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OCR hit healthcare orgs with $9.9 million in HIPAA fines last year—more than double 2023—and every case traced back to an EHR-integration shortcut. Founder Rule for EHR Integration: Buy speed, not pipes.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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Launching an app? Cool. Launching one that doesn’t get flagged, fined, or kicked out of the App Store like a naughty child at a five-star restaurant? Even cooler. Here’s the thing: app stores, regulators, and privacy-savvy users all expect your mobile app to play by the rules right from the get-go…meaning from day one.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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Adding new languages or currencies isn’t a magic growth button—it’s a risk zone where SaaS teams are more likely to lose money than make it. From our launches and internal data across European SaaS, adding just one language increases annual support costs by at least 10–15%.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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When fintech startup Spendesk built their MVP, Algolia looked ideal: a quick-to-integrate SDK, lightning-fast search under 50 ms, and setup measured in minutes, not hours. Initially, this worked great. But as traffic grew, the cost became unsustainable—Algolia alone began to cost more monthly than their entire app infrastructure combined.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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Last quarter, a promising HealthTech startup walked into an investor meeting beaming with charts—only to watch the deal collapse minutes later. Hackers had slipped through an under-secured API the night before, stealing 5,800 patient records. Overnight, the company’s valuation—and its runway—evaporated.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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You’ve found a team you like, Slack is buzzing, prototypes look promising. Then someone sends over a forty-page PDF titled “Software Development Agreement.” Most founders skim, sign, and get back to building. Six weeks later they discover the agency owns the source code and every “tiny tweak” costs extra. Here’s what that paper is really for:

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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In 1986, NASA engineer Roger Boisjoly warned that O-ring seals on the Challenger shuttle might fail in cold weather. The mission went ahead anyway. It wasn’t a technical failure — it was a planning failure. More precisely: it was confidence without information.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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If you’re building a real product, expect the true cost of a no-code MVP to land somewhere between $2,000 (if you’re frugal and doing it all yourself) and $30,000+ (if you’re hiring help and want polish).

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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Launching your app isn’t the finish line — it’s the start of the next bill. Bug fixes, updates, server costs — they don’t stop once you hit “go live.” In fact, year one can eat up 50% of your original dev budget. Want to stay ahead of those creeping costs? Let’s break down what app maintenance really costs in 2025.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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On 11 Mar 2025, fintech app Chocolate Finance froze instant withdrawals for 60 000 users. Overnight payouts became 3–10 business days; MAS got involved. The cause wasn’t bad code—it was under‑budgeted infra, QA, and compliance. In Singapore regulatory mistakes cost more than code: AML/PDPA fines jumped 22 % in 2024.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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Budgets implode when founders ignore calendars and creeping costs. Let’s map the real dev timeline, reveal the fees nobody quotes, and show where Sydney/Melbourne rates bite hardest.In October 2024, Josh Howland, founder of Sydney-based fintech startup SplitStack, kicked off app development with a “rock-solid” plan: MVP in 4 months, A$120K total budget.

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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So, you want to ship an app north of the 49th? Strap in, eh. Building digital in Canada is a different beast. Between Toronto’s “Silicon Valley lite” pricing and Montreal’s creative hustle, your budget can go offside faster than a Leafs playoff run.Here’s the no-bull reality:

Olga Gubanova

July 10, 2025

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