22 August 2026
5 min read
What a redesign actually costs
The design fee is the small number. Content, migration and QA are where budgets go.
Choosing a stack for your first product
31 August 2026
6 min read
Mahammad Hakimov
The stack matters far less than the team that maintains it. Here is how we actually decide.
Founders often open the conversation with a framework name. We usually start somewhere else: who will maintain this in eighteen months, and what can they hire for.
A boring, well-documented stack with a large local hiring pool beats a fashionable one almost every time. The cost of a rewrite is rarely the code — it is the months of context that leave with the last developer.
Our default is Laravel with a server-rendered front end, because it keeps the surface area small and the hosting cheap. We move away from that default only when the product genuinely needs real-time state or an offline-first mobile client.
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13 August 2026
4 min read
Core Web Vitals without the hype
Three metrics, a handful of fixes, and the ones that are rarely worth chasing.