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The blockchain gaming market will hit $24.4 B by 2025. Daily active wallets are up 5× since 2023, and Asia now drives a third of users and half the cash (7.4 M dUAW vs. 1.4 M in 2023). Dig deeper, though, and the shine wears off:

Olga Gubanova

August 1, 2025

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When you’re building a Web3 product in 2025, the hardest part isn’t the blockchain integration itself—it’s getting fast answers to questions like: How can we spot, in real time, that a major investor is pulling assets off the platform? Which new users failed KYC or got stuck in compliance?

Olga Gubanova

August 1, 2025

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Over the past twelve months our team has shipped document automation for FinTech and SaaS document automation modules that run in production. We’ve hit fresh snags—API rate limits, data-residency rules, surprise compliance tweaks—and learned how to fix them without busting deadlines or budgets.

Olga Gubanova

August 1, 2025

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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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 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

August 1, 2025

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