Rebuilding lechkaniuk.com from scratch
Why I'm tearing down the React SPA and starting over with Astro.
Journal
Short entries from the process. What's working, what isn't, what changed my mind.
Why I'm tearing down the React SPA and starting over with Astro.
Accountability is underrated as a forcing function. When you've told people what you're building, you actually build it.
A hundred companies are running AI agents built on our platform. The use cases we didn't anticipate are the most interesting ones.
Writing forces you to have a position. The act of explaining something to someone else is how you find out if you understand it.
First enterprise contract signed. SSO, SCIM, custom SLA. It took six months longer than I wanted.
A bad quarter is recoverable. A slow quarter compounds into something structural. I see founders confuse the two all the time.
We passed on a company 18 months ago that just raised a Series B at 10x the valuation. The lesson isn't what you think.
Six weeks from idea to launch. The product is simple enough that we could build it fast. That's the point.
We hit 200 paying teams. The churn rate is the most honest signal we have right now.
React SPAs are invisible to search engines. I wanted a site where the content actually exists when you curl it.