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Shayan

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Location Maryland, United States Joined Joined on  Personal website https://userjot.com
The 7 Tools I Use Every Day to Build My 5,000-User SaaS

The 7 Tools I Use Every Day to Build My 5,000-User SaaS

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I Switched from Nginx to Caddy and I'll Never Go Back

I Switched from Nginx to Caddy and I'll Never Go Back

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I Stopped Using Try-Catch in TypeScript and You Should Too

I Stopped Using Try-Catch in TypeScript and You Should Too

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How Do You Know If You Have Product-Market Fit?

How Do You Know If You Have Product-Market Fit?

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I Replaced MongoDB with a Single Postgres Table

I Replaced MongoDB with a Single Postgres Table

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You're Reading Startup Books Wrong (And It's Killing Your Progress)

You're Reading Startup Books Wrong (And It's Killing Your Progress)

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Postgres is Too Good (And Why That's Actually a Problem)

Postgres is Too Good (And Why That's Actually a Problem)

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Why Most Startup Founders Fail

Why Most Startup Founders Fail

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Merchant of Record: The Complete Guide for SaaS Founders

Merchant of Record: The Complete Guide for SaaS Founders

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What Is Net Profit and How Do You Calculate It?

What Is Net Profit and How Do You Calculate It?

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Are You Actually Making Money From Each Customer?

Are You Actually Making Money From Each Customer?

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Canny Changed Their Pricing Again, and It Got Even More Expensive

Canny Changed Their Pricing Again, and It Got Even More Expensive

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Swift Could've Been a Great Server-Side Language

Swift Could've Been a Great Server-Side Language

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The Serverless Dream Is Dead

The Serverless Dream Is Dead

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Zod Just Got a Major Upgrade: Here's Everything You're Missing

Zod Just Got a Major Upgrade: Here's Everything You're Missing

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Serverless Is a Lie (Unless You’re Using SQLite)

Serverless Is a Lie (Unless You’re Using SQLite)

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This One Stripe Field Could Save You from Fraud (And No One Talks About It)

This One Stripe Field Could Save You from Fraud (And No One Talks About It)

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Your Engineering Velocity Is the Only Metric That Matters

Your Engineering Velocity Is the Only Metric That Matters

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A Simple Framework for Designing User Interfaces (for Solo Devs & Small Teams)

A Simple Framework for Designing User Interfaces (for Solo Devs & Small Teams)

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Stripe Just Became a Merchant of Record

Stripe Just Became a Merchant of Record

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MVP Means Viable, Not Shitty

MVP Means Viable, Not Shitty

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AI Isn’t My Pair Programmer. It’s My Intern. And It Has to Pass My Tests.

AI Isn’t My Pair Programmer. It’s My Intern. And It Has to Pass My Tests.

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How to Calculate and Actually Reduce Your Churn Rate

How to Calculate and Actually Reduce Your Churn Rate

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AI Killed Your Competitive Edge. Here's What Will Save It.

AI Killed Your Competitive Edge. Here's What Will Save It.

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You've Built Your First SaaS… Now What?

You've Built Your First SaaS… Now What?

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You Don't Need Permission to Ship

You Don't Need Permission to Ship

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Your Entire Tech Stack Could Be Postgres and a Docker Container

Your Entire Tech Stack Could Be Postgres and a Docker Container

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Nobody Cares About Your Tech Stack (and That's a Good Thing)

Nobody Cares About Your Tech Stack (and That's a Good Thing)

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My SaaS Emails Look Boring: That's Why They Work

My SaaS Emails Look Boring: That's Why They Work

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This Framework Made Me Love Building Websites Again

This Framework Made Me Love Building Websites Again

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Got 1 Paying User. Time to Move to Kubernetes.

Got 1 Paying User. Time to Move to Kubernetes.

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My Backend Stack Is Just TypeScript + Postgres. Here’s Why That’s Enough

My Backend Stack Is Just TypeScript + Postgres. Here’s Why That’s Enough

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I Started Saying "No" to Feature Requests — My Product Got Better Overnight

I Started Saying "No" to Feature Requests — My Product Got Better Overnight

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How I’d Build a SaaS in 2025 (If I Were Starting From Scratch)

How I’d Build a SaaS in 2025 (If I Were Starting From Scratch)

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What I Actually Do When I Say I'm “Working on My SaaS”

What I Actually Do When I Say I'm “Working on My SaaS”

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12 Apps in 12 Months Is Dumb

12 Apps in 12 Months Is Dumb

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Your Feedback Form is Lying to You

Your Feedback Form is Lying to You

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This TypeScript Library Helped Me Build Full-Stack Apps Faster

This TypeScript Library Helped Me Build Full-Stack Apps Faster

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Postgres Is All You Need

Postgres Is All You Need

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How I Built My Own User Feedback Platform

How I Built My Own User Feedback Platform

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Top 5 Fider.io Alternatives in 2025

Top 5 Fider.io Alternatives in 2025

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Top 5 Usersnap Alternatives in 2025

Top 5 Usersnap Alternatives in 2025

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Top 5 FeedBear Alternatives in 2025

Top 5 FeedBear Alternatives in 2025

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Top 5 Nolt.io Alternatives for Feedback Management in 2025

Top 5 Nolt.io Alternatives for Feedback Management in 2025

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Top Product Feedback Tools in 2025

Top Product Feedback Tools in 2025

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Create Templates in Node.js with Handlebar

Create Templates in Node.js with Handlebar

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Top 5 Canny Alternatives in 2025

Top 5 Canny Alternatives in 2025

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Top 5 Upvoty Alternatives in 2025

Top 5 Upvoty Alternatives in 2025

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Tailwind CSS 4.0 Is Here: What You Need to Know

Tailwind CSS 4.0 Is Here: What You Need to Know

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Top 5 Customer Success Tools For SaaS Products in 2025

Top 5 Customer Success Tools For SaaS Products in 2025

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Build your own AI search engine similar to Perplexity

Build your own AI search engine similar to Perplexity

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Run DeepSeek-R1 on Your Laptop with Ollama

Run DeepSeek-R1 on Your Laptop with Ollama

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Top 10 GitHub Repositories every Web Developer should know in 2025

Top 10 GitHub Repositories every Web Developer should know in 2025

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Setting up Vite with TypeScript for a Simple To-Do List

Setting up Vite with TypeScript for a Simple To-Do List

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Teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to do Math Correctly

Teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to do Math Correctly

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Using LRU Cache in Node.js and TypeScript

Using LRU Cache in Node.js and TypeScript

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