The Archive · 2013 — Now
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Marketing Teams Work Together. Now STRATUM Does Too.
I shipped team collaboration features in alpha with <50 users because my customers were already working in teams—just through painful screenshots and copy-paste workarounds that cost 80+ hours per year.
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My Database Was "Correct." It Was Also 296x Too Slow.
I discovered my Postgres database had 89 foreign keys but zero indexes on them—turning millisecond queries into 843ms nightmares and nearly killing my alpha launch.

Blank Screens Kill Trust. I Had 31 of Them.
I found 31 blank screens in my SaaS—all because I forgot multi-tenancy isn't just about data access, it's about URL context. Here's how Claude Code helped me fix them all in one night.
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I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2. On Day 67, I Rebuilt It
No. 05AII Knew What Agencies Needed—So I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2
No. 06AII Asked My AI Strategy Agent to Audit Our Landing Page. Here's What Happened
No. 07AISTRAŦUM: The 9-Agent Marketing Application I Built in 75 Days (Solo, While Sick for 10)
No. 08AIThe HTTP/HTTPS Debugging Nightmare: A 24-Hour Journey Through Mixed Content Hell
No. 09AI4 Weeks in: Building a 10-Agent Marketing Platform While Taking Naps
No. 10AISafer Deployments for Solo Devs: How I Used AI to Ship (a Feature Flag Story)
No. 11AIFrom 3 Minutes to 500ms: The Signup Bug That Made No Sense
No. 12AIYour AI Ghostwriter is a Bad Idea. Here's How to Use an AI 'Thought Partner' Instead
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