Tianxia Wangshang reported in March 2026 on Jingxing of Hangzhou Honglian Intelligence, describing data-engineering experience and exploration of lightweight products and enterprise customization. We do not turn that exploratory stage into an established business model.
Separate shared capability from customer exceptions
Two customers may both need exported reports but use different fields, approvals and permissions. The export mechanism can be common while exceptions stay in individual configurations. Mixing business rules merely to reuse code can make one upgrade disrupt several projects.
Reserve realistic time for the independent product
Schedule approved customer work, support allowance and product experiments separately. A weekly product goal should be testable, such as a complete registration-to-export flow, rather than simply continuing development. Record which experiment is postponed when urgent work arrives.
Let repeated demand guide productization
A capability requested once is not automatically worth selling independently. Establish whether other customers want a similar process before packaging all historical code as product assets. Reporting lacks complete profit and delivery-burden information; this analysis offers decision methods, not a claim that one route necessarily earns more.
Further reading: OPC Founders.