Most organizations don’t fail because of bad technology. They fail because of unclear product strategy long before a single engineer writes a line of code. In a rapidly shifting digital economy, the gap between a coherent strategy and actual delivery determines whether a platform becomes a scalable asset, or an…

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…