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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.
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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.

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.

I thought adding org_id to every table meant bulletproof multi-tenancy. Then my security audit revealed agencies were writing to SME tables—not through a bug, but by design.

After 20 years in agencies, I knew multi-tenant architecture couldn't wait—so on Day 2, with just one working AI agent, I tripled my dev complexity to avoid a future rewrite.