Wash-Dry-Fold POS reports zero downtime for 3.5 years on Bubble enterprise
Brian Henderson · Episode 844 | Building a $1M+ ARR SaaS for Laundromats · Aug 4, 2026 · at 30:47
Brian Henderson, co-founder of laundromat software Wash-Dry-Fold POS, discusses the reliability and infrastructure costs of scaling a production SaaS application on the no-code platform Bubble.
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“And then it was March of twenty-twenty-three when we switched over to their dedicated server hosting enterprise level of subscription, and the advantage of doing that is, you know, more stability. It does cost more, but our, you know, our app hasn't been down for, what, three and a half years now, like ever, and so it's, so that's nice, and somebody else is doing all the watching and safeguarding of that to make sure that that stays where it's supposed to be.”
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