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My wife and I run a small West African and Caribbean grocery and catering business in Tennessee. I'm a cloud engineer by day, and I got frustrated enough with our bookkeeping software that I started building my own. It began as something just for us. Now that I'm preparing it for other people to use, a few lessons so far: Your own data is forgiving. Someone else's isn't. I used to push changes straight to production because the only books in there were ours. Now everything goes through a staging environment with its own database first, and I audited every table to make sure one account can never see another's data. Documentation is part of the product. I wrote a user manual mostly for myself, then realized that for something as sensitive as your books, people need to trust it before they'll move their data over. Good help docs do a lot of that work. For those of you who went from "built it for myself" to real users, what was the biggest shift for you? And how did you find your first few paying customers?   submitted by   /u/devopspupo [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/20 02:42:37