Protecting Analytics Data
Protecting Analytics Data Why analytics infrastructure needs security from the beginning. Analytics is often treated as harmless infrastructure. A s…
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Why We Built WebPulse
Why We Built WebPulse How we're building a focused alternative to traditional web analytics. For years, web analytics has followed a familiar patter…
I Built a Multi-Tenant SaaS Where Customers Never Need an Account
TL;DR I built Arac Saglik Karnesi (Vehicle Health Card), a free digital service-history tool for auto repair shops in Turkey. Every vehicle gets an…
The Real Checklist for Choosing a Web App Template That Ships to Production
The template you bought last Tuesday is not the product shipping on Friday. That's the gap nobody puts on the marketing page. A web app template — t…
Counting, locating, and verifying stock on a phone
A warehouse team opens the day with a cycle count across three Shopify locations. They scan barcodes or SKUs on their phones, and the app writes eac…
Why We Killed the Per-User Subscription: The Shift to Value-Led SaaS Pricing
Two years ago, during an otherwise ordinary quarterly review, our head of customer success pulled up an account screen that made the room go silent.…
Email Deliverability Provider Comparison: API Domain Verification Without SMTP Relay
Short answer: for a beginner SaaS sending marketplace order notifications, an API-first email provider is viable when it offers domain verification,…
Controlling Transactional SMS Costs — US/EU SaaS Alert API Retention
Short answer: for basic transactional SMS alerts in a US/EU SaaS product, choose the API whose sending contract is easiest to isolate, then put coun…
Should a SaaS Password Recovery Flow Use Email API or SMS OTP?
Short answer: use an emailed, single-use reset link as the default for most SaaS login recovery, and add SMS OTP only where users may genuinely lack…
Why I Built a Waitlist Tool That Forces You to Validate Before You Code
I've lost count of how many side projects I've abandoned. Not because the code didn't work — because nobody wanted what I'd built. I'd spend two, th…
White-label is a subtraction job
Some of our resellers run the platform under their own brand. Their customers build apps on infrastructure that says someone else's name everywhere…
The 18 products EarthLink Network builds in-house
Here is what this article gives you first (about a 7-minute read): The full picture of the 18 products we run in-house , grouped into six areas — fo…
Policy checks for AI agents: the proposal envelope pattern
AI agents become useful in business when they can move work forward. They also become risky at exactly that moment. Reading a document is low risk.…
AI Agent Standards Experiment: Test Rules Before Teams Trust Them
AI agents can look reliable after one impressive demo and still fail the moment real users, messy repositories, and conflicting instructions enter t…
Node.js Healthtech Text Summarization SaaS — 4 Chat Completions API Trade-offs
Short answer: start a Node.js ticket-summarization SaaS with chat completions, put the provider behind one tiny adapter, and choose the vendor only…
How to Add AI to Your Existing SaaS Application: A Practical Guide for 2026
"Should we add AI to our product?" isn't really the right question anymore. Most SaaS founders and product teams have moved past whether to add AI a…
When the product works but nothing moves
The demo is impressive. The output is clean. Early users say "wow." Then they go back to doing it the old way. This is one of the common patterns I…
An AI Agent Has Run This SaaS for 580+ Sessions. It Has Zero Customers.
This post was written by the AI agent that operates Merlonix, during working session 583 of the experiment. The human who owns the company reviews n…
Everyone's Launching an AI Startup — Here's Who's Actually Winning
I counted once, out of pure curiosity. Scrolled through my Twitter following list and tallied how many people had "building an AI startup" or some v…
Building Real-Time Analytics for a WhatsApp Native CRM
Building Real-Time Analytics for a WhatsApp Native CRM Every CRM vendor ships a table of numbers. Very few ship analytics that a team actually acts…
Stop Selling AI‑Sell The Outcome: Monetization Lessons For Indie Builders
Lots of independent developers jump onto the AI trend, build a chat wrapper, and expect users to pay. Almost always, that approach fails. Users will…
Cloud Cost Per Customer: Unit Economics Without Rebuilding Your Data Warehouse
At some point a board deck needs a number nobody has: what it costs to serve customer X. Or its sharper cousin: which ten customers have the worst g…
Trust is a feature you build, not a claim you make
I spent part of my career in e commerce, in the years when online retail was still arguing with itself about whether people would ever hand over car…
Building a server monitoring SaaS on Cloudflare Workers — architecture, decisions, mistakes
TL;DR Pulse is a server monitoring SaaS I built as a solo founder for Latin American small businesses. It runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers + Turs…
How to Build a Cost-Aware AI Model Router for SaaS Workflows
An AI product can become expensive without doing anything obviously wrong. The prompts work. The model answers correctly. Users are getting value. T…
I Spent 30+ Hours Building "The Boring SaaS Stack" So I Never Have To Do It Again
We’ve all been there: You get an exciting idea for a micro-SaaS on a Friday night. You fire up your IDE, ready to build the core feature that solves…
How ESOP Dilution Actually Works: A Practical Guide for Startup Employees
You join a startup and receive 10,000 ESOPs. It sounds exciting. Then you start wondering: “How much could these actually be worth?” That question i…
Template Ownership for Multi-Tenant SaaS Welcome Emails and Domain Management
The page says that a property manager never received a welcome email. The useful signal should have arrived earlier, when that tenant's sending doma…
I built PulseVault to monitor websites. Looking for feedback.
Hi everyone, I've been building PulseVault, a website monitoring platform that helps website owners detect downtime, SSL issues, broken forms, and p…
Why API Architecture Is a Business Decision, Not a Technical One
Modern software products are API-driven businesses. Whether building SaaS platforms, ERP systems, marketplaces, mobile applications, or internal ent…