When building a digital product, one of the first infrastructure choices you’ll face is authentication. Do you use a paid identity provider like ClerkAuth, or should you roll your own with tools like Better Auth? The answer depends on your team’s priorities, timeline, and scale. Let’s break down the trade-offs.…

In the earliest days of building a startup, speed is everything. But if you invest in the wrong speed—rushing features out without thinking about how to scale—you set yourself up for a future of technical headaches, burned-out teams, and opportunity cost that quietly becomes existential. At Devblock, we’ve helped startups…

Startups today are blitzing through ideas at lightning speed. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned working hands-on with founders and product teams, it’s this: rapid prototyping is only an advantage if you’re able to avoid the swirl of constant rework. The difference between a startup that consistently ships and…