Patterns and implementations for building, scaling, and operating SaaS products.
Apr 4, 2026
Switching from Drizzle/Postgres to Convex collapsed the frontend-backend gap, doubled development speed, and let me cancel $230/month in third-party services. Here is how the migration worked and what it unlocked.
Apr 3, 2026
I replaced a WordPress multisite with a custom Next.js app backed by Postgres. Load times dropped from 8 seconds to under 2. But the platform was still fractured across a dozen third-party services, and every schema change was a deployment risk.
Apr 1, 2026
Seven years ago I set out to build a multi-tenant platform on WordPress Multisite. All client data lived in one database, third-party glue held everything together, and a $100/mo host still could not keep up. Here is what I learned — and why I had to leave WordPress behind.
Mar 27, 2026
Every customer wanted something different. The CRM customer needed contacts. The LMS customer needed courses. We were shipping bloated software that served nobody well. Here is how plugins fixed it.
Mar 26, 2026
A customer asked for Monday.com integration. We could have hard-coded it into the core. Instead, we built a plugin system — and 18 months later we have 34 plugins serving 27 apps.
Mar 23, 2026
Monday.com's app framework promises drag-and-drop integration. The reality involves undocumented OAuth quirks, a pagebuilder that fights your layout, and an approval process that rejects you for reasons you cannot reproduce.
