A Working Beta in 72 Hours — A Record of How Tessvia Was Born
The short version This article is a record of the first three days, during which the name of a product called Tessvia was born. What kind of service Tessvia is, I explain in the series' entry-point article, "What Tessvia Is" . Here, I write about how the first version of that Tessvia came to be — the three days in which, after handing over the spec all at once, we arrived at a working beta and a…
On June 10, 2026, the specification for the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of Tessvia was handed over to Claude Code, an AI coding environment, all at once. This included a 11-package monorepo built on Turborepo, a Chrome extension, and a command-line interface (CLI). All 15 CLI smoke tests passed on that very first day. By the second day, June 11, a method for End-to-End (E2E) testing of the Chrome extension was established.
On the third day, the domain name "Tessvia" was settled upon, resulting in a working beta product and a product name in just 72 hours.
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