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SaaS & Product 15 posts

26 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Pricing AI Features in SaaS: Tokens, Credits, or Flat Fee? AI features run 50–60% gross margin against classic SaaS at 80–90%, so flat-fee pricing quietly loses money on power users. A decision matrix across flat, credits, hybrid and usage pricing. → 21 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Laravel SaaS Starter Kits: Buy, Build, or Strip One Down? An evaluation rubric for 2026 starter kits (auth, teams, billing, Filament panels included) versus a curated personal boilerplate: what a kit saves in week one and what it costs in month six... → 18 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product How Long a SaaS MVP Really Takes in Laravel (With Cost Math) A week-by-week breakdown of a real MVP scope — auth, billing, one core workflow, admin, deploy — with hour estimates, the features that always blow the timeline, and what to cut first. Posit... → 15 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Laravel Cashier and Stripe for B2B SaaS: Billing, VAT, Seats The unglamorous 20% that consumes 80% of billing time: EU/Nordic VAT and reverse charge, per-seat proration, failed-payment dunning, and invoices Finnish accountants accept. A build order an... → 12 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Modular Monolith in Laravel: SaaS Scale Without Microservices A counter to the microservices reflex small SaaS teams have: module boundaries via domain folders, contracts, and events inside one deployable, plus the three concrete signals that justify e... → 09 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Laravel vs Next.js for SaaS: When PHP Is the Faster Bet An honest cost comparison: Cashier, Horizon, Sanctum, and Pennant out of the box versus assembling 8-12 npm packages — roughly 2-3 weeks vs 4-6 weeks to a billing-ready MVP — and the cases w... → 06 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Single Database vs Database-per-Tenant for Your Laravel SaaS A decision guide for founders, not a package tutorial: cost, migration pain, and the GDPR/data-residency questions Nordic and EU enterprise buyers actually ask in procurement. Advocates the... → 04 Jun 2026 SaaS & Product Build vs Buy Software in 2026: AI Changed the Math Both Ways AI-assisted development made custom software dramatically cheaper to build — and SaaS products better at the same time. Here is the framework I use with clients to decide which way to go. → 27 May 2026 SaaS & Product What an MVP Really Costs in 2026: Numbers From Real Projects Quotes for the same MVP idea range from €15k to €150k — and most of them are honest. The scope tiers, the AI surcharge and the hidden 20–35% that explain the spread. → 28 Jan 2026 SaaS & Product Fixed Price vs Time and Materials: Which Protects You as a Client A developer explains the incentives behind each model — why fixed price inflates quotes with risk padding and punishes scope learning, when T&M with a capped milestone structure gives client... → 22 Jan 2026 SaaS & Product How to Write a Software Project Brief That Gets Accurate Quotes From the receiving end: the missing details that make quotes vary 5x (users and roles, integrations, data migration, non-functional requirements), a copy-paste brief structure, and red flags... → 19 Jan 2026 SaaS & Product The Real Cost of Running a SaaS After Launch: Year-One Numbers Founders budget the build and forget year one: hosting, monitoring, backups, dependency updates, support load, LLM inference that scales with users, and EU compliance overhead — itemised wit... →