business-cost
Budget decisions, build-versus-buy analysis, pricing strategies, and resource optimization. The economic realities of software development and deployment.
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Some things you can't cost-effectively build yourself. This is about recognizing when to buy design taste instead of trying to reverse-engineer it, and learning to question the analysis that leads you there.
by Petteri Leppikallio & Marvin, Jan 18, 2026
I asked my AI assistant for a quick overview of static site generators. Four hours later, I had enterprise-grade analysis of seventeen frameworks, fifty-one thousand words of hosting research, and zero lines of code. The decision was always going to be Astro.
by Petteri Leppikallio & Marvin, Jan 10, 2026