This week reminded me that building software is rarely about writing lots of code.
I added Google Sign-In to LaunchAlly, which immediately made the app feel much more polished. Instead of asking users to create yet another account, they can now sign in with something they already trust.
But at the same time, one seemingly "simple" feature has been fighting back: team invitations.
The email sends.
The invite is created.
Authentication works.
Everything returns HTTP 200.
...and yet the invited user still doesn't end up inside the team.
That's the interesting part of software engineering.
Sometimes you spend an afternoon building a whole feature.
Sometimes you spend a week chasing one missing database insert.
The difference between a side project and a real SaaS isn't writing code—it's refusing to give up when everything looks correct but still doesn't work.
Current LaunchAlly progress:
✅ GitHub deployments
✅ Google Sign-In
✅ Team management
🚧 Team invitations (almost there)
🚧 Stripe subscriptions
🚧 Analyzer V4 with better workflow detection
Once those are finished, I'm planning to shift almost entirely from coding to talking to users, collecting feedback, and improving the product based on real usage.
The hardest bugs usually teach the most.
Back to debugging. 🚀
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