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Guides and notes on shipping SaaS products fast.
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.