Last week I was knee-deep in building the backend for my project. I had just wrapped up the user endpoints and was ready to tackle posts. That’s when I made a classic mistake - I jumped straight into coding without doing any proper database modeling or planning. Here’s what I initially threw together: type User struct { gorm.Model UserTag string `json:"user_tag" gorm:"unique;not null;size:50"` Name string `json:"name"` Password string `json:"-" gorm:"not null"` Email string `json:"email" ...| jitesh117.github.io