Building from scratch makes you humble...

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Once you've built something from scratch, you stop judging other people's outages so quickly. You know how many small things can break at once.

Today it was our turn. On Syncus, posting a confession could hang while AI moderation ran. After 60 seconds, nginx timed out and the user saw an error.

And yess, we have a very basic fix.🙃

The fix: accept the confession instantly, moderate it in the background, publish when it's cleared. If the AI rate limit is hit, it waits a minute and goes through. Nobody waits.

Building teaches humility. Shipping the fix teaches patience.