How to Evaluate a Codebase Before Your Series A
Investors will ask about your technical foundation. Most founders have no idea what's actually in their codebase. Here is what to look at and what red flags to find before they do.
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Why We Chose Go for a Community Memorial Platform
A technical deep-dive into building Memorial: a privacy-first platform for families to create lasting tributes. Why we picked Go over Node.js and FastAPI, how we modeled granular privacy controls in PostgreSQL, and what we learned shipping a product built for emotional moments.
Read more →Building a Multi-Party Payments Marketplace with Stripe Connect and GraphQL
A technical deep-dive into building Mercurylist: an event signup and payments platform with Stripe Connect multi-party payouts, a unified GraphQL API serving both web and mobile, and real-time subscriptions. Shipped to production in 12 weeks.
Read more →How We Indexed 363K Artist Profiles in 12 Weeks
A technical deep-dive into building My Favorite Bands: a music discovery and social platform with 363,793 searchable artist profiles, fast indexed search, and a full CI/CD pipeline, shipped from concept to production in 12 weeks.
Read more →Why Early-Stage Startups Hire an Agency Instead of a Full-Time Engineer
Hiring a senior engineer full-time sounds like the obvious move. Here's why so many early-stage founders choose an agency instead, and when that's the right call.
Read more →What You Actually Get Out of Week 1
Discovery week isn't a formality. Here's exactly what we do, what we build, and what you walk away with — regardless of what happens next.
Read more →What 12 Weeks of Building Actually Looks Like
A week-by-week breakdown of how a two-person team takes a product from zero to live — based on how we actually work, not how it looks in a pitch deck.
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