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      <title><![CDATA[How to Evaluate a Codebase Before Your Series A]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why We Chose Go for a Community Memorial Platform]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Multi-Party Payments Marketplace with Stripe Connect and GraphQL]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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