Add payments without trusting the checkout redirect
A provider-neutral checklist for hosted checkout, verified payment events, subscription states, refunds, and duplicate-safe fulfillment.
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Business basics to decide before taking payment
A checklist of operating questions for a small independent product, with explicit reminders that legal and tax requirements depend on location.
Make transactional email dependable
Separate essential product messages from marketing, set up sender authentication, and build retries, templates, and delivery visibility.
Move slow work into reliable background jobs
Decide what belongs in a worker, then make jobs idempotent, bounded, observable, and safe to retry after partial failure.
Operating a small product without losing the plot
A compact operating rhythm for support, reliability, maintenance, and learning that fits a solo builder or small team.
Run a useful customer-support loop as a solo builder
Give customers a dependable way to get help, resolve issues safely, and turn repeated support requests into product improvements without building a call center.