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The platform worked in the demo and was signing institutions. Underneath, authorization was broken, organizations could see each other's data, uploads failed, there was no deploy process, keys were hardcoded and there were no tests. Here is what we found and six checks for yours. Read more
Xperiencify's AWS bill went from $10,000 to $2,000 a month in 14 days. Nothing was migrated and nothing was rewritten. We removed what nobody used and made the database do less work. Here is the method and the checklist we use. Read more
A demo proves the model can do the job once, for you, on data you picked. Production asks whether it does the job for every customer, using only their data, at a cost you can carry. Here are the six gaps we check before an AI feature leaves beta. Read more
SportsID gives an athlete one permanent record that travels from camp to college. CoachID hires coaches off the same idea. Two products, one identity underneath, and that underneath part is where the engineering actually lives. Read more
WooCommerce got Idlecorp's store live in a weekend. It couldn't get them past a plugin-stacked checkout and recommendations that didn't actually personalize anything. Here's why we moved the whole platform to Saleor. Read more
Midway through building Sales Leverage, the founder's personal situation made it impossible to keep funding the build on schedule. We shipped it anyway. He paid in full once he could. Read more
Most engagement contracts assign IP to the client. Most agencies still gatekeep the code on the way out. Here are the seven things to demand before you sign off the final invoice, and the order to demand them in. Read more
A company gave every engineer unlimited Claude Code and put up a leaderboard for who burned the most tokens. The post is at 1,000 upvotes. The top comments are about gaming the leaderboard. The leaderboard is the product. Read more
Most agency quotes are still pretending it's 2023. Here's what an MVP actually costs in 2026: five tiers, what each one ships, where the price comes from, and the work we won't take at the bottom of the range. Read more
Three weeks, one engineer, both stores. The exact day-by-day timeline of a mobile MVP we shipped this spring, what we cut to make the window, and what we'd do differently next time. Read more
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