The notes I would have wanted at fifteen.
Long form pieces on shipping production systems, scaling SaaS, hiring engineers, AI integration, and the engineering decisions behind Yashveer Labs.
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- Business Automation and Ops
The Internal CRM Build: When It Pays Off
The specific business conditions where building a custom CRM beats buying Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive -- and the conditions where it does not.
12 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
The Finance Stack for a SaaS Business
The tools and integrations a SaaS business needs to manage revenue recognition, subscriptions, taxes, and reporting without building a finance team too early.
12 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
The Founder Dashboard: Metrics That Matter
The 8 metrics every founder should track weekly -- and why most founder dashboards are full of vanity numbers that tell you nothing actionable.
12 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
The Customer Onboarding Automation Map
The complete automation map for SaaS customer onboarding: from signup to activation, with the specific triggers, tools, and failure modes for each step.
12 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
Workflow Automation for SaaS: A Founder's Guide
Working notes on workflow automation for saas: a founder's guide. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on business automation and ops from someone who has shipped the work.
11 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
Zapier vs Make vs n8n vs Custom in 2026
Working notes on zapier vs make vs n8n vs custom in 2026. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on business automation and ops from someone who has shipped the work.
12 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
The Internal Tooling Build vs Buy Question
A framework for deciding when to build internal tools vs. buy them -- and the hidden cost of building tools that look simple but require ongoing maintenance.
12 min read
- Business Automation and Ops
The Business Automation Map: Where Founders Lose Hours
The specific operational tasks that founders spend hours on that can be automated in days. A map of the highest-ROI automation targets for a bootstrapped SaaS founder.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Founder Who Tried to Hire AI Out of a Hole
A postmortem on the pattern of founders using AI tools to avoid confronting the real problems -- and why AI makes bad decisions faster, not better.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Engineer Who Left a Year of Bug Fixes Behind
A postmortem on the silent damage an engineer carries when they leave without handing off what they know. What actually gets lost, why bus factor kills quietly, and how to build teams that survive a departure.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Vendor Outage That Tested Your Disaster Plan
A postmortem on a third-party vendor failure that exposed a startup's missing disaster recovery plan. What broke, who owned nothing, and how the business relationship with customers changed permanently.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Customer Data Leak That Tested Everything
A postmortem on a customer data leak: what happened, how the team responded, and what it actually takes to survive one with the business intact.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Wrong Tech Stack Decision That Compounded for Three Years
A postmortem on a technology choice made at the beginning of a startup that became increasingly expensive to live with. What the team optimized for, what they should have optimized for, and how long the cost kept compounding.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Hire That Almost Broke the Team
A postmortem on hiring a technically strong engineer who damaged team culture -- what the warning signs were and what the recovery required.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Side Project That Became the Main Project (and the Reverse)
Two stories that look opposite and are actually the same. The thing you built on the side took off and ate your main thing. The main thing you built faded and the side thing carries you. Both are about paying attention to what is working.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Founder Coding Habit That Killed Velocity
The specific ways that founders who code in their own product slow the engineering team down -- and the discipline required to stop doing it.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Open Source Maintainer Who Burned Out
A postmortem on open source maintainer burnout: what builds to it, why the community dynamic makes it worse, and what actually helps before the maintainer walks away from the project.
11 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Acquisition That Was Worse Than Death
A postmortem on startup acquisitions that destroy more than they save. What founders get wrong about exit, and what the engineering team experiences after.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Layoff That Ended the Founder Engineer Relationship
Layoffs are sometimes necessary. How founders handle them determines whether the remaining engineers stay -- and whether the company survives.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Reorg That Broke the Engineering Org
Working notes on the reorg that broke the engineering org. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on startup failure postmortems and fear from someone who has shipped the work.
11 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Departure That Took Half the Knowledge With It
A postmortem on what happens when a key engineer leaves and takes the system's undocumented knowledge with them, and how to prevent it.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Engineer Who Wrote Off the Codebase: A Postmortem
A postmortem on the moment an engineer decides the codebase is unsalvageable. What leads to that conclusion, when they are right, when they are wrong, and what happens to the company when the decision is made unilaterally.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Refactor That Never Ended
Working notes on the refactor that never ended. Written for founders, engineers, and operators who want a clear read on startup failure postmortems and fear from someone who has shipped the work.
12 min read
- Startup Failure Postmortems and Fear
The Performance Regression That Lost the Largest Customer
A postmortem on the performance regression that goes undetected in CI, surfaces in production, and hits the largest customer first. What fails in the detection process, what the customer experience looks like, and what it actually takes to prevent it.
13 min read
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The Labs folder has the experiments themselves. The Systems folder has the stack and architecture. The Journey folder has the timeline. Pick whichever pulls you.