SOC 2 Preparation for Small SaaS: What the Audit Actually Requires
SOC 2 compliance roadmap for small SaaS startups: Trust Service Criteria, Type I vs Type II audits, required evidence, realistic costs, and timelines.
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SOC 2 compliance roadmap for small SaaS startups: Trust Service Criteria, Type I vs Type II audits, required evidence, realistic costs, and timelines.

An honest guide to the transition from software developer to technical founder, covering the identity shift, what skills transfer and which don't, finding your first customers, the most common early mistakes, managing the emotional weight of building a company, and how to decide if the path is right for you.

The gap between signup and first value is where most SaaS trials fail. This guide covers onboarding flow design, product tours, progress tracking, behavioral triggers, and the metrics that tell you whether onboarding is working.

I share my practical guide to implementing database sharding for growing SaaS applications, covering PostgreSQL strategies for data distribution, query routing, and migration.