Today marks a year since my first commit into git repository named "i18n-proxy". The name itself highlights the approach I’m taking with this project: I didn’t spend time contemplating with a name (I usually do). I just named the thing and moved forward.
Multify is my first real experience of doing things that don’t scale: manual onboarding, minimal technical complexity at first and iterating on it later.
Every engineer is familiar with temptation to do things right the first time. Experience with my other projects showed that it’s futile. Oh, and also customers who require features and stability change to equation a little.
One of the most ridiculous things that I did that don't scale is that I didn’t build a dashboard. You know, every SaaS needs a dashboard. Turns out not quite.
In the first year dashboard would literally drag me down and dilute focus, increase complexity. Instead I chose to pursue other things: marketing, core features and stability (in reverse order).
Only now when the foundation is solid, all infrastructural components are in place so that my clients' sites don't go down — now I can start with the dashboard. Looks like it’s time to do things that scale.