Forking a SaaS Codebase: What to Reuse, What to Delete, and What Not to Abstract
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Forking a production SaaS is deceptively easy. The repository copies cleanly, the application starts, and the existing infrastructure still works. Then the inherited assumptions begin to show up. A route still describes the old product. An email contains the old identity. A reusable-looking compone…
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Forking a SaaS Codebase: What to Reuse, What to Delete, and What Not to Abstract