Amir Cabili
Writer and editor, TaviGam
I build software, and I write the buying advice I wanted to read.
Why these categories
Two, and I came to both as a buyer rather than as a professional in either. Software is the one I can judge from nearer the inside: building things is what I do, so what a tool costs to live with is a question I know how to ask. The making-and-fixing end of home gadgets is the other — 3D scanning, printing, replacing a part nobody sells any more — and there I am further out than a specialist would be. The guides say which is which, in a sentence at the top of each one, and most of them say the research was all of it.
What the two have in common is that they are decisions I wanted to make myself. So I read what there is, write down what I found and where it came from, and say plainly who a thing is wrong for. That is the whole method. It is also why TaviGam covers two categories rather than twenty: I have no reason to care about the other eighteen, and it would show.
How I work
I write and edit every page here myself. That is a limitation as much as a credential: there is no second desk to catch me, so the checks are built into the publishing system instead of into a masthead. Every guide states in one sentence what its claims rest on, and for most of what is published so far that sentence says plainly that I have not used the product. It is the default, not modesty — and the system refuses to publish a page claiming otherwise unless a record exists behind it.
The rules, and the place each one is enforced, are set out on how we review.
What I won't do
I don't sell coverage, placements, links or rankings. The affiliate commission described in the disclosure is the only money that reaches this site from anything I write about, and it has never decided what gets written.
Guides by Amir
- AI Product Photos for Small E-commerce Brands: A Plain-English Buying GuideIf you sell physical products online, you already know the problem this category exists to solve: product photography is expensive, slow, and never finished.
- 3D Scanners for Makers and Small Studios: A Plain-English Buying GuideIf you make physical things — 3D printing, prop and cosplay work, product design, small-batch manufacturing, or digitizing objects for a shop or an archive — a 3D scanner promises something genuinely useful: turning a real object into a digital model you can measure, modify, reproduce, or publish.
- Fixing Broken Parts with 3D Scanning and Printing: A Plain-English GuideA plastic bracket snaps inside an appliance. A knob cracks. A discontinued clip gives out, and the manufacturer either doesn't sell the part or wants more for shipping than the machine is worth. This is the everyday problem the scan-to-print workflow exists to solve: turn the broken physical part into a digital model, and print a replacement.
Get in touch
Corrections first, everything else second: hello@tavigam.com, or the contact page. If something here is wrong, I would rather hear it from you than leave it standing.