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Shayan

Building UserJot in Public

Location Maryland, United States Joined Joined on  Personal website https://userjot.com
The One Advice I'd Give My Past Self: Build Boring Sh*t That Sells
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The One Advice I'd Give My Past Self: Build Boring Sh*t That Sells

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Why Good Products Fail: A Reality Check on Marketing
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Why Good Products Fail: A Reality Check on Marketing

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The Backwards Way to $10K MRR: Build SEO First, Product Second
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The Backwards Way to $10K MRR: Build SEO First, Product Second

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My SaaS Infrastructure as a Solo Founder
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My SaaS Infrastructure as a Solo Founder

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How to Actually Hit $10K MRR in 2025 (No BS, Just What Works)
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How to Actually Hit $10K MRR in 2025 (No BS, Just What Works)

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Stop Building for "Scale." You Don't Have Users Yet.
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Stop Building for "Scale." You Don't Have Users Yet.

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The Boring SaaS Playbook That Actually Works
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The Boring SaaS Playbook That Actually Works

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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems.
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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems.

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Everyone's Sleeping on GPT-5 Mini (And It's the Only Model That Actually Matters)
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Everyone's Sleeping on GPT-5 Mini (And It's the Only Model That Actually Matters)

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The $700 Monitor That Fixed My 10-Hour Coding Days
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The $700 Monitor That Fixed My 10-Hour Coding Days

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How to Build an MCP Server in TypeScript
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How to Build an MCP Server in TypeScript

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Claude Code Pricing: Is the $200/mo Plan Worth It? (New Rate Limits Explained)
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Claude Code Pricing: Is the $200/mo Plan Worth It? (New Rate Limits Explained)

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I Automated My Entire Dev Workflow with AI (You Won't Believe How Easy It Is)
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I Automated My Entire Dev Workflow with AI (You Won't Believe How Easy It Is)

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Why Your Vibe-Coded App Will Fail (And How to Fix It)
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Why Your Vibe-Coded App Will Fail (And How to Fix It)

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How to Choose the Best Feedback Platform for Your Team
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How to Choose the Best Feedback Platform for Your Team

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Figma Just Shipped Liquid Glass Effects (And They're Actually Good)
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Figma Just Shipped Liquid Glass Effects (And They're Actually Good)

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How to Use Larger Runners in GitHub Actions for Faster Workflows
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How to Use Larger Runners in GitHub Actions for Faster Workflows

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14 Harsh Truths About Building SaaS (That No One Talks About)
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14 Harsh Truths About Building SaaS (That No One Talks About)

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How I'd Validate a SaaS Idea in 2025 (Without Writing Code)
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How I'd Validate a SaaS Idea in 2025 (Without Writing Code)

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7 Mistakes Every Developer Makes When Building Their First SaaS (And How I Fixed Them)
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7 Mistakes Every Developer Makes When Building Their First SaaS (And How I Fixed Them)

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20 React Tricks Every Developer Should Know
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20 React Tricks Every Developer Should Know

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20 TypeScript Tricks Every Developer Should Know
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20 TypeScript Tricks Every Developer Should Know

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ORMs Are Good, Actually.
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ORMs Are Good, Actually.

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Everyone Is Wrong About SQLite
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Everyone Is Wrong About SQLite

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Google's Free Gemini CLI Takes on Claude Code's $200/mo Pricing
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Google's Free Gemini CLI Takes on Claude Code's $200/mo Pricing

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The 7 Tools I Use Every Day to Build My 5,000-User SaaS
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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
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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
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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?
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How Do You Know If You Have Product-Market Fit?

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I Replaced MongoDB with a Single Postgres Table
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I Replaced MongoDB with a Single Postgres Table

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You're Reading Startup Books Wrong (And It's Killing Your Progress)
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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)
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Postgres is Too Good (And Why That's Actually a Problem)

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Why Most Startup Founders Fail
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Why Most Startup Founders Fail

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Merchant of Record: The Complete Guide for SaaS Founders
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Merchant of Record: The Complete Guide for SaaS Founders

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What Is Net Profit and How Do You Calculate It?
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What Is Net Profit and How Do You Calculate It?

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Are You Actually Making Money From Each Customer?
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Are You Actually Making Money From Each Customer?

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

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Swift Could've Been a Great Server-Side Language
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Swift Could've Been a Great Server-Side Language

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The Serverless Dream Is Dead
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The Serverless Dream Is Dead

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Zod Just Got a Major Upgrade: Here's Everything You're Missing
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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A Simple Framework for Designing User Interfaces (for Solo Devs & Small Teams)

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Stripe Just Became a Merchant of Record
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Stripe Just Became a Merchant of Record

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MVP Means Viable, Not Shitty
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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.
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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
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How to Calculate and Actually Reduce Your Churn Rate

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

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You've Built Your First SaaS… Now What?
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You've Built Your First SaaS… Now What?

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You Don't Need Permission to Ship
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You Don't Need Permission to Ship

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Your Entire Tech Stack Could Be Postgres and a Docker Container
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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)
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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
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My SaaS Emails Look Boring: That's Why They Work

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This Framework Made Me Love Building Websites Again
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This Framework Made Me Love Building Websites Again

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Got 1 Paying User. Time to Move to Kubernetes.
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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
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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
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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)
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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”
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What I Actually Do When I Say I'm “Working on My SaaS”

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