August 10, 2025
Business Lessons from My Engineering Degree
Surprising parallels between electrical engineering and running a startup.
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Peter Kibet Byegon
Full stack engineer. Built SokoSuite to help SMEs run better with ERP, POS, and cloud solutions. Background in Electrical Engineering. Previously at Telkom Kenya and Outliers Tech. Based in Nairobi.
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July 15, 2025
To Hire or Not to Hire: When Does a Solo Founder Need Help?
Thinking through the decision to hire my first employee and what's holding me back.
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Documentation That Actually Gets Used
How we write docs that users read instead of asking us the same questions repeatedly.
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Handling Downtime: When Your App Goes Down at 3 AM
War stories and lessons from production incidents that woke me up in the middle of the night.
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Git Workflow for Solo Developers
How I use Git branches, commits, and releases when there's no team to coordinate with.
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Understanding Customer Churn: Why They Leave and What We Do About It
Analysis of our churn patterns and the strategies we use to keep customers longer.
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Sales for Engineers: What I Learned Selling My Own Product
How a developer learned to sell software without feeling gross about it.
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Multi-Tenancy Architecture: Shared Schema vs Isolated
The architectural decisions behind building a multi-tenant SaaS and why we chose shared schema.
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Year One of SokoSuite: What Worked and What Didn't
Honest reflection on the first 12 months of building a B2B SaaS in Kenya.
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Fighting Feature Creep: Saying No to Good Ideas
How we decide what to build and what to skip when every feature sounds important.
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