Betting harder than ever for remote work
MarsBased was founded twelve years ago as a remote-first company not out of convenience, but out of conviction. Long before remote work became mainstream, we deliberately chose to build an officeless company around trust, autonomy, and life balance.
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Replacing jQuery with React: a pragmatic migration plan (with real estimates)
Legacy frontends rarely fail loudly. They fail quietly: slower iteration, harder UI changes, more edge-case bugs, and a growing sense that every improvement costs too much. That is usually the moment teams consider moving from a jQuery-heavy UI to a component-based frontend like React.
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Why have we forbidden agentic browsers at MarsBased?
Agentic browsers are untamed. A diamond in the rough. As such, they need polishing before we fully utilise them in a safe way. In the meantime, we are not using them at MarsBased.
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Introducing GPTApps, by MarsBased
We're launching a new brand to help our clients further with their AI journey, laser-focused on MCP server & ChatGPT/Gemini app development.
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Calm entrepreneurship
We have to normalise calm entrepreneurship. The culture of grinding is dead.
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Are you prepared for NIS2?
The new European directive is coming into full effect, and we wanted to be prepared for it so we can help you.
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AI is creating MORE jobs
I keep hearing that “AI is killing developer jobs.” Let’s zoom out and see whether that is actually true.
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Quantum and AI galore at Corporate Innovation Summit 2025
We celebrated the 4th edition of Corporate Innovation Summit in Barcelona and this is what we learnt about Quantum Computing and AI.
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Small teams beat Goliaths
Team size matters as much as who is doing what in a project. Oftentimes, companies overbloat their development teams to give more entity to their projects, but it ends up happening otherwise.
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How to manage expectations in software projects
Business thrives on flexibility. We share six practical tips, from asking ‘why?’ to daily feedback, that shape our approach at MarsBased. Simple, insightful, and with some fun gifs - why not?
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Balance of our first year building AI projects
We have been building AI-based projects for 18 months now, so we wanted to share a few of the learnings and cool things we have built in this blog post.
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MarsBased supports Mobile World Congress
On February 28th and 29th 2024, the Mobile World Congress 2024 edition hosted a hackathon designed by MarsBased, to promote GSMA's Open Gateway. MarsBased has helped conceptualising and devising this part of the event as well as selecting speakers for their tracks for senior developers in a joint effort to attract more senior talent from the IT and software fields.
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