Solo SaaS5 min
The free-tier quota that took my product down for two days
A daily read quota reset at 07:00 UTC, a poller that never slept, and a product that died every afternoon. What went wrong and the three things that hid it.
Notes / Solo SaaS
Engineering a SaaS alone
Running a product alone removes the gap between writing code and being responsible for it. These notes are the incidents and the design decisions from two SaaS products I built, shipped and still operate on my own — including the ones that went badly.
Covered here
- Incidents
- Real-time synchronization
- Sandboxed execution
- Quotas and limits
- Webhooks
- Operating solo