- Solo developer launched Peakd, a community-powered ranking platform for products and services, at 2am UK time.
- Site received 500 unique visitors within an hour, causing server collapse due to lack of caching and database connection pool exhaustion.
- Fixed issues live by implementing Redis caching, using Incremental Static Regeneration, and upgrading server capacity.
- Key lessons included caching for anonymous users, the inability to simulate production traffic locally, and the importance of launch timing.