#business
Running the company.
2026
Six months in, by the numbers
By the numbersMediant Partners Ltd was incorporated on 11 May 2026. Six months on: 195 repos, 5,795 animal logs in ZooLog, 4,710 commits in the five repos we work in most, and a November repo count that needs an asterisk.
The entitlement arrived. The feature still is not live.
Field notesOn 6 November Apple granted the Tap to Pay entitlement we had asked for since September. Workers still cannot use it, because the build sitting in Apple's separate App Store review would lose its place in the queue if we swapped it now.
The ten pound rule
Decision recordIn October our GitHub Actions use ran to nearly five times the minutes our plan includes, and a spending cap we kept raising turned two dozen alerts red. On 5 November we set one rule for every metered vendor: free tier or £10 a month.
The customer pays the fee, so the worker gets every penny
Decision recordOn a £5 tip the customer pays £5.60 and the worker gets exactly £5.00. Taking a cut out of the tip instead loses money on small tips and breaks the one promise TipBop makes. Here is the arithmetic.
Tappy was taken, so we became TipBop
Decision recordWe built our tipping app as Tappy on 21 August 2026. Fifty-eight hours later it was TipBop, because the old name belonged to somebody else. How we screened more than 60 names, and why the code still says tappy.