Today was messy in the best way.
š Prototype is now 90% there. Spent most of the morning polishing UI edges from yesterday's feedbackālots of little tooltip tweaks and color alignment. Amazing how something as tiny as a shadow can make a whole flow feel cheap.
š Supabase auth temporarily turned into The Boss Level of the day. Error logs werenāt helpful, had to roll back a change that borked token refresh across flows. Eventually figured it out: I misunderstood part of Supabase's RLS syntax. Shocking, I know.
š” Midday win: We had a working session with our product advisor. Big takeaway? Focus even narrower. So now instead of ātech teams during onboarding,ā weāre zoning in on 5ā15 person SaaS teams constantly tweaking stuff in the first few weeks of growth. It hurts a bit to drop broader dreams, but this makes us sharper.
š§ Tried the new value prop line in outreach:
āSetup guidance that adapts to your stack.ā
ā¦and it has legs. Got two responses from Indie Hackers who didnāt just say ācoolā but actually asked a follow-up. That counts as a micro win right now.
š Almost lost an hour fixing a nav bug that couldāve destroyed the usability test next week. Better now than live, I guess.
š ļø Backend progress making me cautiously optimistic. Real-time updates between users held up in limited testing. Syncing feels snappy. Supabase, I love you until your docs betray me again.
What I Learned Today:
How to not screw up Supabase Row-Level Security (RLS) early on
- Donāt rely on default policies. Theyāre too open.
- Create a
current_user_id()Postgres functionāsuper useful for RLS filters. - Write policies per table, not one-size-fits-all.
- Test your policies using Supabaseās Auth UI as the actual user, not just via SQL.
- Keep a staging mode with logging enabled so you can see why a query was denied (lifesaver).
š® Tomorrow, we prep for usability tests. Iām weirdly excited. Mostly because users might finally validate whether what weāre building actually matters.
Now off to nervously refresh my inbox 10 more times.
