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Seed startups in India raised $478 Mn in H1 2026, up 18% YoY, at a $1 Mn median ticket. A 12-week SaaS MVP has to prove more than a demo. The build plan, the stack costs, and the engineering that survives diligence.
Manu Shukla 
Shopify rebuilt Hydrogen with Vercel as a toolkit that runs on Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit and three more. It is the biggest headless change since launch, and the reason most D2C brands should not replatform onto it this
Manu Shukla 
OpenAI shut Instant Checkout in March 2026, six months after launch, with about a dozen merchants live. Google's UCP kept expanding. Here is how UCP, ACP and AP2 actually stack up, and what to build first.
Manu Shukla 
A timed-out POST can charge a customer twice. Idempotency keys make retries safe. This guide covers the Idempotency-Key header, the IETF draft, server implementation, the race-condition trap, storage and TTL rules
Manu Shukla 
Interop 2026 commits Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla to 20 focus areas. After the 2025 cycle lifted the cross-browser pass rate from 29% to 97%, here is what front-end teams can finally rely on this year
Manu Shukla 
RFC 9457 is the IETF standard for machine-readable HTTP API errors, and it obsoletes RFC 7807. This guide covers the five fields, the application/problem+json media type, extension members, multiple-problem handling
Manu Shukla 
RFC 10008 published June 15, 2026 gives HTTP the QUERY method — safe like GET, body-carrying like POST. First new HTTP method since PATCH in 2010. What it means for APIs.
Aman Mathur 