The Fastest Data Grid for your App? | Ep. 34

Users don't blame your table when it stutters. They blame their WiFi, refresh the page, and wonder if their laptop is dying. Then they open a product where the rows glide, and yours suddenly feels broken.ㅤDaniel Kazani sits down with Khalil Baydoun, co-founder of 1771 Technologies and the team behind LyteNyte Grid, to get into why speed is a product decision, not a nice-to-have. Khalil breaks down the buy-versus-build math for data grids, why the pull to adopt a tool has to come from developers rather than the CEO, and how a small London team runs like a 30-person company by putting AI everywhere except the hardest engineering.ㅤThey also get into the pressure founders and CTOs now pile onto dev teams: be McDonald's, but make the food gourmet. And why Khalil sits on the dreamer side of the AI debate. For a founder-to-founder view from Daniel and Softup on where developer productivity actually comes from, this one delivers.ㅤ👤 Guest BioKhalil Baydoun is the co-founder of 1771 Technologies, the London software company behind LyteNyte Grid, a data grid and data table library that developers embed into their applications. His team has built data grids for almost three years, focusing on performance and developer experience over sales and marketing.ㅤ📌 What We CoverThe buy-versus-build decision for data grids, and why building one can cost engineers months or a full year of time.Why the customer is the company but the user is the developer, and what that means for how adoption actually happens.Latency as the silent killer of user experience, explained through slow conference calls and laggy FIFA matches.The McDonald's-but-gourmet expectation now landing on every dev team, and how Lovable changes what a product manager expects from developers.Doomers versus dreamers on AI, and why Khalil bets on workflows that haven't been invented yet.How a small team uses AI for documentation, copywriting, invoicing, testing, and code reviews, but still can't get a data grid past 80% from scratch.The "Dyson of data grids" pitch: pick it up, plug it in, get going.ㅤ🔗 Resources MentionedLyteNyte Grid / 1771 TechnologiesClaude CodeLovableCursorMicrosoft CopilotPalantirChatGPT