What This Blog Is About (And Why You Might Care)

Hey 👋

If you're here, you probably found this site through a deployment guide or maybe you're just curious what we write about. Either way, welcome.

This blog exists because when building SaaS products, we kept running into the same frustrations:

• Deployment shouldn't cost $500/month for a product with 10 users
• Most tutorials assume you're either a complete beginner or you already know everything
• A lot of "production-ready" advice is overkill for bootstrapped projects
• The space between "hello world" and "enterprise architecture" is weirdly empty

So we're writing the stuff we wish we'd read a few years ago. Practical, no-nonsense posts about building and shipping web apps without needing venture funding or a DevOps team.

What You'll Find Here

We write about whatever we're working on or whatever problem we just solved. The main topics:

Cheap (But Good) Deployments

Hetzner + Docker, Cloudflare Workers, self-hosting on VPS — no need to pay AWS/Vercel prices if you don't have to. You can run a solid SaaS on $10-50/month if you know what you're doing. We'll show you how.

Docker Swarm gets ignored by a lot of people in favor of Kubernetes, but for small-to-medium projects, it's perfect. Simple, cheap, scales when you need it to. We use it for client projects.

Nuxt & Vue

Our frontend framework of choice. Nuxt 4 is really good — server-side rendering, file-based routing, great developer experience. We'll write about building modules, patterns we use, weird gotchas we've found.

Vue 3 Composition API is the way to go. If you're still on Options API or considering React, we might convince you otherwise. Or not. Use what works.

Django

Sometimes you need a real backend framework, not just serverless functions. Django is boring in the best way. It works, it's been around forever, and it has answers for basically everything.

Posts will cover integrating Django with modern frontends, REST APIs, background tasks, deployment strategies. Probably some multi-tenancy stuff too since that comes up a lot.

Architecting Stuff That Scales (But Doesn't Have To Yet)

The trick is building something that works now but doesn't need a full rewrite when you get your first 1,000 users. Code organization, database design, when to optimize and when not to.

Not "best practices" — just what actually works based on shipping real products. Sometimes the "right" architecture is the one you can ship this week.

Building SaaS for Founders

You don't need to be a senior engineer to build a SaaS product. You need to understand enough to make smart decisions and avoid costly mistakes.

Authentication, payments, email, background jobs, multi-tenancy — the boring infrastructure stuff that every SaaS needs. We'll show you how to set it up without overthinking it.

Building Nuxt Modules

Nuxt's module system is really powerful but also weirdly underdocumented. We've built modules for client projects and there's always some gotcha that takes a few hours (and sometimes days) to figure out.

Posts will cover module patterns, how to structure reusable features, auto-imports, build-time vs runtime, that sort of thing.

Privacy-First Web Development

Most people have no idea how much they're being tracked. FB pixel tracks you across every site that uses it. Email tracking pixels tell senders when you opened their email. AWS SES logs every email open. Cookies follow you everywhere.

We'll write about the privacy implications of third-party services, how tracking actually works, and how to build landing pages that don't need cookie consent banners at all (because they don't use optional cookies). The landing pages we build work perfectly fine without FB pixel, Google Analytics, or any tracking — but if you need those, we have a consent solution that only loads scripts after explicit user consent.

What This Blog Is Not

• Not "enterprise architecture patterns" — if you have 500 engineers, you don't need our advice
• Not framework wars — use what you know, ship something
• Not "monetize your blog" or "7 ways to grow your audience" — this isn't that kind of blog

Who We Are

We're a web dev agency that builds landing pages, MVPs, browser extensions, that sort of thing. Mostly for SaaS founders who need something built fast and don't want to hire a full team.

We're based in Europe, which explains the Hetzner obsession. Their VPS prices are stupid cheap compared to US hosting, and they work great if you're not serving exclusively US traffic. If you're in Europe, you should host most of your backend in the EU to avoid GDPR headaches anyway.

What's Next

We've got a backlog of posts we want to write:

• Deploying Nuxt to Cloudflare Workers — already published, check it out if you haven't
• Docker Swarm for SaaS apps — multi-node setup, zero-downtime deploys, secrets management
• Building a multi-tenant SaaS backend — database design, isolation strategies, what actually matters
• Nuxt module development — creating reusable features, auto-imports, best practices
• Django + Nuxt integration — REST APIs, authentication, where to split frontend/backend logic
• Cheap monitoring and logging — you don't need Datadog, we're building our own solution for this
• How FB pixel actually tracks you — across every site that uses it, and why you might not need it
• Email tracking explained — tracking pixels, SES open tracking, and how to avoid being tracked
• Building landing pages without cookie consent — when you actually need it vs when you don't
• Privacy-focused analytics — Umami (self-hosted or cloud), Fathom, and other privacy-first options that don't violate privacy

Posts get published as we write them. No schedule, no content calendar. Just whenever we've got something worth sharing.

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If you've got questions or you're stuck on something, feel free to reach out.

Alright, that's enough intro. Let's build some stuff.