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Notes on building SaaS and marketplaces, page 6

Long-form, technical writing on the decisions behind SaaS platforms and two-sided marketplaces: architecture, payments, trust and the parts that are expensive to get wrong.

Frontend · 7 min read

React 19 in 2026: server components, actions, and the new mental model

React 19 is the first version where server components stop feeling experimental. Actions replace most of the useState plus useEffect plus fetch wrapper layer. The new mental model is different enough that teams underestimate what it costs to retrain into it.

Building a SaaS or marketplace?

Most projects start with a Discovery Sprint: a short, fixed-fee engagement that ends with a scoped brief and a fixed-price proposal.

Engagements from $50,000 · Two builds per year