FOUC: the rule that hid nothing

Ranking a dashboard by funnel depth, not counts

Seek-safe animation: one paused timeline, scrubbed

Why a CSS diff reads right and renders wrong

Recording product demos with Playwright and no human

Getting paid is a state-machine problem

What 1,000 invoices a month actually costs across five document-AI APIs

I benchmarked my document-extraction API against Textract and Google DocAI — on public datasets, in public CI

How one person runs a whole studio of production apps