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Helping SaaS teams stabilise fragile systems (availability)

If your AWS setup feels fragile, it’s rarely one big issue

Building while needing cash flow is a different game

If your SaaS needs restarting to work, it’s a design issue

Why I moved from event names to action + entity

Most SaaS systems don’t fail because of scale - they fail because they’re fragile

One thing I’ve realised building in hospitality

I lost a pilot customer… because they built it themselves

Most SaaS systems don’t fail because of scale - they fail because they’re fragile

Most SaaS systems don’t fail because of scale - they fail because they’re fragile

Most SaaS systems don’t fail because of scale - they fail because they’re fragile

I lost a pilot customer… because they built it themselves

I lost a pilot customer… because they built it themselves

Competing on price to carve out an $18k MRR foothold

How to block a deploy when signup or checkout breaks

I spent a week auditing every page of my SaaS with Claude's help. Here's what I found (it was ugly)