I've been trying to understand how fellow SAAS builders measure the longer-term impact of a launch.
Upvotes tell you that people noticed your product, but they don't necessarily tell you whether it solved a problem well enough for someone to keep using it. Right?
I'm curious about how you evaluate that gap. Do you focus on returning users, conversations with new customers, paid conversions, or something else?
Especially interested in how you decide what to improve after the initial attention dies down.
We recently learned that getting a clean HTTP 200 response doesn't mean your database actually saved the changes.
In our setup, missing security rules and webhook edge cases caused multiple user updates to fail quietly without leaving a single trace in the logs. We had to change our approach and start reading back saved records or checking affected row counts to verify every write.
