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How to Build an MCP Server for Your SaaS: What Shipping Ours Taught Me
Last month I shipped an MCP server for Drumbeats. The code for the first working version took one day. The three weeks around that day are where every…
I built a behavioral analytics tool for app builders — here's why and how
Every solo developer hits the same wall eventually. You ship something. You get users. Then one by one, they quietly disappear. No error in your logs.…
The Production Leap: Scaling Agent Workflows Globally on thingd.cloud (Part 4)
Over the last three posts, we explored the concept of "Zero-UI" software, deep-dived into our high-performance Rust core engine, and wrote local agent…
A no-code way to scrape live World Cup betting odds
This World Cup has been full of upsets — Norway knocking out Brazil, Cabo Verde drawing with both Spain and Uruguay, all four pre-tournament favorites…
7 Best Tools to Build a B2B SaaS App in 2026
B2B SaaS is a different product than B2C SaaS — in ways that matter for tooling decisions. B2B customers buy at the company level (account-based acces…
Your SaaS Mascot Should Do More Than Just Sit There
Interactive Rive mascots can react, think, talk, and connect to real AI, SaaS, web, and mobile products. Your SaaS Mascot Should Do More Than Just Sit…
🚀 I Built CODELIVLY — A Platform to Learn Cybersecurity Through Hands-On Practice
Over the past year, I've been building CODELIVLY, a cybersecurity learning platform focused on helping beginners and aspiring professionals learn by d…
The SaaS Metrics Every Founder Should Track (MRR, CAC, LTV, Runway)
Most early SaaS dashboards I see track the wrong things. Page views. Signups. Total revenue this quarter. Those numbers feel good and tell you almost …
We Analyzed 89 Dead Lifetime Deals. 1 in 8 Died While the Company Was Still Alive.
If you've ever bought a lifetime deal on AppSumo, PitchGround, or StackSocial, you've made a bet: pay once, own it forever. Most of the time that bet …
Cloud AI is not AI — it's a service you rent
When people talk about AI today, they are not talking about artificial intelligence. They are talking about a service . You send a prompt to a server.…
Will your tracker still exist next year? Switching-cost anxiety, and the one-command exit
You are not really deciding whether a tracker is good today. You are betting on whether it will still be the tracker you want a year from now, after t…
How to add a changelog to any web app with one script tag
You ship all the time. A fix here, a new setting there, a feature you spent a whole weekend on. And your users mostly don't notice. That gap is expens…
What Indie SaaS Founders Should Monitor Before Users Complain
Before your first 100 customers, monitoring can feel like something you will set up later. You are still building features. You are still finding posi…
We crawled 50 B2B SaaS sites to benchmark AI citation readiness
AI citation readiness is a simple question with awkward consequences: If an answer engine tries to describe your SaaS product, can it find enough publ…
I built a Product Hunt-style launchpad for makers who want discovery beyond launch day
Most launch platforms treat launch day like the finish line. You ship, you spike, you disappear. I kept seeing the same pattern: makers get a burst of…
Moving 20,000+ customers to a new Stripe account without anyone noticing
None of our 20,000+ US customers know this happened: last month, we moved them, their payment methods, subscriptions, credits, coupons, and promotion …
Orchestrated AI Agents vs. a Single Monolithic Prompt: Lessons from Building a Branding Platform
Most "AI-powered" tools in the branding/marketing space are a single LLM call wrapped in a UI: one prompt in, one generic output out. That works fine …
Multi-Tenant Stripe Connect Payments in a Go SaaS Platform
The problem We build Verify365, a white-label SaaS platform used by several law firms, each under its own brand. Every partner firm needs payments to …
Billing a Bulk Endpoint Where Any Row Might Be Free
I already had per-invoice billing working: reserve a credit, do the expensive call, settle or refund. Then I added a bulk endpoint — paste a list, ver…
The Real Cost Structure of Sportsbook Platforms in 2026 (Build vs Buy)
A build-vs-buy cost breakdown for founders eyeing the betting vertical — real 2026 numbers. Every few months a founder asks me why sportsbook platform…
Paddle rejected my account. Here's the map of what actually works in 2026
Disclosure before anything else: I'm Oded, co-founder of UniPaaS, the FCA-authorised Payment Institution (No. 929994) behind paas.build, and we compet…
How Long Does a Dynamics 365 CE Implementation Actually Take?
Most organisations approach a Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement implementation with one question at the top of their agenda: How long will this take? I…
I built an AI shopping assistant for Shopify stores — here's what I learned
Shopify merchants deal with a brutal reality: most visitors leave without buying anything. Average ecommerce conversion rates sit around 2-3%. The oth…
AI Agent Runtime Policy: Stop Dangerous Tool Calls Before They Execute
An AI agent does not need to be malicious to damage production. It only needs the wrong tool, the wrong database, the wrong customer ID, or one confid…
Salesforce Education Cloud: A Modern Alternative to EDA
Executive Summary The Salesforce Education Data Architecture (EDA) has served educational institutions well for over a decade as a free, community-sup…
We asked AI to recommend tools in three SaaS categories 20 times each, and the shape of the answers told us which ones a challenger can still win
More buyers now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini for a tool before they ever open Google. So we started measuring what those models actually…
We reworded one buyer question and watched a shared inbox tool drop from 10 out of 10 to zero on ChatGPT
More and more buyers ask an AI model before they ever open Google. So we started measuring what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini actually say w…
100 Days Building PostAll in Public: What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong, What's Next
On Day 1, PostAll was a script that called the OpenAI API and dumped the output into a text file. On Day 100, it's a platform with a formatting engine…
App Ideas That Make Money: What the Data Actually Shows
Everyone wants app ideas that make money. But most lists of "profitable app ideas" are just someone's guesses dressed up as advice. They'll tell you t…