Build vs Buy an Ordering Platform: Pros and Cons
What each option really costs past year one, which parts are cheap to build and which are not, and the four questions that decide it.
What we learned shipping multi-tenant SaaS, integrations and MVPs — written for the engineers who have to maintain them.
What each option really costs past year one, which parts are cheap to build and which are not, and the four questions that decide it.
Operating two multi-tenant platforms changes how a studio builds: the second customer, upgrade paths, on-call, and what is actually worth alerting on.
Webhooks that never fire, statuses that do not map, menus that drift: what two-way POS integration with Clover, Square and Toast actually involves.
The scope that fits a four-to-six-week MVP, the parts that never get cut, and why auth, payments, admin and deploys eat most of the budget.
Shared schema, schema-per-tenant or database-per-tenant — where each model breaks, what it costs to migrate later, and how to decide before you build.
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