Simone Montalto @simonemontalto.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Most conversations about scaling focus on users. More traffic, more data, more load. But many indie apps do not scale in users. They scale in time. 100
Simone Montalto @simonemontalto.bsky.social · 17/12/2025An app used by the same people for five or six years faces a completely different kind of pressure. Data accumulates. Workflows evolve. Assumptions made at the beginning slowly stop being true. 100
Simone Montalto @simonemontalto.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The first thing that breaks is usually not performance. It is meaning. Fields that once had a clear purpose become overloaded. States multiply. A value that used to mean one thing now means three, depending on context. 100