Hello, World

Welcome to the StackSloth blog. We build, own, and operate focused SaaS products — and starting today, we're going to write about it.

Why bother writing

Most company blogs turn into marketing sludge within six months. We'd rather not. This blog exists for three reasons:

1. To think in public — writing is how we pressure-test ideas before they become code.
2. To share what works — and what doesn't. There's no shortage of confident "best practice" posts; we're more interested in the honest ones.
3. To be findable — if you're searching for how to do something we've already figured out, we want our notes to be useful.

What you'll find here

Expect pieces on product work, architecture decisions we actually made (and sometimes regretted), how we're running a lean software business, and occasional deep dives into tools we rely on.

A small code example

Here's the kind of thing that might show up — real code, real context:

export async function getAllPosts(): Promise<Post[]> {
  const posts = await readAllPostFiles();
  return posts
    .filter(isPublished)
    .sort((a, b) => (a.date < b.date ? 1 : -1));
}

Nothing clever. Just the function that renders this very page.

A note on cadence

We'd rather post one solid piece a month than four thin ones a week.

You can expect roughly that rhythm. If you want to know when something new goes up, the best option right now is to bookmark this page — we'll add an RSS feed before too long.

That's the intro. Thanks for reading, and see you in the next one.

— Dan