The author, Meysam Azad, created Awesome Directories, a curated directory aggregator for SaaS product launches, after spending 15 hours searching through outdated resources. The platform features over 388 verified directories, rea...
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Technical engineer with 8 years of DevOps/SRE experience, now finding problems worth solving. He documents customer discovery, product validation, and building with production-grade discipline. He is a technical founder building bootstrapped SaaS products.
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