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We run deep research to fact check most things to avoid hallucinations.

I've launched multiple online websites in the past, but it always took a lot of my time to do the SEO work so that the website would actually rank on Google & get cited by ChatGPT.…

While I don’t question the maturity model in itself (which I read after the incident and that’s why I started gitting migrations just after), I realized it was harder than other Su…

I tried to have a conversational, story-telling style, maybe that's why you think there are lots of "AI-isms". But I take this as a feedback for the next editions: less fluff, more…

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. Rankbid and other projects I've made, I built from scratch myself. They have strong, solid, technical foundations. Try them for you…

When you are a 3 people startup, I'd argue there is no such thing as "business hours". I worked every day back then. I'll concede that the "Friday Night" part in the title might be…

Definitely! I had just finished the migration back then so that's why we were still on the free plan, but we had planned on enabling even PITR

Why do you take the paid plan when getting started?

I use transactions all the time for my other projects and I've read the great Designing Data Intensive Applications which cover the topic of linearization in depth.

I agree. They also push you not to git migrations at first, which is definitely not the best practice.

It's hard to have 2 people available when you have a 2 people tech team. We were very early back then, MVP stage.

While I agree with everything said here about making backups etc. and which I have done in my career at later stage companies, when you are just starting out and building MVPs, I'd…

Thanks for your takeaway. Yes the dev environment is definitely a must as soon as you start growing!

Harsh but untrue (for the AI-generated part).

I'm building a cashback rates comparator for France :) https://www.best-cashback.com/

Hey, My name is Vincent, I'm an independent developer and I just launched my first SaaS, Rankbid, a platform that helps businesses run self-service auctions to sell ad space or pro…