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Code-first guides and deep dives on building B2B SaaS products, designing APIs, scaling web apps, and modernizing legacy software.
How to Choose a Tech Stack for Your SaaS in 2026 — A Non-Technical Founder's Guide
Tech stacks discussions are full of buzzwords and vendor hype. Here is exactly what matters when choosing a stack for your SaaS: real tradeoffs that founders can actually use.
Software Agency Portfolio With No Clients Yet
Enterprise clients want proof you've shipped, but you can't get proof without clients. Here's how to break that loop: build a software agency portfolio with no clients yet — a documented micro-SaaS, an open-source package, a pro-bono value audit, and metrics-led case studies.
SaaS Project Development Process: Discovery to Launch
Talented engineers without a process still ship scope drift and 3am outages. Here's the seven-phase SaaS project development process we run from discovery to launch — technical discovery, environment parity, agile sprints, CI/QA, UAT, canary deploys, and post-launch tuning.
SaaS Features That Seem Simple But Are Complex
The ticket said 'simple.' The ticket is always lying. Here are seven SaaS features that look like an afternoon's work and are secretly a message queue, a search engine, or a distributed-systems problem — and what's actually under the surface of each.
SaaS Codebase Review: Common Mistakes Founders Make
An enterprise security audit will find these eight things whether you prepared for them or not. Here's the SaaS codebase review we run before that audit does: soft-delete constraints, secrets in Git, missing indexes, God services, audit trails, blocking the event loop, error telemetry, and password hashing.
How to Work With a Software Development Agency
The best projects we ship have one thing in common, and it isn't the budget — it's the client. Here's how to work with a software development agency so your build finishes on time: a single product owner, video feedback, change orders, fast access, and your own UAT.
How to Estimate Software Project Cost
A single-point software estimate is a fiction someone pays for later. Here's how to estimate software project cost honestly: decompose the work, run three-point PERT, apply a velocity multiplier for the non-coding reality, and quote a range tied to the cone of uncertainty.
Building a Software Agency: First-Year Hard Truths
I thought the first year of an agency would be 80% architecture and 20% admin. It was the reverse. Here are eight hard truths from a developer's first year building a software agency — about sales, pricing, scope, communication, and the cash-flow gap nobody warns you about.
Time-Series Data in PostgreSQL Without TimescaleDB
You probably don't need TimescaleDB or ClickHouse for your metrics. Here's how to store hundreds of millions of time-series rows in vanilla PostgreSQL: range partitioning, lean composite and BRIN indexes, gapless charts with generate_series, and retention by dropping partitions in microseconds.
Healthcare SaaS HIPAA Compliance: Technical Rules
Whole-disk encryption and a privacy policy don't make you HIPAA compliant. Here are the technical rules that actually pass an audit: field-level encryption, TLS 1.3, immutable audit logs, least privilege, signed BAAs, and automated breach detection.
Software Project Discovery Phase - Complete Process and Deliverables Guide
Why skipping discovery is the #1 reason SaaS projects fail. Our exact 4-week discovery process with real timelines, who participates, and the 3 key deliverables that turn ideas into ship-ready products.
SaaS Testing Strategy — What We Test, How Much, and What We Skip
Every SaaS product faces a dilemma: test everything thoroughly, or focus on what actually matters. Our testing strategy is the result of shipping software 20 times, learning what kills projects and what wastes engineer time. Here is exactly what we test, what we skip, and why.