Archives: Case Studies

Sep 12, 2026

I migrated the most used screen of a product I ran for ten years, in nine batches, with no downtime and no maintenance window. Here is why I refused the single cutover, the abstraction I could only see halfway through, and the blind spot my own migration plan was structurally unable to catch.

Aug 04, 2026

I ran one product's codebase for ten years and decided not to migrate it to a framework. That call saved roughly a year of frozen feature work and cost me things I did not see at the time. Here is the architecture I built instead, the score I invented to track it, and the three decisions I would make differently.

Jun 26, 2026

A founder's older product still makes money and is scary to touch. Rewrite or keep patching? Neither. Here is how I modernized a 100K-user SaaS in place, from a 4.5 to an 8.0, while it never went dark.

Feb 21, 2026

The Problem: “The App Feels Slow” Is Not a Diagnosis Every SaaS founder eventually hears this sentence: “The application feels slow.” In our case, this was a PHP-based SaaS application hosted on a RunCloud-managed server.Pages loaded, features worked, but latency was noticeable — especially on DB-heavy screens. At this stage, many teams do one of […]

Jun 22, 2025

Discover how to fix missing compiled assets in Laravel CI/CD deployments. This real-world case study walks through debugging Bitbucket Pipelines, container isolation issues, and rsync configuration problems that caused assets to disappear between build and production.

Jun 05, 2025

Learn how to replace repeating HTML structures in PHP without relying on heavy DOM libraries. This real-world case study shows how we tackled dynamic content manipulation using regex and templating, keeping the markup clean and the solution fast — ideal for SaaS apps, landing page engines, or custom platforms.