May 26 · 8 min read · Firebase is the go-to Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) for many web developers: fast to set up, feature-rich, and great for launching MVPs. But speed without security leads to leaks, exposed data, and hard
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May 8 · 14 min read · The day your mobile app crosses borders, every shortcut you took with strings comes back as a bug report. A button that reads "Save" is fine in English, becomes "Speichern" in German (overflowing your
Join discussionApr 23 · 3 min read · I'm not a developer. I spent eight months looking for a technical co-founder for a marketplace idea and got nowhere. Last month I stopped looking and shipped the thing myself. Posting the details beca
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Apr 16 · 10 min read · Most Shopify search bars only understand keywords. A customer looking for "that kind of minimalist wooden shelf" gets a page full of irrelevant results or nothing at all. They had a clear picture in their head, but the search bar couldn't understand ...
Join discussionApr 12 · 5 min read · Your user types "vintage wooden chair with armrests" into a search bar. Your app returns photos of vintage wooden chairs with armrests from a database of 100,000 product images. None of those images were tagged with those words. Nobody manually label...
Join discussionApr 12 · 7 min read · The moment your app accepts user-uploaded images, you have a content moderation problem. It doesn't matter if you're building a social platform, a dating app, a marketplace, or a SaaS with profile photos. Someone will upload something they shouldn't....
Join discussionApr 12 · 6 min read · If you've ever tried to build image search from scratch, you know the pain. You start reading about CLIP embeddings, spin up a vector database, provision GPU instances for inference, and suddenly a "simple" feature has become a three-month infrastruc...
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