The honeymoon phase of every MVP You know the feeling: while you’re building an MVP, everything flies. A couple of users, an empty database, a fast server. The user clicks a button, the frontend sends a request, the backend responds, and the UI updates. It all feels predictable and straightforward. At that stage, it’s easy to believe the architecture will scale just fine. Queries are fast, tables are small, and the user flows are simple. Every form saves in a split second. Every list opens right away. Then the product grows up. Lists get longer, filters get more complex, analytics shows up, table relationships get messier, and the number of users keeps climbing. We ran into that while building Finsight . In products like this, there are a lot of reads: transactions, categories, filters, totals, month views, quick edits. If every screen has to wait for the server, the whole product starts to feel heavier. Before long, the user is spending more time staring at loaders than actually using the app.…