Pat Spizzo
Software engineer turned indie app developer, sharing the journey.
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Security for Solo Devs: The 80/20 That Actually Matters
Have you ever stared at a security checklist for your new web application and thought, "I'll never get finished if I try to do all this"? Chances are, you are right, you will not. But there is good news: you do not have to do all of it!
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The Simple CI/CD Setup Every Indie Dev Should Use
I'm going to give you some advice that might feel wrong: build your indie app with a dumb simple CI/CD pipeline. No matrix builds. No staged rollouts. No Kubernetes. Just push to main, run tests, and deploy.
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6 min read
5 Product Management Principles Every Solo Developer Needs To Know
As a solo developer, you're not just writing code, you're wearing every hat in the company. And one of the most important (and most overlooked) is product manager. Here are five principles that will help you think like a PM while building your product.
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After 20 years in the corporate engineering world, I’m now building in public and helping others do the same.
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