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Sep 12, 2025
8 min read
Jio Supabase Issue: Why Apps Break on Jio and How to Fix It Properly
Supabase apps work on Airtel and office WiFi but fail on JioFiber and Jio mobile data: Failed to Fetch, WebSocket timeouts, broken auth. Diagnosed as ISP-level DNS / routing filtering, with four production-grade fixes.
SupabaseLovableDNSMay 3, 2026
18 min read
WordPress Performance Optimization: What Actually Works (Data-Backed Study)
We analysed 100 WordPress websites: 78% failed Core Web Vitals. A data-backed study of what actually slows WordPress down (page builders, plugins, hosting) and which fixes deliver real ROI.
WordPressPerformanceCore Web VitalsMay 2, 2026
22 min read
Tech stacks clients pay for vs what developers actually want, 2026 data report
12 web stacks compared across usage, developer preference, admiration, client demand, and freelance rate, with four original metrics (DPGI, SMS, HRR, Legacy Lock-in) computed from Stack Overflow, State of JS, W3Techs and salary data.
ResearchStack Analysis2026Mar 10, 2026
20 min read
We Audited 31 Lovable / Bolt / v0 / Cursor Codebases. Here's What Survives Production.
A code-level teardown of 31 AI-generated SaaS prototypes: three proprietary metrics (PSR, TDR, RCM) and a 10-mode failure taxonomy.
AIVibe CodingProductionMar 14, 2026
20 min read
Series A Code Audit: Inside 23 Funded SaaS Codebases
Patterns from 23 SaaS codebase audits: opens with one anonymised takeover, then aggregates the rubric findings. TDS, KPC, MTS.
EngineeringTech DebtSaaSMar 19, 2026
20 min read
WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Risk: A 217-Plugin Security Audit
Open with the incident response that started this report. 217 plugins audited across 14 categories with PVR / MFI / RAI scoring.
WordPressSecurityResearchMar 24, 2026
20 min read
JavaScript SEO Reality Check: We Crawled 103 Funded SaaS Marketing Sites
41% of funded SaaS marketing sites are not reliably indexable. Original metrics RDI, CBE, JSC quantify the gap, and how to close it.
SEOJavaScriptSaaSMar 29, 2026
18 min read
Indexing Decay: A 217-Page, 12-Month Panel on When Google Drops Stale Content
We tracked 217 pages across four content types for a year. Decay curves, half-lives, and the refresh cadence that recovers traffic.
SEOContentResearchApr 2, 2026
19 min read
Lovable / Bolt to Production: The Real Cost & Timeline (20 Engagements, 1 Anatomy)
Opens with a deep teardown of one specific AI-prototype-to-production engagement, then aggregates cost and timeline across 20 projects.
AIVibe CodingEngagement DataApr 8, 2026
19 min read
The Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture Decision: Cost & Engineering Hours Across 4 Patterns
Per-pattern cost, isolation, and onboarding eng-hours for the four common multi-tenancy approaches. TIC, AOC, BCM metrics.
SaaSArchitectureMulti-tenantApr 13, 2026
17 min read
Schema.org for SaaS: Which JSON-LD Types Actually Move Rankings (57-page A/B Study)
90 days, 57 SaaS pages, 10 schema types. FAQ delivered 22% CTR lift; Article delivered noise. Schema-by-schema breakdowns.
SEOSchemaA/B TestApr 17, 2026
21 min read
Per-Token Economics: What an AI Feature Actually Costs in Production (47 SaaS Sample)
Real per-MAU token cost data across 47 production AI SaaS products. CPMU by feature class, model-tier routing, and the unit-economic decision.
AIUnit EconomicsSaaSApr 22, 2026
18 min read
Shopify Plus vs Advanced: A Cost-Per-Order Analysis at 7 Revenue Tiers
Real CPO math for Shopify Plus vs Advanced across $500k to $50M GMV, and the GMV at which the upgrade pays back. 24 audited merchants.
ShopifyE-commerceCost AnalysisApr 27, 2026
19 min read
Replatforming to Shopify: Anatomy of One Magento Migration + 23 Engagements of Data
Opens with one specific Magento 2 to Shopify Plus migration end-to-end, then aggregates cost and timeline across 23 replatforms.
ShopifyMigrationE-commerceApr 30, 2026
18 min read
41 React Native App Submissions, Three Rejection War Stories
Three specific rejection narratives from the App Store and Google Play, plus the aggregate rejection-reason data behind 41 RN submissions.
React NativeApp StoreMobileMay 4, 2026
17 min read
OTA Updates in Production: EAS vs CodePush vs Manual, 47 App Cost & Latency Study
OTA cost, adoption-after-release curves, and rollback cost across EAS, CodePush, and manual update strategies on 47 production RN apps.
React NativeOTAMobileMay 8, 2026
20 min read
What an MVP Actually Costs in 2026: Three Founder Stories + 31 Engagements of Data
Three founder stories of 2026 MVP builds, fintech, AI SaaS, marketplace, followed by aggregate cost and bandwidth data across 31 engagements.
MVPStartupCostMay 12, 2026
21 min read
Zero-Downtime Push-to-Deploy on DigitalOcean App Platform vs Vercel, Render and Fly
Anatomy of one deploy, side by side, on four PaaS platforms: timings, traffic-shift mechanics, rollback paths, and the real cost of zero-downtime at 100 RPS.
DevOpsDigitalOceanVercelMay 13, 2026
19 min read
Shopify Functions for Custom Pricing: B2B Tiers, Volume Discounts, Member Rates
Three production patterns for custom pricing built on Shopify Functions: Rust source, metafield design, checkout integration, and the gotchas Scripts users hit.
ShopifyFunctionsB2BMay 14, 2026
23 min read
Building a Production RAG Pipeline: Chunking, Embeddings, Retrieval, Caching
Stage-by-stage architecture for a RAG pipeline running in production: chunk size choices, embedding model tradeoffs, retrieval, reranking, semantic cache, and the cost per 1M queries.
RAGAIVector SearchMay 15, 2026
22 min read
Push Notifications on Expo + FCM + APNs: The Setup That Actually Delivers
End-to-end push setup for React Native apps on Expo, FCM and APNs: token registration, delivery measurement, and the 12 failure modes we see most often when delivery rates drop.
React NativeExpoPush NotificationsMay 16, 2026
20 min read
Stripe Webhooks End-to-End: Signature Verification, Idempotency, Replay, Dead-Letter
The five guarantees a production Stripe webhook handler has to give you: verification, idempotency, ordering, replay, observability, with TypeScript code and the SQL schema we ship.
StripeWebhooksPaymentsMay 17, 2026
21 min read
SSR on Next.js App Router for SEO: What to Render Where, with Measurements
Server Components, Client Components, Streaming SSR, and SSG: what each one does for indexability, TTFB and LCP, with measurements across six pages we migrated.
Next.jsApp RouterSSRMay 18, 2026
20 min read
Cloudflare R2 as the WordPress Media Library: SDK-Free SigV4 in Pure PHP
Replacing the local wp-content/uploads with Cloudflare R2 from a 200-line PHP MU-plugin, no AWS SDK, no Composer, with a custom SigV4 signer and the WP hooks that make it transparent.
WordPressCloudflare R2PHPMay 22, 2026
22 min read
Vibe-Coded to Native: Converting a Lovable Web App into iOS + Android Apps (One Engagement, 14 Weeks)
How we converted GravityOne, a Lovable-built web app with a working Supabase backend, into native iOS and Android apps in 14 weeks. Code-sharing matrix, App Store rejection patterns, OTA strategy, and the per-phase engineering hours from one full engagement.
React NativeLovableMobileJun 2, 2026
18 min read
WordPress to Headless Next.js: Faster, Fully Cached, and Immune to Downtime & Brute Force
Convert a WordPress news or blog site into a headless Next.js front end: read the content WordPress already exposes over the REST API / WPGraphQL, ship static + ISR pages cached at the edge, and lock the WordPress origin away from brute-force attacks and downtime.
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