The Problem That Made Me Test Both The breaking point wasn’t a crash or a missing feature. It was a Zapier bill. One Zap — a single lead routing workflow for one client — was burning through 400+ tasks per month. That’s a client on HubSpot sending form submissions to Google Sheets, triggering a Slack … Read more
Introduction: The AI Chatbot space in 2026 In 2026, SaaS customer support is increasingly leaning on AI chatbots to handle routine inquiries. But, despite the leaps in AI capabilities, we’re not anywhere near ditching human touch altogether. Let’s dive into why AI is seen as a critical tool in this space, and why it’s not … Read more
The Problem: Your E-Commerce App Refreshes Like It’s 2008 Your Django App Is Lying to Customers Right Now Here’s a scenario I’ve debugged more times than I want to admit: a sneaker drop goes live, two customers both see “1 item left in stock,” both click Add to Cart, both get a confirmation email — … Read more
Introduction I’ll tell you straight up—running volunteer teams without burning a hole in your pocket can be a wild ride, especially as we hit 2026. I’ve spent countless nights strategizing efficient ways to juggle projects with zero budget. It’s a kind of dance between optimism and sheer necessity. Many of us leading these teams do … Read more
The Problem That Made Me Try Both The sprint planning meeting that broke me happened on a Tuesday afternoon. Four of us had the same Google Sheet open — the one we’d been using as a “temporary” backlog tracker for eight months — and we were watching each other’s cursors collide in real time. Someone’s … Read more
Why Healthcare App Development is a Different Beast Most apps you build are forgiving. You ship a bug, you push a fix, users are mildly annoyed. Healthcare is not that. The first time a client asks you to pull an audit log of every field that was touched on a patient record — and you … Read more
The Problem With Letting Netlify Own Your Build Pipeline Netlify’s Git integration is genuinely great for the first week of a project. You connect a repo, it detects your framework, and deploys happen automatically on every push. That convenience has a ceiling, and most teams hit it faster than they expect. The ceiling I hit … Read more
Why I Stopped Recommending Asana to Nonprofits The Moment I Knew Asana Wasn’t Built for This The thing that broke it for me was Gantt charts — or rather, Asana quietly locking timeline view behind a paid plan. I was helping a small animal rescue org map out their summer adoption event schedule across four … Read more
Why Healthcare App Dev Is a Different Beast Pick the wrong low-code platform for a healthcare project and you won’t just waste a sprint — you’ll spend three months ripping out integrations that never should have been built. I’ve seen teams get six weeks into a patient portal build before realizing their chosen platform logs … Read more
The Problem With Netlify’s Default Git Integration Netlify’s built-in Git integration is genuinely great — right up until your team grows past one person or your site does anything more interesting than render HTML. The default behavior is simple: push to main, Netlify picks it up, your site is live in 60–90 seconds. No friction. … Read more