Author
Andrius Lukminas
67 articles published
Platform news
Test it with us before we ask anyone to pay
We are not ready to sell Boottify yet — we are ready to be tested. We are looking for a few dev teams or solo developers to run something real on the platform, free, and tell us where it breaks.
about 1 month ago4 min
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Architecture
One certificate, no copies
Every one of our domains was eighteen days from serving an expired certificate while the renewed one sat unused. The renewal worked; the verification could only see its own output.
about 1 month ago4 min
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Architecture
The price on the page
Our pricing page advertised $79. Stripe charged €79. Both numbers were 79, so nobody noticed — and a price turned out to live in three places at once.
about 1 month ago4 min
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Bug Fixes
A check that cannot fail is not a check
Three of our checks reported success while the thing they checked was broken — including one satisfied by a log line, which was hiding a real cross-customer data leak.
about 1 month ago4 min
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Architecture
Your keys, your instance
A hosting platform should never put its own credentials inside your application, and never make you guess which ones yours needs. We got the first half right and the second half wrong.
about 1 month ago3 min
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Architecture
The discount you could not earn
Clients earn a real discount by taking part in their project. We measured what was actually reachable and got 5%. Six of sixteen rewards could only be earned by our own staff.
about 1 month ago4 min
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Bug Fixes
Why the beta is delayed: a component that returned nothing
We found a confirmation dialog whose entire body was `return null`, imported by 118 files. Every destructive control in the platform silently did nothing — and every automated check we had passed.
about 1 month ago2 min
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Product
What's Next for Boottify — Roadmap Q3 2026
What's coming: real-time WebSocket streaming for deployments, CRM analytics dashboards, multi-tenant improvements, and the trading bot project.
5 months ago4 min
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Engineering
Boottify's Testing Philosophy — TDD, Playwright, and Systematic Debugging
How we test at Boottify: TDD workflow, Playwright for E2E, 4-phase systematic debugging, and the RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle enforced at every commit.
5 months ago3 min
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Engineering
TypeScript at Scale — 248K Lines Without a Single 'any'
Boottify's TypeScript codebase: 248,564 lines, 1,677 files, zero 'any' types, 165 Zod validation files, and 516 safeParse() calls. How we maintain strict mode at scale.
5 months ago4 min
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Product
Agencies CRM Deep Dive — Pipeline, Analytics, and Automation
A technical walkthrough of the Agencies CRM: 20+ API routes, 7 database tables, Kanban pipeline, ML duplicate detection, email sequences, and analytics.
5 months ago4 min
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Engineering
Authentication at Boottify — Lucia v3, OAuth, 2FA, and Session Guards
How Boottify's auth works: Lucia v3 sessions, Google/GitHub OAuth via Arctic, TOTP 2FA with backup codes, 15-minute idle timeouts, and role-based access.
5 months ago4 min
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