November 25, 2025
Authentication Mistakes Found in Small SaaS Apps
The same auth mistakes show up again and again in small SaaS codebases — and auth is the one area where a…
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November 13, 2025
Why Your SaaS Trial-to-Paid Conversion Is Stuck
Sign-ups look healthy but few trials convert. The instinct is to tweak pricing — but it's usually about the first session, not…
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November 2, 2025
Database Indexes That Quietly Save SaaS Apps From Slowdowns
An app feels instant with a hundred users and crawls with ten thousand. Nothing in the code changed — the data grew,…
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October 21, 2025
Rate Limiting a SaaS API Without Punishing Real Users
Every public API needs rate limiting, or one bad actor hammers it down. But clumsy limits punish your best customers. The goal:…
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October 10, 2025
Building a Chrome Extension With React: Lessons Learned
Putting React in an extension sounds simple — it's just a web app in a popup. Mostly. But the extension environment has…
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October 2, 2025
How to Store Data Securely in a Chrome Extension
Extensions handle sensitive data and run in a shared browser, so where and how you store matters more than in a normal…
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September 23, 2025
Common Manifest V3 Mistakes That Get Extensions Rejected
The Web Store rejects a lot of MV3 extensions, and the emails are vague. Most of the time it's one of a…
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September 15, 2025
Why Your Flutter App Janks on Older Android Phones
Smooth on your test device, stuttering on a three-year-old budget Android. The jank usually traces to doing too much work on the…
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September 6, 2025
Reducing Flutter App Size Before You Hit the Store Limit
Flutter apps aren't small, and a bloated download hurts twice. Trimming the size is mostly cutting what you don't ship and building…
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August 29, 2025
The Three-Second Rule: Why Users Leave Before Your Page Loads
A large share of visitors abandon a page that takes more than about three seconds. They don't complain — they hit back,…
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