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Building ZyVOP in Public
A running log of the real decisions behind ZyVOP — hosting migrations, stack choices, costs, and the mistakes that came with them. No polish, just what happened and what it cost.
4 articles Created Aug 2026
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Why I Moved ZyVOP From Vercel to a VPS With Docker and Cloudflare Tunnel
Vercel was the obvious choice when I launched ZyVOP — until edge function timeouts started silently killing cross-posts. I moved the entire platform to a $8/month VPS using Docker and Cloudflare Tunnel in under 2 hours. Here's the exact setup, what broke, and the Cloudflare cache gotcha nobody warns you about.
Sanju Singh Aug 7 6 min read
Why I Built a Developer Platform Instead of Just Using Dev.to
I used to publish everything on Dev.to. It worked, but I eventually realized I was building my content on someone else's platform. So I built ZyVOP—a developer publishing platform where I can keep the original article, distribute it to other platforms, and build the analytics and tools around it myself.
Sanju Singh Aug 10 4 min read
The Real Cost of Running a Developer Platform
Most "cost of running my SaaS" posts hide the free tiers and skip the disasters. Here's every line item behind ZyVOP — including the Vercel timeout that was one slow API response away from silently killing cross-posts.
Sanju Singh Aug 11 5 min read
How ZyVOP's Syndication Engine Works: Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium, and Bluesky
Cross-posting sounds simple until you try to build it. Every platform has different APIs, different formats, different quirks, and different failure modes. Here's the complete technical breakdown of how ZyVOP's syndication engine works under the hood.
Sanju Singh Aug 12 5 min read
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CreatedAug 2026
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