Day 6: Spent the day debugging SSO — the boring stuff that actually matters

Day 6 of building TopStartNow in public.

Didn't ship anything visible today. Spent the whole day on one bug:

Customer buys hosting → should click "Open Control Panel" → auto-login to DirectAdmin without typing a password.

Instead they got a login form. Every time.

Root cause after 4 hours: the session cookie from DirectAdmin's Evolution skin uses a different name than what our code expected. Three lines of code. Four hours of debugging.

This is the stuff nobody sees in a launch announcement. But it's the difference between "I bought hosting and it works" and "I bought hosting and now I'm confused."

Fixed. Deployed. Moving on.

12 days to PH launch. The list of invisible bugs is getting shorter.

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