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From Side Project to $10K MRR: Lessons from Building a SaaS

A candid look at the journey of building and growing a successful SaaS product, including the mistakes made, pivots taken, and strategies that worked.

Shahzad Farooq

Dec 17, 2025

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Building Scalable APIs with Laravel: Best Practices for 2025

Learn how to design and build production-ready REST APIs using Laravel 11, covering authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and performance optimization.

Dec 10, 2025

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Real-Time Analytics at Scale: Architecture Case Study

How we built a real-time analytics platform processing millions of events daily using Laravel, Redis, and Queue Workers with zero data loss.

Nov 25, 2025

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