Two weeks ago, a tech influencer with about 200k followers made a video about our app. He called it a "hidden gem" for freelancers, and the video blew up. By the next morning, we had 15,000 new signups.
I was ecstatic. I thought we had finally hit our breakout moment.
But by 10 AM, our database locked up. Our AWS instance couldn't handle the concurrent API requests. Users were getting 502 Bad Gateway errors when they tried to log in. My co-founder and I spent the entire day frantically upgrading our database tier and scaling our servers.
By the time the site was stable (about 18 hours later), the damage was done. I pulled the analytics this morning:
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