The minimum viable product is one of the most quoted and least understood ideas in startup building. Founders routinely describe an MVP that is neither minimum nor viable: a feature-rich first release that takes nine months to build and answers no clear question. The...
It is tempting to treat pricing and profitability as commercial concerns to settle once the product is built. In SaaS, that assumption is expensive. The way you meter usage, structure plans and consume cloud resources is determined by engineering decisions made long...
The hardest part of building a SaaS product is rarely the engineering. It is deciding what to build, in what order, and when to stop adding before you have evidence that anyone wants it. Teams that get sequencing wrong tend to fail in one of two ways: they ship a thin...
One of the earliest and most consequential decisions in building a SaaS product is how to isolate your customers from one another. The tenancy model you choose shapes your cloud bill, your security posture, your release process and even the kinds of customers you can...
Few early decisions shape a startup’s trajectory as quietly, and as durably, as the technology stack. The languages, frameworks, databases, and cloud services chosen in the first weeks tend to outlive the assumptions that produced them. Pick well, and the stack...
