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Guides and notes on shipping SaaS products fast.
Elysia 2 vs Django 6.1, One Process Each: 14–21x per CPU-Second
We ran one seven-route API on Elysia 2 (Bun) and on Django 6.1 with Ninja, sync under Gunicorn and async under Uvicorn, one process each. On the four database routes at c=100 Elysia served 14.1–21.5x as many successful requests per CPU-second as sync Django. Async Django fell 12.6–16.2% behind sync at 500 connections, Django won the hash loop, and the runs that broke before this one are here too.
TimescaleDB vs plain Postgres: the route that fell from 25,426 requests a second to 63.3
One Elysia application over three physical layouts of the same shop: naive Postgres, hand-tuned Postgres and TimescaleDB. Where the columnstore wins, where it collapses, and the one line in the query that decides which.
Elysia 2 vs NestJS 12: Runtime +64.6%, Framework +10.6%
We moved one API from NestJS 12 on Node to Elysia 2 on Bun one layer at a time. On the database routes the runtime step bought +64.6…+81.5% throughput and the framework step +7.5…+12.7%; Elysia's own wins are memory and boot. The friction, the contention story and the hosting bill are here too.
Bun Owns the Speed, Elysia Owns the Memory: What We Learned Upgrading Every Layer at Once
We upgraded Bun, Elysia 2 beta, Next 16.3 and TS 7 on a live ecommerce+POS API and benchmarked each layer alone. The credit does not go where you'd guess.
ShipKit vs MakerKit (2026): the honest version
MakerKit is $349 and ships organizations, passkeys and MFA today. ShipKit is $149 on a Bun stack with a standalone API and merchant-of-record payments. Which gap matters depends on what you're building.
Bun in 2026: Ship Your Greenfield SaaS, Skip the Migration
Bun is ready for a greenfield SaaS backend in 2026; skip migrating a working Node app. What the canary-only v1.4 Rust rewrite means for that call.
ShipKit vs the T3 Stack: what $149 buys over free
T3 Stack is free, MIT and has 29,064 stars. ShipKit is $149. They solve different problems — here is the exact list of what you would build yourself, and when free is the right answer.
ShipKit vs ShipFast: which one, and when the answer is ShipFast
ShipFast is $199 and has sold to 8,380 makers. ShipKit is $149 and is new. A comparison written by the people who sell one of them, with every claim sourced.
Clerk vs Better Auth in 2026: The Honest Migration Math
Migrate off Clerk only when an operational trigger is live: 100K MRU costs ~$1,025/mo since the 2026 repricing; the move takes about two engineer-weeks.